Diary WW2

Diary for Saturday, April 19, 1941: Air War Britain: Massive night raids on London. 712 sorties; 1,180 t. bombs; 2 aircraft lost. Total casualties (April 16-17 and 19-20): 2,300 killed, […]

Diary for Friday, April 18, 1941: Air War Germany: First flight of Me 262 fighter, powered by Junkers piston engine (the specified pair of jet engines cannot be installed until

Diary for Monday, April 17, 1941: Balkans YUGOSLAV ARMY CAPITULATES: Generals Bodi (Yugoslav) and Weichs (German) sign armistice in Belgrade. King Peter escapes from Kotor in RAF Sunderland flying boat.

Diary for Wednesday, April 16, 1941: Air War Britain: Massive night raids on London. Approx. 300 bombers (6 lost) make 2-3 sorties each (total sorties 685), dropping over 1,000t of

Diary for Tuesday, April 15, 1941: North Africa Rommel’s Afrika Korps drives into Egypt, capturing Sollum and moving through Halfaya Pass. Air War Britain: Heavy night raid on Belfast, North

Diary for Monday, April 14, 1941: Politics King Farouk of Egypt sends a secret message to Hitler, via Egyptian Minister in Iran, expressing hope that Germany will ‘soon liberate Egypt

Diary for Sunday, April 13, 1941: North Africa FIRST SIEGE OF TOBRUK begins (until December 17, 1941): Australian 9th Divison (General Morshead) repels Rommel’s Panzers (April 14, 17, 19 and

Diary for Saturday, April 12, 1941: Balkans Germans enter Belgrade. North Africa Rommel captures Bardia.

Diary for Friday, April 11, 1941: Balkans Italian and Hungarian forces invade Yugoslavia.

Diary for Thursday, April 10, 1941: Balkans Germans capture Zagreb and Monastir. Pavelich and Kvaternik, leaders of Croat freedom organization, the Ustachi, proclaim the separation kingdom of Yugoslavia. Occupied countries

Diary for Wednesday, April 9, 1941: Air War Europe: RAF night raid on Berlin; State Opera House gutted by fire. (Hitler furious ! ) Balkans Germans enter Salonika. Politics Yugoslav

Diary for Tuesday, April 8, 1941: East Africa British and Free French troops capture port of Massawa. Air War Britain: Second ‘Blitz’ on Coventry. 230 aircraft drop 330 t. of

Diary for Monday, April 7, 1941: Balkans Germans capture Skopje, southern Yugoslavia. North Africa Rommel captures Derna and two important British Generals (Neame and O’Connor). Home Fronts Britain: Government Budget

Diary for Sunday, April 6, 1941: Balkans GERMAN INVASION OF YUGOSLAVIA AND GREECE: Germans employ 15 divisions (with 5 Panzer divisions) and 800 aircraft. Yugoslav Government flees from Belgrade to

Diary for Saturday, April 5, 1941: North Africa Rommel captures Barce, east of Benghazi. East Africa South African and Commonwealth troops capture Addis Ababa, capital of Italian East Africa. Politics

Diary for Friday, April 4, 1941: North Africa Rommel captures Benghazi. Sea War Atlantic: Disguised German raider Thor sinks armed merchant cruiser Voltaire (13,300 t.). Politics Japanese Foreign Minister, Matsuoka,

Diary for Thursday, April 3, 1941: Politics Britain breaks off diplomatic relations with Hungary. German diplomats leave Belgrade.

Diary for Wednesday, April 2, 1941: Air War Maiden flight of Heinkel He 280 – world’s first experimental jet fighter – at Rostock, Germany. Blenheim bombers attack shipping off Dutch

Diary for Tuesday, April 1, 1941: Sea War Tankers San Conrado and Hidlefjord bombed and sunk by He 111 bombers in Bristol channel. East Africa British capture Asmara (Eritrea). Occupied

Diary for Monday, March 31, 1941: North Africa Rommel breaks through British defences at Mersa Brega, near El Agheila. British withdraw, abandoning 50 armoured cars and 30 light tanks. Sea