Diary WW2

WW2 War Diary for Friday, January 8, 1943: Eastern Front Stalingrad: Paulus rejects Rokossovsky’s surrender ultimatum. Sea War Mediterranean: British Force K (2 cruisers, 4 destroyers) harries last convoys between […]

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, January 7, 1943: Air War Mediterranean: US 9th Air Force bombs Palermo harbour (308 civilian casualties). Occupied Territories France: General Legentilhomme begins duties as High

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, January 6, 1943: Sea War Pacific – BATTLE OF HUON GULF (January 6-9): all available Allied bombers and fighters in Southwest Pacific make round-the-clock attacks

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, January 5, 1943: Africa Tunisia: US 5th Army formed under Lieutenant-General Mark W Clark. British troops storm ‘Green Hill’ but are driven off by heavy

WW2 War Diary for Monday, January 4, 1943: Sea War Pacific: TF 67 (3 US cruisers and 2 destroyers) carries out night bombardment of Munda Airfield, Solomons. Pacific Solomons: Japanese

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, January 3, 1943: Eastern Front Caucasus: Mozdok recaptured by Russians. Sea War Mediterranean: British ‘human torpedoes’ (‘Chariots’) penetrate Palermo harbour; Italian cruiser Ulpio Traiano and

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, January 2, 1943: Eastern Front Caucasus: Germans withdrawing from Caucasus. Pacific New Guinea: BUNA CAPTURED by Allied forces. Many underground bunkers destroyed one by one

WW2 War Diary for Friday, January 1, 1943: Eastern Front Central Sector: Velikie Luki rail junction, on Central Front, stormed by Russians; German garrison annihilated. Southern Sector: Russians drive towards

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, December 31, 1942: Sea War Atlantic – BATTLE OF THE BARENTS SEA (Operation Regenbogen = ‘Rainbow’): Heavy cruisers Luetzow and Admiral Hipper make repeated, bungled,

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, December 30, 1942: Air War Western Europe: B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberators bomb Lorient U-boat base. Northwest Africa: Night raid on Casablanca by Focke-Wulf

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, December 29, 1942: Eastern Front Stalingrad: Kotelnikovo, important airfield 153 km southwest of Stalingrad, recaptured by Russians after house-to-house fighting.

WW2 War Diary for Monday, December 28, 1942: Eastern Front Caucasus: Hitler orders Army Group A to withdraw from dangerously exposed salient in the Caucasus. Poltics French Northwest Africa: De

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, December 27, 1942: Air War Pacific: Japanese parachute supplies to half-starved expeditionary forces on Guadalcanal.

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, December 26, 1942: Politics North Africa: Giraud appointed High Commissioner in French North Africa. Air War Southeast Asia: US 10th AAF bombers raid Lashio (Burma

WW2 War Diary for Friday, December 25, 1942: Africa Western Desert: British 8th Army captures Sirte. Eastern Front Caucasus: Russians recapture two towns near Nalchik and reopen ‘Ossetian Military Highway’.

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, December 24, 1942: Eastern Front Stalingrad: Russians throw back Hoth’s Stalingrad relief force from river Myshkova to river Aksay (December 24) and Kotelnikovo (December 29).

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, December 23, 1942: Air War Western Europe: RAF Bostons and Venturas bomb St Malo and Den Helder.

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, December 22, 1942: Air War Western Europe: RAF fighters, fighter-bombers and Boston light bombers make day and night attacks on rail communications in West Germany,

WW2 War Diary for Monday, December 21, 1942: Pacific New Guinea: Stuart tanks penetrate strongly held Japanese perimeter at Buna.

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, December 20, 1942: Air War Western Europe: US B-17 Fortress and B-24 Liberators (6 lost), escorted by 300 Allied fighters, bomb aircraft repair depot at