Diary December 31, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Thursday, December 31, 1942: Sea War Atlantic – BATTLE OF THE BARENTS SEA (Operation Regenbogen = ‘Rainbow’): Heavy cruisers Luetzow and Admiral Hipper make repeated, bungled, …
Year 1942
Diary December 30, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, December 30, 1942: Air War Western Europe: B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberators bomb Lorient U-boat base. Northwest Africa: Night raid on Casablanca by Focke-Wulf …
Diary December 29, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, December 29, 1942: Eastern Front Stalingrad: Kotelnikovo, important airfield 153 km southwest of Stalingrad, recaptured by Russians after house-to-house fighting.
Diary December 28, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Monday, December 28, 1942: Eastern Front Caucasus: Hitler orders Army Group A to withdraw from dangerously exposed salient in the Caucasus. Poltics French Northwest Africa: De …
Diary December 27, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Sunday, December 27, 1942: Air War Pacific: Japanese parachute supplies to half-starved expeditionary forces on Guadalcanal.
Diary December 26, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Saturday, December 26, 1942: Politics North Africa: Giraud appointed High Commissioner in French North Africa. Air War Southeast Asia: US 10th AAF bombers raid Lashio (Burma …
Diary December 25, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Friday, December 25, 1942: Africa Western Desert: British 8th Army captures Sirte. Eastern Front Caucasus: Russians recapture two towns near Nalchik and reopen ‘Ossetian Military Highway’.
Diary December 24, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Thursday, December 24, 1942: Eastern Front Stalingrad: Russians throw back Hoth’s Stalingrad relief force from river Myshkova to river Aksay (December 24) and Kotelnikovo (December 29). …
Diary December 23, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, December 23, 1942: Air War Western Europe: RAF Bostons and Venturas bomb St Malo and Den Helder.
Diary December 22, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, December 22, 1942: Air War Western Europe: RAF fighters, fighter-bombers and Boston light bombers make day and night attacks on rail communications in West Germany, …
Diary December 21, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Monday, December 21, 1942: Pacific New Guinea: Stuart tanks penetrate strongly held Japanese perimeter at Buna.
Diary December 20, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Sunday, December 20, 1942: Air War Western Europe: US B-17 Fortress and B-24 Liberators (6 lost), escorted by 300 Allied fighters, bomb aircraft repair depot at …
Diary December 19, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Saturday, December 19, 1942: Africa East Africa: Major-General Dan Pienaar, GOC South African Division in Libya and leader of victorious South African troops during East African …
Diary December 18, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Friday, December 18, 1942: Eastern Front Stalingrad: Hoth makes repeated attempts to force the river Myshkova, 40 km southwest of Stalingrad (December 18-23), but without success. …
Diary December 17, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Thursday, December 17, 1942: Home Fronts Britain: Foreign Minister Eden announces that Germans ‘are now carrying into effect Hitler‘s oft-repeated intention to exterminate the Jewish people …