Diary WW2

Diary for Monday, September 24, 1945: Home Fronts USA: Elevator operators of 2,000 sky-scrapers and other buildings in Manhattan on strike.

Diary for Monday, September 23, 1940: Sea War Atlantic – DAKAR EXPEDITION (Operation Menace): Unsuccessful British-Free French attempt to occupy Dakar, Vichy stronghold in West Africa. Vichy battleship Richelieu (partially

Diary for Sunday, September 23, 1945: Politics Egypt: Government demands British withdrawal from the Sudan prior to its incorporation with Egypt.

Diary for Sunday, September 22, 1940: Neutrals Egypt: Saadist Party ministers withdraw from Coalition Government in protest against Prime Minister’s failure to declare war on Italy.

Diary for Saturday, September 22, 1945: Home Fronts Britain: Aircraft carrier Hercules launched on the Tyne (joins RIN (Royal Indian Navy) in 1961, as Vikrant).

Diary for Friday, September 21, 1940: Sea War German invasion fleet in Channel ports now totals 155 steamers, 1,277 barges, 471 tugs and 1,161 motor boats. U-boat U-100 sinks 7

Diary for Friday, September 21, 1945: Home Fronts India: Congress Party demands that Southeast Asia be freed from ‘Imperialist domination’.

Diary for Friday, September 20, 1940: Sea War Atlantic: First successful U-boat Wolf-pack operation: three of the ‘ace’ commanders – Schepke (U-100), Prien (U-47) and Kretschmer (U-99) – scatter Convoy

Diary for Thursday, September 20, 1945: Sea War Pacific: British and US warships arrive at Shanghai.

Diary for Thursday, September 19, 1940: Sea War Hitler orders dispersal of invasion fleet to reduce losses from British bombing raids. Home Fronts Britain: Waterloo railway station reopened (bombed September

Diary for Wednesday, September 19, 1945: Occupied countries Indo-China: British and French forces suppress Vietnamese nationalist insurgents at Saigon. Home Fronts Britain: ‘Lord Haw-Haw‘ sentenced to death at the Old

Diary for Wednesday, September 18, 1940: North Africa Italian 10th Army halts near Sidi Barrani, Egypt (captured September 16), and remains inactive for next 3 months because of ‘supply difficulties’

Diary for Tuesday, September 18, 1945: Home Fronts USA: Henry L. Stimson resigns as Secretary for War; succeeded by RB. Patterson.

Diary for Tuesday, September 17, 1940: Air War Large formations of Me 109Es carry out sweeps over Kent. Germans lose 8 aircraft; RAF, 5 fighters. Night raiders (total 268) destroy

Diary for Monday, September 17, 1945: Occupied countries Germany: Josef Kramer and 44 other SS officers stand trial at Lüneburg on charges of conspiracy to commit mass murder at Auschwitz

Diary for Monday, September 16, 1940: Air War Minor daylight raids on Southeast England (bad weather). Night raids on London by 150 aircraft; damage in West End. Göring orders fresh

Diary for Sunday, September 16, 1945: Hong Kong Surrender of Japanese forces at Hong Kong.

Diary for Sunday, September 15, 1940: Air War BATTLE OF BRITAIN SUNDAY: Two major raids on London smashed by RAF, which claims 185 ‘kills’; Germans actually lose 53 aircraft, plus

Diary for Saturday, September 15, 1945: Home Fronts USA: Hurricane ravages South Florida and Bahamas; 366 planes and 25 blimps destroyed at Richmond Naval Air Station, Florida.

Diary for Saturday, September 14, 1940: Air War Bombs dropped on Kingston, Wimbledon, Brighton, Eastbourne, Ipswich and in Northwestern England. These relatively successful daylight raids in cloudy weather encourage Göring