Diary February 12, 1940
Diary for Monday, February 12, 1940: North Africa Australian Imperial Force and detachment of NZ troops arrive at Suez. Sea War Atlantic: U-boat U-33 sunk in the Clyde by minesweeper
War Diary
Diary February 12, 1945
Diary for Monday, February 12, 1945: Politics Peru declares war on Germany and Japan.
Diary February 12, 1915
Diary for Friday, February 12, 1915: Neutrals Holland: Protest against U-boat blockade (Sweden also on February 15). Italy: Government notifies Austria that further action in Balkans are an unfriendly act.
Diary February 11, 1915
Diary for Thursday, February 11, 1915: Air War Belgium: 3 RNAS aircraft bomb Zeebrugge and Ostend U-boat bases and coastal batteries (at least 7 killed). 30 sorties flown until February
Diary February 11, 1940
Diary for Sunday, February 11, 1940: Finland Winter War: Russians break through Mannerheim Line in Summa sector. 123rd Division overwhelms defending Finnish battalion. Finns launch desperate counter-attacks. Politics Russian-German Trade
Diary February 11, 1945
Diary for Sunday, February 11, 1945: Western Front British enter Kleve. Home Fronts Germany: Entire gold reserves (c. 100 t.) transported from Berlin to salt mine near Eisenach. Americans capture
Diary February 10, 1915
Diary for Wednesday, February 10, 1915: Western Front Germans attack Marie Therese Work in La Grurie Wood (Argonne) and Ban-de-Sapt (Alsace), repulsed at both next day. Champagne: French 60th Reserve
Diary February 10, 1940
Diary for Saturday, February 10, 1940: Western Front French communiqué reads: Rien a signaler (‘Nothing to report’). Sea War Atlantic: Six German merchant ships leave Vigo, Spain to run the
Diary February 10, 1945
Diary for Saturday, February 10, 1945: Russian Front East Prussia: Rokossovsky captures Elbing and Preussisch-Eylau. Western Front Germans open flood gates of Schwammenauel Dam on river Roer, in attempt to
Diary February 9, 1915
Diary for Tuesday, February 9, 1915: Eastern Front East Prussia: Eichhorn takes Biala and turns Russian right wing. Poland: Army Detachment Gallwitz formed, takes Serpels in northwest on February 11.
Diary February 9, 1940
Diary for Friday, February 9, 1940: Sea War North Sea: German destroyers lay mines in ‘The Wash‘, on British East coast (night February 9-10). Finland Winter War: Finns hold Russian
Diary February 9, 1945
Diary for Friday, February 9, 1945: Russian Front East Prussia: Königsberg now virtually encircled by 2nd and 3rd Belorussian Fronts. Western Front BRITISH AND CANADIANS REACH THE RHINE in strength.
Diary February 8, 1940
Diary for Thursday, February 8, 1940: Western Front Two French soldiers capture German patrol in Forbach Woods. Secret War USA: ‘Harry Sawyer’ (Sebold) arrives in New York to head German
Diary February 8, 1915
Diary for Monday, February 8, 1915: Sea War Eastern Mediterranean: British cruiser Philomel raids Bab Yunis near Alexandretta. Black Sea: Light cruiser Breslau shells Yalta (Crimea) while Russian cruisers bombard
Diary February 8, 1945
Diary for Thursday, February 8, 1945: Western Front Canadians advance into Reichswald southeast of Nijmegen, between Maas and Rhine (Operation Veritable).
Diary February 7, 1945
Diary for Wednesday, February 7, 1945: Air War Europe: RAF night attack on German forces at Kleve and Goch.
Diary February 7, 1940
Diary for Wednesday, February 7, 1940: Sea War Atlantic: Irish passenger-mail ship Munster sunk by mine in Irish Sea. Home Fronts Britain: IRA men, Barnes and Richards, executed at Winson
Diary February 7, 1915
Diary for Sunday, February 7, 1915: Eastern Front East Prussia – Winter Battle of Masuria (until February 22): Hindenburg offensive in Kaiser’s presence, takes Johannisburg next day but snow hampers.
Diary February 6, 1940
Diary for Tuesday, February 6, 1940: Home Front Britain: four people injured by IRA parcel bombs at Euston Station, London.
Diary February 6, 1915
Diary for Saturday, February 6, 1915: Western Front Flanders: British counter-mine two German sap-heads south of La Bassee Canal. Somme: Germans detonate 3 mines in La Bolsselle. Eastern Front Bukovina:
