Diary WW2

WW2 War Diary for Monday, July 13, 1942: Sea War Pacific: 3 Japanese submarines operate off Sydney (5 ships sunk in July to August). Secret War USA: Roosevelt creates Office […]

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, July 12, 1942: Eastern Front Stalingrad: ‘Stalingrad Front’ army group established to defend city. Home Fronts USA: Stern Park Gardens, near Joliet (Illinois), renamed ‘Lidice’

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, July 11, 1942: Air War Europe: Lancaster bombers raid Schichau U-boat yards at Danzig in thunderstorm (longest daylight raid to date); several aircraft stray over

WW2 War Diary for Friday, July 10, 1942: Sea War Atlantic: German U-boats U-160 and U-66 commence successful operations around Trinidad (15 ships sunk in 2 months).

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, July 9, 1942: Occupied Territories Holland: Anne Frank and family (Dutch Jews) go into hiding in the Prinsengacacht, a large building in centre of Amsterdam.

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, July 8, 1942: Occupied Territories France: Death of Marshal Franchet d’Esperey, hero of the Salonika Campaign, where he crushed the German-Bulgarian forces in 10 days

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, July 7, 1942: Eastern Front Ukraine: German troops capture Voronezh on river Don, 300 miles northwest of Stalingrad. Sea War Baltic: Russian marines attempt to

World War One Diary for Saturday, July 7, 1917: Air War Britain: 22 Gotha bombers (2 lost including 1 shot down, 3 written off in crash landings on return) attack

WW2 War Diary for Monday, July 6, 1942: Sea War Atlantic: U-boat U-132 attacks convoy in Gulf of St Lawrence and sinks 3 ships. Air War Britain: Incendiary raid on

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, July 5, 1942: Eastern Front Ukraine: Germans reach river Don, near Voronezh. Sea War Pacific: 4 Japanese destroyers torpedoed by US submarines off Aleutian Islands.

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, July 4, 1942: Sea War Arctic: DESTRUCTION OF ARCTIC CONVOY PQ.17. Following damaging attacks by German torpedo planes and U-boats and threatening movements by battleship

WW2 War Diary for Friday, July 3, 1942: Eastern Front Crimea: SIEGE SEBASTOPOL ENDS. Politics Egypt: Axis Powers promise the country complete independence and national sovereignty. Air War Germany: 263

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, July 2, 1942: Eastern Front Black Sea: German Luftwaffe bombs Russian warships at Novorossisk. Politics Wheat Agreement between GB, USA, Argentina, Australia and Canada.

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, July 1, 1942: Africa Western Desert: FIRST BATTLE OF EL ALAMEIN. Rommel reaches El Alamein, having advanced 644 km in 36 days, and immediately attempts

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, June 30, 1942: Eastern Front Siege of Sebastopol: Germans break into the city. Attempted evacuation of garrison begins. Sieg of Leningrad: Colonel-General von Kuechler, German

WW2 War Diary for Monday, June 29, 1942: Africa Western Desert: Rommel takes Mersa Matruh and 6,000 PoWs. Air War Mediterranean: Mussolini flies to Derna (Libya), in aircraft marked with

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, June 28, 1942: Eastern Front Siege of Sebastopol: Germans establish bridgehead on south shore of North Bay, directly threatening Sebastopol city (night June 28-29). AXIS

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, June 27, 1942: Sea War Black Sea: Russian destroyer Tashkent evacuates 2,300 wounded and civilians from Sebastopol; she is bombed repeatedly en route to Novorossisk,

WW2 War Diary for Friday, June 26, 1942: Africa Western Desert: British 8th Army carries out ‘panic’ retreat from Mersa Matruh – unaware that Rommel’s forces are virtually exhausted. Home

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, June 25, 1942: Africa Western Desert: Auchinleck sacks Ritchie and takes personal command of 8th Army. Air War Germany: ‘THOUSAND-BOMBER’ RAID ON BREMEN. 1,006 aircraft