
Air War
Mediterranean: US bombers raid Bari airfield, southern Italy.
Diary for Friday, September 5, 1941: Air War Norway: RAF B-17 Flying Fortresses attack pocket-battleship Admiral Scheer in Oslo Fjord (further abortive raid September 8).
Diary for Saturday, September 6, 1941: Russian Front Leningrad encircled. Germans capture Schlusselburg, 40 km east of Leningrad, at junction of river Neva and lake…
Diary for Sunday, September 7, 1941: Sea War Baltic: Russian battleship Marat – trapped at Leningrad – bombards German forces attempting to encircle city. Bombardment…


