Year 1943

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, March 7, 1943: Eastern Front Central Sector: Germans retreating towards Vyazma. Sea War North Sea: Night engagement near ‘Sunk’ Lightship between German E-boats and British […]

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, March 6, 1943: Africa Tunisia – BATTLE OF MEDENINE: in his last battle in Africa, Rommel attacks 8th Army but is defeated (Montgomery warned before

WW2 War Diary for Friday, March 5, 1943: Air War Germany: BATTLE OF THE RUHR OPENS with devastating raid on Krupps Works at Essen by 367 RAF night bombers (14

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, March 4, 1943: Sea War North Sea: Unsuccessful night sortie by German E-boats off Great Yarmouth: S-70 mined and sunk; S-75 sunk by Spitfire and

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, March 3, 1943: Eastern Front Central Sector: Rzhev – German stronghold west of Moscow – stormed by Russian forces. Russians now control long stretches of

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, March 2, 1943: Sea War Pacific BATTLE OF THE BISMARCK SEA (March 2-5): Allied bombers and MTBs shatter big Japanese troop convoy off Lae (New

WW2 War Diary for Monday, March 1, 1943: Occupied Countries France: Lens-Bethune railway line closed following derailment of 40 wagons by French Resistance Group ‘Farmer’. Eastern Front Central Sector: Russians

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