Year 1943

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, March 27, 1943: Africa Tunisia: US 34th Infantry Division makes unsuccessful assault on Fondouk Pass. Sea War Britain: Escort carrier Dasher lost in Clyde Estuary […]

WW2 War Diary for Friday, March 26, 1943: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Spring thaw halts fighting around Kharkov. Sea War Pacific – Battle of the Kommandorsky Islands: Japanese Admiral Hosogaya

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, March 25, 1943: Sea War Atlantic: 2 U-boats sunk by RAF B-17 Fortress bomber (March 25 and 27). Mediterranean: Repatriated survivors of British naval vessels

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, March 24, 1943: Air War Britain: Fighter-bomber raid on Ashford. 8 night raiders shot down over North England and South Scotland. Sea War Mediterranean: British

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, March 23, 1943: Africa Tunisia: Germans counter-attack at Mareth; British 8th Army withdraws. Sea War Mediterranean: Troopship Windsor Castle sunk by He 111 torpedo planes

WW2 War Diary for Monday, march 22, 1943: Air War Western Europe: Mosquito fighters shoot down 2 Ju 88s over Bay of Biscay. Nearly 300 night bombers attack St Nazaire.

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, March 21, 1943: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Germans recapture Belgorod, northeast of Kharkov. Spring thaw slows down operations. Sea War Atlantic: US submarine Herring sinks

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, March 20, 1943: Africa Tunisia – BATTLE OF MARETH: (March 20-28) British 8th Army attack Axis forces holding the ‘African Maginot Line’, along Tunisia-Libya border.

WW2 War Diary for Friday, March 19, 1943: Air War Mediterranean: German aircraft employ ‘circling torpedoes’ against Allied shipping in Tripoli harbour. Home Fronts USA: Frank Nitti, notorious gangster and

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, March 18, 1943: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Panzers reach Belgorod on river Donets, northeast of Kharkov. Air War Britain: 2 unsuccessful night raids on Norwich

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, March 17, 1943: Southeast Asia Burma:: Japanese launch counter-attack against British and Indian forces advancing along Arakan coast.

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, March 16, 1943: Sea War Atlantic: U-boat U-600 hits 3 ships with single salvo of ‘pattern-running’ torpedoes (FAT). Pacific: ‘Cactus Striking Force’ shells Vila.

strong>WW2 War Diary for Monday, March 15, 1943: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Kharkov recaptured by Germans. Air War Eastern Front: Russians bomb German pontoon bridges over river Don. Pacific: Australian

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, March 14, 1943: Africa French-Northwest Africa: Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York and Military Vicar of US Army and Navy, broadcasts to US Forces from

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, March 13, 1943: Far East China: Chinese counter-attack in Yangtze Valley. Eastern Front Germany: Hitler issues preliminary orders for Operation Zitadelle (‘Citadel’) – the attempted

WW2 War Diary for Friday, March 12, 1943: Sea War Arctic: Murmansk Arctic Convoys abandoned for the summer by British Admiralty following alarming reports that battlecruiser Scharnhorst has joined battleship

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, March 11, 1943: Sea War Atlantic: HMS Harvester rams U-boat U-444; the two vessels are locked together for 10 minutes. U-444 then crawls away but

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, March 10, 1943: Air War China: 14th AF formed under Major-General Claire Chennault and incorporating his ‘China Air Task Force’, formerly known as ‘Flying Tigers’.

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, March 9, 1943: Air War Germany: Night raid on Munich by 217 bombers {500 t bombs); Nymphenburg Castle damaged. Eastern Front Southern Sector: Russians withdraw

WW2 War Diary for Monday, March 8, 1943: Politics USSR: Admiral Standley, US Ambassador in Moscow, embarrasses Soviet Government by denouncing the secrecy surrounding delivery of US Lease-Lend supplies. Sea