Diary WW2

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, May 13, 1942: Sea War Atlantic: British MTBs sink torpedo boats Iltis and Seeadler (200 killed) escorting disguised raider Stier from Rotterdam to Bordeaux; MTB […]

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, May 12, 1942: Eastern Front Ukraine: Russian ‘South-West Front’ (Army Group, approx. equal to a German or Anglo-American Army) launches counter-offensive from Barvenkovo Salient, south

WW2 War Diary for Monday, May 11, 1942: Sea War Mediterranean: British destroyers Lively, Kipling and Jackal bombed by Ju 88 bombers west of Alexandria. Sister ship Jervis rescues 630

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, May 10, 1942: Home Fronts Britain: Churchill warns Germany in broadcast that Britain will retaliate if poison gas is used on Russian Front (unknown to

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, May 9, 1942: Eastern Front BATTLE OF KHARKOV: The front line sways back and forth in East Ukraine throughout May and June, before Germans finally

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, May 8, 1942: Home Fronts Britain: Sinclair, Secretary for Air, declares at Birmingham that the RAF does not wish to destroy historic German cities but

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, May 7, 1942: Home Fronts Germany: State Armaments Council (Ruestungsrat) formed under Speer with Milch (Luftwaffe), 3 generals, 1 admiral and 8 representatives of the

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, May 6, 1942: Pacific Philippines – FALL OF CORREGIDOR and US forts in Manila Bay: Japanese take 12,495 prisoners, including Generals Wainwright and King. Philippines

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, May 5, 1942: Pacific Philippines: Japanese storm troops cross narrow strait from Bataan Peninsula to Corregidor and establish beachhead in the face of desperate US-Filipino

WW2 War Diary for Monday, May 4, 1942: Sea War Pacific – BATTLE OF THE CORAL SEA (May 4-8): First carrier-versus-carrier naval battle (opposing surface ships never exchange fire). US

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, May 3, 1942: Air War Britain – ‘Baedeker’ Raid on Exeter: 90 aircraft (7 lost) start conflagration in city centre. Cathedral and 9 churches wrecked;

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, May 2, 1942: Southeast Asia Burma: FALL OF MANDALAY to the Japanese. Pacific Philippines: Japanese 240-mm AP shell blows up powder magazine on Corregidor, hurling

WW2 War Diary for Friday, May 1, 1942: Eastern Front Siege of Leningrad: 448,694 civilians evacuated by boat across Lake Ladoga, May-November 1942. Siege of Sebastopol: May Day celebrations and

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, April 30, 1942: Sea War Arctic: Cruiser Edinburgh torpedoed by U-boat U-456. Next day she is further damaged by 3 German destroyers (1 lost); Edinburgh

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, April 29, 1942: Politics Germany: Hitler and Mussolini confer near Salzburg (April 29 and 30). Southeast Asia Burma: JAPANESE CUT BURMA ROAD by seizing town

World War One Diary for Sunday, April 29, 1917: Air War Western Front: Richthofen scores 3 victories (50th to 52nd) in 3 sorties, including one Spad with one by brother

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, April 28, 1942: Air War Mediterranean: Night raid on Alexandria (102 killed, 111 injured). Southeast Asia: Japanese incendiary raid on Lashio, at south end of

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, April 26, 1942: Home Fronts Germany: Reichstag rubber stamps Hitler‘s assumption of total dictatorial powers.

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, April 25, 1942: Air War Eastern Front: Heavy raid on Leningrad. North Africa: Free French Bretagne bomber squadron attacks Italian outposts in South Libya.

WW2 War Diary for Friday, April 24, 1942: Air War Eastern Front – Operation Goetz von Berlichingen: Russian cruiser Kirov receives further damage from Luftwaffe at Leningrad. Home Fronts Canada: