Diary January 20, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, January 20, 1942: Southeast Asia Burma: JAPANESE INVADE BURMA. Sea War Pacific: 2 Japanese submarines shell Midway Island. Japanese carrier planes bomb Rabaul (New Britain). …
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Diary January 19, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Monday, January 19, 1942: Eastern Front Fall of Mozhaisk (night 19-20): Russian Guards and tank units capture town after house-to-house fighting. Germans retreating west towards Vyazma, …
Diary January 18, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Sunday, January 18, 1942: Air War Eastern Front: Russian parachute brigade and airborne regiment land behind German lines south of Vyazma (January 18-24). Eastern Front On …
Diary January 17, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Saturday, January 17, 1942: Air War China: American Volunteer Group led by General Chennault claims to have destroyed 90 Japanese planes over southwest China and Burma …
Diary January 16, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Friday, January 16, 1942: Home Fronts Russia: Russian High Command publishes contents of document found at Klin, northwest of Moscow and signed by F.M. von Reichenau, …
Diary January 15, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Thursday, January 15, 1942: Eastern Front Central sector: Russians troops recapture Selijarovo, northwest of Rzhev. Politics Pan-American Conference (January 15-23): Argentina objects to American proposal that …
Diary January 14, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, January 14, 1942: Eastern Front Southern sector: Russian armoured spearheads only 13 km from Kharkov. Central sector: Russian troops recapture Medya, west of Maloyaroslavets. Sea …
Diary January 13, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, January 13, 1942: Eastern Front Russians now in complete control of railway from Maloyaroslavets south to Kaluga. Russians recapture Kirov, southeast of Smolensk, and Dorokhovo, …
Diary January 12, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Monday, January 12, 1942: Sea War Mediterranean: U-boat U-374 sunk by British submarine Unbeaten off Catania (Sicily). Politics Japan: Government declares war on Netherlands East Indies. …
Diary January 11, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Sunday, January 11, 1942: Southeast Asia Malaya: Japanese take Kuala Lumpur. Eastern Front Russians recapture Liudinovo, southwest of Kaluga, Tikhonovo Pustyn railway junction, northwest of Kaluga …
Diary January 10, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Saturday, January 10, 1942: Southeast Asia East Indies: Japanese land on Tarakan Island (night January 10-11). Dutch Martin bombers make repeated attacks on invasion fleet. Wavell …
Diary January 9, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Friday, January 9, 1942: Eastern Front 3 Russian ‘Fronts’ (groups of armies, each army equal to a German corps) make deep penetration west and southwest of …
Diary January 8, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Thursday, January 8, 1942: Eastern Front Central Sector: South of Mozhaisk, Russian troops recapture Mosalsk, Vetchino and Serpeysk; north of Mozhaisk, Zhukov‘s forces have recaptured 51 …
Diary January 7, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, January 7, 1942: Eastern Front Central Sector: Russian troops advancing north and south of Mozhaisk. On the southern flank they recapture Meshchovsk. China Japanese admit …
Diary January 6, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, January 6, 1942: Eastern Front Siege of Leningrad: Russians recapture Hogland Island, Gulf of Finland after crossing ice. Spanish volunteer Blue Division, fighting on Leningrad …
