Pacific
Solomons: US Marines launch counter-offensive on Guadalcanal.
Home Fronts
Brazil – Currency changes: Cruzeiro of 100 Centavos replaces the Milreis of 1,000 Reis.
World War One Diary for Saturday, February 2, 1918: Air War East Africa: Last 6 Royal Flying Corps planes withdrawn by February 9. Western Front…
WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, February 2, 1943: Eastern Front BATTLE OF STALINGRAD ENDS: 40,000 Germans surrender in northern ‘Pocket’. General Rokossovsky takes the salute…
World War One Diary for Sunday, February 3, 1918: Politics France: Allied Supreme War Council’s enlarged powers announced at Versailles. Sweden: Finnish Stockholm Minister on…