Diary WW2

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, February 17, 1943: Sea War North Sea: 15 German E-boats lay mines off Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft; S-71 rammed and sunk by destroyer Garth (night […]

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, February 16, 1943: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Kharkov recaptured by Red Army. Home Fronts Germany – The Munich Students’ ‘Revolt’: Gauleiter Geisler of Bavaria harangues

WW2 War Diary for Monday, February 15, 1943: Air War Germany: 207 RAF bombers attacking Cologne and dropping 513t of bombs. Western Europe: Allied bombers raid Dunkirk harbour. RAF night

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, February 14, 1943: Africa Tunisia – BATTLE OF KASSERINE PASS (February 14-25): Rommel launches surprise counter-offensive (Operation Fruehlingswind = ‘Spring Wind’). Panzers supported by Stukas

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, February 13, 1943: Air War Western Europe: RAF night raid on Lorient U-boat base (1,000 t bombs).

WW2 War Diary for Friday, February 12, 1943: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Russian troops recapture Krasnodar (Kuban).

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, February 11, 1943: Air War Germany: First of 3 heavy RAF night raids on Wilhelmshaven during February (421t bombs dropped by 137 bombers in the

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, February 10, 1943: Sea War Norwegian submarine Urred disappears off Bodo. RAF ‘Whirlibombers’ hit German disguised raider Coronel as she attempts to break out into

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, February 9, 1943: Sea War Mediterranean: First of 7 troop convoys leave South Italy with powerful reinforcements for Axis forces in Tunisia (February 9 –

WW2 War Diary for Monday, February 8, 1943: Home Fronts Germany: Himmler orders special precautions to be taken at concentration camps, to prevent mass escapes in the event of air

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, February 7, 1943: Sea War Atlantic: 6 ships of strongly escorted Convoy SC.118 sunk by U-boat U 402.

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, February 6, 1943: Air War Pacific: 26 of 70 Japanese shot down by 37 Allied fighters over Wau (New Guinea)

WW2 War Diary for Friday, February 5, 1943: Air War Pacific: Heavy incendiary raid by US bombers on Rabaul airfields. Sea War Black Sea: Second Russian landing operation near Novorossisk;

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, February 4, 1943: Africa Western Desert: British 8th Army enters Tunisia. Air War Southeast Asia: RAF B-24 Liberators bomb Rangoon docks. Mediterranean: RAF night bombers

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, February 3, 1943: Air War Germany: 137 RAF bombers attacking Cologne and dropping 460t of bombs. Eastern Front Southern Sector: 3 Hungarian generals captured at

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, February 2, 1943: Eastern Front BATTLE OF STALINGRAD ENDS: 40,000 Germans surrender in northern ‘Pocket’. General Rokossovsky takes the salute at the victory parade. Stalingrad

WW2 War Diary for Monday, February 1, 1943: Sea War Mediterranean: Cruiser-minelayer Welshman sunk by U-boat U-617 off Crete. U-118 lays minefield in Straits of Gibraltar (4 ships sunk, 3

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, January 31, 1943: Eastern Front Stalingrad: Paulus surrenders at Univermag dept store; capitulation of German forces in south pocket. Air War Mediterranean: B-24 Liberators bomb

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, January 30, 1943: Air War Germany – FIRST ALLIED DAYLIGHT BOMBING RAIDS ON BERLIN: 6 RAF Mosquito bombers (1 lost) attack in 2 waves –