Year 1941

Diary for Sunday, September 21, 1941: Air War Siege of Leningrad: 60 Ju 87 Stukas make repeated attacks on Russian Baltic Fleet in Kronstadt Harbour, near Leningrad (September 21-24): battleship […]

Diary for Saturday, September 20, 1941: Sea War Mediterranean: Italian ‘human torpedo’, launched from submarine Scire, sinks a naval tanker at Gibraltar.

Diary for Friday, September 19, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: German troops capture Kiev. Retreating Russians have carried out many demolitions and planted innumerable mines and time-bombs. Occupied Territories Yugoslavia:

Diary for Thursday, September 18, 1941: Russian Front Operation Barbarossa, Siege of Leningrad: German artillery fire seriously damages Russian battleship Petropavlovsk in Kronstadt Harbour. Sea War Mediterranean: Italian troopships Neptunia

Diary for Wednesday, September 17, 1941: Air War Eastern Front: RAF Hawker Hurricane wing in action over near Murmansk in northern Russia. Middle East Iran: Russians troops enter Teheran. Sea

Diary for Tuesday, September 16, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa – Siege of Leningrad: Transfer of Panzer divisions from Army Group North to Army Group Centre begins. Hitler declares that

Diary for Monday, September 15, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa – BATTLE OF KIEV: Panzer spearheads of Guderian (Army Group Centre) and Kleist (Army Group South) meet at Lochvitsa, east

Diary for Sunday, September 14, 1941: Secret War Finland: 3 German minesweepers sabotaged in Helsinki dockyard.

Diary for Saturday, September 13, 1941: Neutrals Japan: Japanese Combined Fleet completes rigorous 4-day exercise in North Pacific.

Diary for Friday, September 12, 1941: Russian Front Russians withdraw from Chernigov, key town mid-way between Kiev and Gomel. First snow reported on Eastern Front.

Diary for Thursday, September 11, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa, Siege of Leningrad: General Zhukov replaces Voroshilov as Leningrad Defence Commander – he immediately rouses the dispirited garrison to greater

Diary for Wednesday, September 10, 1941: Sea War Pacific: New Zealand naval forces renamed ‘Royal New Zealand Navy’.

Diary for Tuesday, September 9, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa, Siege of Leningrad: Finns halt on northern outskirts of Leningrad (Finnish CinC having refused German demands to assist in the

Diary for Monday, September 8, 1941: Russian Front Operation Barbarossa, SIEGE OF LENINGRAD (Day 1): Panzers of German Army Group North reach shore of Lake Ladoga, east of the city;

Diary for Sunday, September 7, 1941: Sea War Baltic: Russian battleship Marat – trapped at Leningrad – bombards German forces attempting to encircle city. Bombardment supplemented by sister ship Oktyabrskaya

Diary for Saturday, September 6, 1941: Russian Front Leningrad encircled. Germans capture Schlusselburg, 40 km east of Leningrad, at junction of river Neva and lake Ladoga. Home Fronts Hungary: General

Diary for Friday, September 5, 1941: Air War Norway: RAF B-17 Flying Fortresses attack pocket-battleship Admiral Scheer in Oslo Fjord (further abortive raid September 8).

Diary for Thursday, September 4, 1941: Air War Germany: Russian night raid on Berlin (1 aircraft lost); 30 killed, 72 injured. Sea War Atlantic: Greer Incident. US destroyer/a> Greer attacked

Diary for Wednesday, September 3, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: Russians counter-attack in Smolensk sector.

Diary for Tuesday, September 2, 1941: Home Front Italy: Fascist newspaper Il Popolo d’Italia reports that Hitler and Mussolini propose to unify Continent and foster ‘harmonious co-operation of all European