
Eastern Front
Operation Barbarossa: German troops capture Kursk.
Diary for Tuesday, July 15, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: BATTLE OF SMOLENSK. Germans encircle 300,000 Russian troops in Smolensk–Orsha pocket.
Diary for Wednesday, July 16, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: Stalin‘s son, Lieutenant Jacob Dzhugashvili, captured by German soldiers. Sea War Baltic: Russian battleship Oktyabrskaya…
Diary for Thursday, July 17, 1941: Neutrals Spain: General Franco makes speech condemning US refusal to sell urgently needed supplies of wheat to Spain and…

