Year 1942

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, November 21, 1942: Air War Mediterranean: B-17 Fortress and P-38 Lighhtnings raid Tunis Airport. Southeast Asia: RAF bombers hit fuel dump on Mingaladon airfield, Burma.

WW2 War Diary for Friday, November 20, 1942: Africa Western Desert: Benghazi captured by 8th Army. Home Fronts Hungary: Death of Count Leopold von Berchtold, notorious Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister at

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, November 19, 1942: Eastern Front Stalingrad: ZHUKOV LAUNCHES SURPRISE COUNTER-OFFENSIVE AT STALINGRAD (Operation Uranus) employing 3 fronts, totalling 10 armies and 1 tank army (900

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, November 18, 1942: Africa Northwest Africa: British 1st Army (actually only amounting to 1 division) advancing in 3 columns and along coast road and mountain

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, November 17, 1942: Air War Northwest Africa: British paratroopers land at Souk-el-Arba airfield, commandeer French motor transport and leave at top speed for Bizerta.

WW2 War Diary for Monday, November 16, 1942: Pacific New Guinea: American and Australian troops begin assault on Japanese fortress of Buna. Air War Southeast Asia: US bombers raid Bangkok.

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, November 15, 1942: Africa Northwest Africa: British troops enter Tunisia. Sea War Atlantic: Escort carrier Avenger sunk by U-boat U 155 west of Gibraltar. Pacific:

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, November 14, 1942: Sea War Pacific: 7 of 11 Japanese transports, carrying reinforcements to Guadalcanal, sunk by US planes from carrier Enterprise and Henderson Field.

WW2 War Diary for Friday, November 13, 1942: Air War Northwest Africa: Strong formations of RAF Eastern Air Command land at Bone (and on November 14); Luftwaffe carry out heavy

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, November 12, 1942: Air War Northwest Africa: British paratroops dropped on Bone airfield, Algeria, by US C-47s – narrowly forestalling a planned German paratroop drop.

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, November 11, 1942: Sea War Mediterranean: Troopship Viceroy of India (19,600 t.) sunk by U-boat U-407 off North African coast. Atlantic – all 25 available

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, November 10, 1942: Home Fronts Britain: Churchill describes 8th Army’s ‘glorious and decisive victory’ over Rommel in speech at London’s Mansion House. Secret War Switzerland:

WW2 War Diary for Monday, November 9, 1942: Africa Northwest Africa: Cease-fire in French North Africa arranged by Admiral Darlan and Lieutenant-General. Mark Clark. General Giraud arrives in Algeria to

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, November 8, 1942: Sea War Mediterranean: OPERATION TORCH – ALLIED LANDINGS IN FRENCH NORTH AFRICA. 3 powerful Allied Task Forces, including US battleships Massachusetts and

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, November 7, 1942: Sea War Mediterranean: U-boats and Italian submarines attack Allied Task Forces engaged in Operation Torch (November 7-15). 7 transports sunk and 3

WW2 War Diary for Friday, November 6, 1942: Africa Western Desert: Heavy rain slows down 8th Army mechanized columns and gives Rommel brief respite.

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, November 5, 1942: Africa Western Desert: Rommel attempts to make a stand at Fuka, 113 km west of El Alamein, but once again his lines

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, November 4, 1942: Air War North Africa: Allied bombers and fighter-bombers wreak havoc among hordes of German and Italian vehicles and infantry retreating westwards from

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, November 3, 1942: Africa Western Desert: Montgomery breaks through Rommel’s scratch defences west of Alamein. Pacific Solomons: Japanese reinforcements land east and west of Henderson

WW2 War Diary for Monday, November 2, 1942: Africa Western Desert: ALLIED VICTORY AT ALAMEIN. Phase 2 of Battle – Operation Supercharge: 8th Army compels Axis army to withdraw from