Diary WW2

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, November 8, 1942: Sea War Mediterranean: OPERATION TORCH – ALLIED LANDINGS IN FRENCH NORTH AFRICA. 3 powerful Allied Task Forces, including US battleships Massachusetts and […]

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, November 7, 1942: Sea War Mediterranean: U-boats and Italian submarines attack Allied Task Forces engaged in Operation Torch (November 7-15). 7 transports sunk and 3

WW2 War Diary for Friday, November 6, 1942: Africa Western Desert: Heavy rain slows down 8th Army mechanized columns and gives Rommel brief respite.

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, November 5, 1942: Africa Western Desert: Rommel attempts to make a stand at Fuka, 113 km west of El Alamein, but once again his lines

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, November 4, 1942: Air War North Africa: Allied bombers and fighter-bombers wreak havoc among hordes of German and Italian vehicles and infantry retreating westwards from

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, November 3, 1942: Africa Western Desert: Montgomery breaks through Rommel’s scratch defences west of Alamein. Pacific Solomons: Japanese reinforcements land east and west of Henderson

WW2 War Diary for Monday, November 2, 1942: Africa Western Desert: ALLIED VICTORY AT ALAMEIN. Phase 2 of Battle – Operation Supercharge: 8th Army compels Axis army to withdraw from

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, November 1, 1942: Pacific Solomons: US Marines launch counter-offensive on Guadalcanal. Home Fronts Brazil – Currency changes: Cruzeiro of 100 Centavos replaces the Milreis of

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, October 31, 1942: Air War Britain: German fighter-bomber raid on Canterbury: 68 Jabos, escorted by 68 fighters (3 lost), approach target, but balloon barrage hampers

WW2 War Diary for Friday, October 30, 1942: Sea War Atlantic: Transport President Doumer (11,900 t.) sunk by U-boat U-604 off northwest Africa.

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, October 29, 1942: Home Fronts USA: ‘Alaska Highway’ opened, running 2,689 km from Dawson Creek (BC) to Fairbanks (begun March 1941). Africa Madagascar: East African

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, October 28, 1942: Air War Alamein: Allied bombers break up attempted Panzer counter-attacks at Alamein. Greek aircraft raid Italian positions.

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, October 27, 1942: Air War North Africa: Allied fighters rout large force of Stukas, attempting to bomb British forward positions west of Alamein.

WW2 War Diary for Monday, October 26, 1942: Sea War Pacific: BATTLE OF SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS. Japanese carriers approach Guadalcanal in anticipation of the capture of Henderson Field and sink

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, October 24, 1942: Air War Mediterranean: DAYLIGHT RAID ON MILAN by 88 Lancaster bombers (3 lost), flying unescorted at low altitude: great damage to railway

WW2 War Diary for Friday, October 23, 1942: Africa Egypt: SECOND BATTLE OF ALAMEIN. Montgomery launches all-out offensive against Axis line in Western Desert – preceded by greatest artillery barrage

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, October 22, 1942: Secret War Northwest Africa: Lieutenant-General Mark Clark lands on North African coast from British sub Seraph and contacts pro-Allied French Officers (night

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, October 21, 1942: Air War Germany: RAF P-51 Mustang fighters strafe barges on Dortmund-Ems Canal. Western Europe: 8th USAAF B-17 Fortress bonbers raid Lorient U-boat

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, October 20, 1942: Air War Mediterranean: Fighter-bomber raids on Malta. Italian 4-engined night raiders intercepted by RAF fighters over Gibraltar and forced to jettison bombs