
Pacific
New Guinea: Australian troops with Matilda tanks assault Sattelberg.
Diary for Monday, August 4, 1941: Air War South African Air Force bombs Gondar – last Italian stronghold in East Africa (and also on August…
Diary for Tuesday, August 5, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: Guderian liquidate Smolensk–Orsha ‘pocket’. SIEGE OF ODESSA by Rumanian-German forces begins (ends October 16). Rumanians…
Diary for Wednesday, August 6, 1941: Russian Front Operation Barbarossa: Special communique issued by German High Command claims that Wehrmacht has inflicted ‘annihilating blows unique…

