Diary WW2

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, September 8, 1942: Sea War Channel: British MGBs engage German coastal convoys off Cherbourg and in Straits of Dover. German shore batteries open fire at […]

World War One Diary for Saturday, September 8, 1917: Western Front Verdun: French troops capture Fosses, Caurieres and Chaume Woods with 800 PoWs. Eastern Front Russia: ABORTIVE KORNILOV PETROGRAD COUP

WW2 War Diary for Monday, September 7, 1942: Air War Germany: 185 RAF bombers attacking Duisburg and dropping 491t of bombs. Politics Italy: Government declares war on Brazil.

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, September 6, 1942: Home Fronts Britain: British and German cross-Channel guns exchange fire for an hour. Air War Britain: Debut of Me 210 fighter-bomber: 2

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, September 5, 1942: Sea War Pacific: JAPANESE EVACUATE MILNE BAY (New Guinea). Japanese fast destroyers land reinforcements and essential supplies on Guadalcanal (night 5-6). US

WW2 War Diary for Friday, September 4, 1942: Eastern Front Stalingrad: Fierce fighting on outskirts of the city from September 4 to 13: Germans reach then Volga south of city,

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, September 3, 1942: Home Fronts Australia – ‘Austerity Campaign’: new restrictions on entertainments and sports; increased taxes on alcoholic drinks and tobacco. Neutrals Spain: Pro-Axis

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, September 2, 1942: Home Fronts Germany: German High Command threatens to put all British prisoners captured at Dieppe in chains, as a reprisal for murdering

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, September 1, 1942: Sea War Atlantic: USN and RAF Catalinas defeat all attacks on Convoy SC.97 by U-boat group Vorwaerts (‘Onward’); U-756 sunk. Home Front

WW2 War Diary for Monday, August 31, 1942: Sea War Pacific: Carrier Saratoga torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-26 in Solomons. Merchant shipping losses in August 1942: 106 Allied ships with

World War One Diary for Sunday, August 30, 1942: Africa Alamein – BATTLE OF ALAM HALFA (August 30-September 4): Rommel attempts to outflank El Alamein ‘Line’, but his Panzers are

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, August 29, 1942: Air War Germany: Russian night raids on Berlin and Koenigsberg.

WW2 War Diary for Friday, August 28, 1942: Sea War Pacific: Seaplane, launched from Japanese submarine I-25, drops incendiaries over Oregon forest (night August 28-29; repeated September 9-10). Air War

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, August 27, 1942: Occupied Territories France: Hitler orders release of 800 French PoWs as reward for ‘exemplary conduct’ of civil population during Allied raid on

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, August 26, 1942: Pacific New Guinea: Japanese land at Milne Bay, southeast of Port Moresby. Air War Germany: Russian night raids on Berlin, August 26-27

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, August 25, 1942: Eastern Front Stalingrad: Communist Party Committee of city proclaims state of siege: ‘We shall never surrender the city of our birth; every

WW2 War Diary for Monday, August 24, 1942: Air War North Africa: Stripped-down Spitfire destroys Ju 86R high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft over Suez Canal. Sea War Pacific – BATTLE OF THE

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, August 23, 1942: Air War Eastern Front – STALINGRAD ‘TERROR’ RAID: 600 German bombers, Stukas and Ju 52 bomber/transports attack city throughout night August 23-24

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, August 22, 1942: Eastern Front Stalingrad: Panzers make narrow breach in Russian line at Vertyachi, north of the city. Home Fronts USA: Death of Michael