02-1943

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, February 28, 1943: Home Fronts Germany: GUDERIAN APPOINTED ‘INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF ARMOURED TROOPS’, responsible directly to Hitler and with wide-ranging powers to re-equip, re-train and re-vitalize […]

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, February 27, 1943: Africa Tunisia – Battle of Hunt’s Gap (February 27-March 2): Kampfgruppe Lang (‘battle group including Tiger tanks and Panzer-Grenadiers) attempts to drive

WW2 War Diary for Friday, February 26, 1943: Africa Tunisia – Operation Ochsenkopf (‘Oxhead’): Germans launch multi-pronged counter-offensive and attempt to encircle Medjez. Sea War Channel: German E-boats attack convoy

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, February 25, 1943: Sea War Atlantic: Five-day battle of Convoy ON.166 ends, 15 out of 49 ships sunk; U-boat U-606 lost. Home Fronts New Zealand:

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, February 24, 1943: Africa Tunisia: Allied planes harry German forces withdrawing through Kasserine Pass; Italian rearguards destroyed, many being captured.

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, February 23, 1943: Sea War Atlantic: U-boat group Rochen (‘Castles’) torpedoes 7 tankers from Convoy UC.1 (February 23-24). Acoustic homing torpedoes used. Home Fronts USSR:

WW2 War Diary for Monday, February 22, 1943: Sea War Atlantic: US Navy reveals 850 Americans killed or missing when U-boats sank 2 passenger-cargo ships.

WW2 War Diary for Thurday, February 21, 1943: Sea War Pacific – Operation Cleanslate: Americans land on Russell Island, north of Guadalcanal.

WW2 War Diary for Friday, February 19, 1943: Air War Western Europe: Special equipped RAF Army Co-op. Cmnd. planes (Lysander) bomb electrical transformer stations in Loire Valley. Germany: 181 RAF

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, February 18, 1943: Home Fronts Germany: Goebbels calls upon German people to wage ‘Total War’ in histrionic speech at Berlin Sportpalast. Hans and Sophie Scholl,

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, February 17, 1943: Sea War North Sea: 15 German E-boats lay mines off Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft; S-71 rammed and sunk by destroyer Garth (night

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, February 16, 1943: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Kharkov recaptured by Red Army. Home Fronts Germany – The Munich Students’ ‘Revolt’: Gauleiter Geisler of Bavaria harangues

WW2 War Diary for Monday, February 15, 1943: Air War Germany: 207 RAF bombers attacking Cologne and dropping 513t of bombs. Western Europe: Allied bombers raid Dunkirk harbour. RAF night

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, February 14, 1943: Africa Tunisia – BATTLE OF KASSERINE PASS (February 14-25): Rommel launches surprise counter-offensive (Operation Fruehlingswind = ‘Spring Wind’). Panzers supported by Stukas

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, February 13, 1943: Air War Western Europe: RAF night raid on Lorient U-boat base (1,000 t bombs).

WW2 War Diary for Friday, February 12, 1943: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Russian troops recapture Krasnodar (Kuban).

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, February 11, 1943: Air War Germany: First of 3 heavy RAF night raids on Wilhelmshaven during February (421t bombs dropped by 137 bombers in the

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, February 10, 1943: Sea War Norwegian submarine Urred disappears off Bodo. RAF ‘Whirlibombers’ hit German disguised raider Coronel as she attempts to break out into

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, February 9, 1943: Sea War Mediterranean: First of 7 troop convoys leave South Italy with powerful reinforcements for Axis forces in Tunisia (February 9 –

WW2 War Diary for Monday, February 8, 1943: Home Fronts Germany: Himmler orders special precautions to be taken at concentration camps, to prevent mass escapes in the event of air