Diary for Wednesday, July 16, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: Stalin‘s son, Lieutenant Jacob Dzhugashvili, captured by German soldiers. Sea War Baltic: Russian battleship Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya and cruiser Kirov, with […]
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Diary for Tuesday, July 15, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: BATTLE OF SMOLENSK. Germans encircle 300,000 Russian troops in Smolensk–Orsha pocket.
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Diary for Monday, July 14, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: German troops reach river Luga (last great river, 90 miles before Leningrad). Middle East Syria and Lebanon: Convention of Acre
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Diary for Sunday, July 13, 1941: Air War Eastern Front: German Luftwaffe bombs Kiev; Russians attack Ploesti (Rumania). Sea War Baltic: Russian destroyers, MTBs and bombers make determined efforts to
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Diary for Saturday, July 12, 1941: Politics ANGLO-RUSSIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE PACT: including declaration that neither Britain nor Russia will make a separate peace agreement with the Axis powers.
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Diary for Friday, July 11, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: Panzers cross river Dnieper. Army Group South beats off major Russian counter-attack and threatens city of Kiev. Three new Russian
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Diary for Thursday, July 10, 1941: Neutrals USA: Roosevelt asks Congress for additional defence expenditure of $4,770 millions. US Navy warns that entrance to San Francisco harbour has been mined.
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Diary for Wednesday, July 9, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: German troops capture Vitebsk. Air War Western Europe: RAF night raids on railways at Aachen (Western Germany) and Naples (Italy).
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Diary for Tuesday, July 8, 1941: Air War Germany: First daylight operation by RAF four-engined Fortress I bombers (B-17C Flying Fortress) against Wilhelmshaven. Politics Britain: Russian Military Mission arrives in
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Diary for Monday, July 7, 1941: Sea War Atlantic: US Marines land in Iceland, from powerful naval task force, to relieve British garrison.
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Diary for Sunday, July 6, 1941: Neutrals Ecuador and Peru: Border War. Peru ousts Ecuadorian forces from two disputed areas and recaptures Matapalo Island (occupied by Ecuador in 1938); Peruvian
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Diary for Saturday, July 5, 1941: Air War Germany: RAF night raids on Munster (railway targets) and Bielefeld (power station); heavy civilian casualties.
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Diary for Friday, July 4, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: German troops capture Ostrov, south of Pskov. Air War Germany: 11 Blenheim bombers carry out daylight raid on Bremen factory
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Diary for Thursday, July 3, 1941: Home Fronts Russia – STALIN BROADCASTS ‘SCORCHED EARTH’ POLICY: ‘We must not leave … a single kilogram of grain or a single litre of
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Diary for Wednesday, July 2, 1941: Air War Western Europe: Bristol Blenheim bombers, with strong escort (includng American-volunteer ‘Eagle Squadron’), bomb airfield and rail junction near Lille.
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