Year 1942

WW2 War Diary for Monday, July 6, 1942: Sea War Atlantic: U-boat U-132 attacks convoy in Gulf of St Lawrence and sinks 3 ships. Air War Britain: Incendiary raid on […]

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, July 5, 1942: Eastern Front Ukraine: Germans reach river Don, near Voronezh. Sea War Pacific: 4 Japanese destroyers torpedoed by US submarines off Aleutian Islands.

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, July 4, 1942: Sea War Arctic: DESTRUCTION OF ARCTIC CONVOY PQ.17. Following damaging attacks by German torpedo planes and U-boats and threatening movements by battleship

WW2 War Diary for Friday, July 3, 1942: Eastern Front Crimea: SIEGE SEBASTOPOL ENDS. Politics Egypt: Axis Powers promise the country complete independence and national sovereignty. Air War Germany: 263

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, July 2, 1942: Eastern Front Black Sea: German Luftwaffe bombs Russian warships at Novorossisk. Politics Wheat Agreement between GB, USA, Argentina, Australia and Canada.

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, July 1, 1942: Africa Western Desert: FIRST BATTLE OF EL ALAMEIN. Rommel reaches El Alamein, having advanced 644 km in 36 days, and immediately attempts

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, June 30, 1942: Eastern Front Siege of Sebastopol: Germans break into the city. Attempted evacuation of garrison begins. Sieg of Leningrad: Colonel-General von Kuechler, German

WW2 War Diary for Monday, June 29, 1942: Africa Western Desert: Rommel takes Mersa Matruh and 6,000 PoWs. Air War Mediterranean: Mussolini flies to Derna (Libya), in aircraft marked with

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, June 28, 1942: Eastern Front Siege of Sebastopol: Germans establish bridgehead on south shore of North Bay, directly threatening Sebastopol city (night June 28-29). AXIS

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, June 27, 1942: Sea War Black Sea: Russian destroyer Tashkent evacuates 2,300 wounded and civilians from Sebastopol; she is bombed repeatedly en route to Novorossisk,

WW2 War Diary for Friday, June 26, 1942: Africa Western Desert: British 8th Army carries out ‘panic’ retreat from Mersa Matruh – unaware that Rommel’s forces are virtually exhausted. Home

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, June 25, 1942: Africa Western Desert: Auchinleck sacks Ritchie and takes personal command of 8th Army. Air War Germany: ‘THOUSAND-BOMBER’ RAID ON BREMEN. 1,006 aircraft

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, June 24, 1942: Occupied Territories Yugoslavia: In Yugoslavia 2 major offensives by German, Italian and ‘puppet’ troops (January – June 1942) force Tito’s Partisans to

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, June 23, 1942: Secret War Britain: RAF captures Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A – latest German piston-engined fighter – which the pilot lands by mistake at

WW2 War Diary for Monday, June 22, 1942: Eastern Front Rumanian casualties in 12 months: 157,572. Politics USA: Litvinov, Russian Ambassador to USA, demands immediate launching of a ‘Second Front’,

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, June 21, 1942: Africa Western Desert: FALL OF TOBRUK. Germans take 32,000 prisoners (including the entire 2nd South African division with General Koppel), several hundred

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, June 20, 1942: Sea War Atlantic: Last of 8 groups of U-boats despatched to American East Coast since January 1942 fail to find ‘worthwhile targets’

WW2 War Diary for Friday, June 19, 1942: Occupied Territories Czechoslovakia: General Elias, ex-Prime Minister of ‘puppet’ regime in Bohemia-Moravia Protectorate, executed by firing squad (Elias had been arrested by

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, June 18, 1942: Eastern Front Siege of Sebastopol: German 11th Army, reinforced by elements of 17th Army, breaks through defences and reaches North Bay. Neutrals

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, June 17, 1942: Africa Western Desert: British 8th Army withdraws east of Tobruk. Sea War Destroyer Wild Swan shoots down 6 of 12 German bombers.