Diary November 30, 1941
WW2 War Diary for Sunday, November 30, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: Hitler vetoes withdrawal from Rostov. Rundstedt resigns; replaced as commander of Army Group South by Reichenau. Occupied Territories …
WW2 War Diary for Sunday, November 30, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: Hitler vetoes withdrawal from Rostov. Rundstedt resigns; replaced as commander of Army Group South by Reichenau. Occupied Territories …
WW2 War Diary for Saturday, November 29, 1941: North Africa Operation Crusader: Rommel counter-attacks; heavy fighting develops between Tobruk and Sidi Rezegh.
WW2 War Diary for Friday, November 28, 1941: North Africa Operation Crusader: General von Ravenstein, Commander of 21st Panzer division, captured when Bren gunner shoots up his staff car.
WW2 War Diary for Thursday, November 27, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: German offensive stalls only 30 km from Moscow. East Africa Ethiopia: 20,000 Italian troops surrender at Gondar. Liberation …
WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, November 25, 1941: Sea War Mediterranean: Battleship Barham sunk by U-boat U-331 off Bardia (862 killed in magazine explosion). Sea War Pacific: US Navy orders …
WW2 War Diary for Friday, November 24, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: German troops capture Solnechaya Gora, 48 km northwest of Moscow. Sea War Atlantic: Cruiser HMS Dunedin sunk by …
WW2 War Diary for Sunday, November 23, 1941: Home Fronts Britain: Death of P.C. Wren, author of ‘Beau Geste’, aged 56.
WW2 War Diary for Saturday, November 22, 1941: Home Fronts Germany: General Moelders, fighter ace (115 victories), killed in air accident near Breslau (Silesia); aged 30. Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: …
WW2 War Diary for Friday, November 21, 1941: Sea War Mediterranean – 2 Italian cruisers torpedoed and damaged: Trieste by British submarine Utmost and Luigi di Savoia Duca Degli Abruzzi …
WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, November 20, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa – Siege of Leningrad (Day 74): personal food ration cut for fifth time since early September. Politics USA: …
WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, November 19, 1941: Sea War Indian Ocean: Battle off Shark Bay (West Australia) between disguised raider Kormoran and cruiser Sydney, both ships crippled – Sydney …
WW2 War Diary for Saturday, November 18, 1941: North Africa OPERATION CRUSADER: British 8th Army launch successful counter-offensive in Western Desert. Rommel smashes South African 5th Brigade, then retreats (November …
WW2 War Diary for Monday, November 17, 1941: Occupied Territories Russia: Alfred Rosenberg, author of the Nazi ‘bible’, ‘The Myth of the Twentieth Century‘, appointed Minister for Occupied Eastern Territories. …
WW2 War Diary for Sunday, November 16, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: German troops take Kerch (Crimea).
WW2 War Diary for Saturday, November 15, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: After the mud is frozen the German units, under von Bock, resume direct advance on Moscow. Sea War …