Year 1942

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, September 22, 1942: Eastern Front Stalingrad: Germans take the Stalingrad grain silo after a week’s fighting. Africa Madagascar: East African Brigade and artillery break through […]

WW2 War Diary for Monday, September 21, 1942: Southeast Asia Burma: British begin first land counter-offensive against Japanese, in the Arakan (area along Bay of Bengal coast).

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, September 20, 1942: Air War Germany: RAF bombers attacking Munich. North Africa: Tobruk raided by Allied bombers for seventh time in 8 nights.

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, September 19, 1942: Air War Eastern Front: 30 Finnish bombers despatched to Lavansaari Island (Gulf of Finland); many aircraft lose their way in thick fog

WW2 War Diary for Friday, September 18, 1942: Sea War Madagascar – Operation Jane: British brigade lands at Tamatave, on east coast.

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, September 17, 1942: Occupied Territories Norway: Quisling reintroduced capital punishment in Norway. Africa Madagascar: Vichy Governor-General Annet rejects British armistice terms. Home Fronts USA: Roosevelt

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, September 16, 1942: Eastern Front Stalingrad: Rodimtsev Division recaptures Mamai Hill, but suffers appalling casualties (fighting continues on and around Hill until January 1943). Air

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, September 15, 1942: Sea War Pacific: US carrier Wasp sunk by Japanese submarine I-19, south of Guadalcanal; new battleship North Carolina damaged by torpedo. Eastern

WW2 War Diary for Monday, September 14, 1942: Africa Western Desert – Operation Agreement: combined operations against Tobruk by seaborne and land-based commandos fails disastrously. Stukas sink anti-aircraft cruiser Coventry,

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, Septenber 13, 1942: Eastern Front FINAL GERMAN OFFENSIVE AT STALINGRAD: Savage hand-to-hand fighting continues in city until November 18. Pacific Solomons – BATTLE OF BLOODY

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, September 12, 1942: Eastern Front Stalingrad: General Chuikov appointed GOC Russian 62nd Army which is defending the city. Sea War Atlantic – LACONIA INCIDENT: Liner

WW2 War Diary for Friday, September 11, 1942: Pacific New Guinea: Japanese troops advance on Port Moresby halted at Ioribaiwa, 51 km north. Home Fronts USA: 12 workers killed and

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, September 10, 1942: Air War Germany: 476 RAF bombers (including 174 bomber/trainers) make second concentrated 50-minutes night raid on Duesseldorf (31 bombers lost). Sea War

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, September 9, 1942: Air War Western Europe: ‘Whirlibombers’ (Whirlwind 2-engined fighter-bombers) sink 2 German armed trawlers near Alderney Island. Occupied Territories France: Germans introduce military

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, September 8, 1942: Sea War Channel: British MGBs engage German coastal convoys off Cherbourg and in Straits of Dover. German shore batteries open fire at

World War One Diary for Saturday, September 8, 1917: Western Front Verdun: French troops capture Fosses, Caurieres and Chaume Woods with 800 PoWs. Eastern Front Russia: ABORTIVE KORNILOV PETROGRAD COUP

WW2 War Diary for Monday, September 7, 1942: Air War Germany: 185 RAF bombers attacking Duisburg and dropping 491t of bombs. Politics Italy: Government declares war on Brazil.

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, September 6, 1942: Home Fronts Britain: British and German cross-Channel guns exchange fire for an hour. Air War Britain: Debut of Me 210 fighter-bomber: 2

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, September 5, 1942: Sea War Pacific: JAPANESE EVACUATE MILNE BAY (New Guinea). Japanese fast destroyers land reinforcements and essential supplies on Guadalcanal (night 5-6). US

WW2 War Diary for Friday, September 4, 1942: Eastern Front Stalingrad: Fierce fighting on outskirts of the city from September 4 to 13: Germans reach then Volga south of city,