Diary November 21, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Saturday, November 21, 1942: Air War Mediterranean: B-17 Fortress and P-38 Lighhtnings raid Tunis Airport. Southeast Asia: RAF bombers hit fuel dump on Mingaladon airfield, Burma.
Diary November 21, 1917
World War One Diary for Wednesday, November 21, 1917: Western Front Cambrai: British advance to Cambrai resumed and with 12 tanks captures Cantaing (300 PoWs) and Tadpole Copse; 2 tanks
Diary November 20, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Friday, November 20, 1942: Africa Western Desert: Benghazi captured by 8th Army. Home Fronts Hungary: Death of Count Leopold von Berchtold, notorious Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister at
Diary November 20, 1917
World War One Diary for Tuesday, November 20, 1917: Western Front Cambrai – BATTLE OF CAMBRAI (until December 3). FIRST MASSED TANK ATTACK: Reinforced British Third Army (Byng) with 19
Diary November 19, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Thursday, November 19, 1942: Eastern Front Stalingrad: ZHUKOV LAUNCHES SURPRISE COUNTER-OFFENSIVE AT STALINGRAD (Operation Uranus) employing 3 fronts, totalling 10 armies and 1 tank army (900
Diary November 19, 1917
World War One Diary for Monday, November 19, 1917: Western Front Cambrai: British Tank Corps, moved up by train, begins to move to start line (night November 19-20). Flanders: German
Diary November 18, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, November 18, 1942: Africa Northwest Africa: British 1st Army (actually only amounting to 1 division) advancing in 3 columns and along coast road and mountain
Diary November 18, 1917
World War One Diary for Sunday, November 18, 1917: Middle East Mesopotamia: Death of Maude of cholera in Baghdad, aged 53. Lieutenant-General Marshall succeeds, has 69,500 men and 302 guns
Diary November 17, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, November 17, 1942: Air War Northwest Africa: British paratroopers land at Souk-el-Arba airfield, commandeer French motor transport and leave at top speed for Bizerta.
Diary November 17, 1917
World War One Diary for Saturday, November 17, 1917: Sea War North Sea – Last cruiser action off Heligoland: Vice-Admiral T Napier’s battlecruisers Glorious, Courageous and Repulse, 8 cruisers and
Diary November 16, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Monday, November 16, 1942: Pacific New Guinea: American and Australian troops begin assault on Japanese fortress of Buna. Air War Southeast Asia: US bombers raid Bangkok.
Diary November 16, 1917
World War One Diary for Friday, November 16, 1917: Middle East Palestine: NZ Mounted Brigade occupies Jaffa and Australian Mounted Division Latrun. Turk Eighth Army behind river Auja to north.
Diary November 15, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Sunday, November 15, 1942: Africa Northwest Africa: British troops enter Tunisia. Sea War Atlantic: Escort carrier Avenger sunk by U-boat U 155 west of Gibraltar. Pacific:
Diary November 15, 1917
World War One Diary for Thursday, November 15, 1917: Middle East Palestine: Anzac Mounted Division occupies Ramleh and Ludd. Yeomanry charge against Turk rearguard at entry to Judean Hills. Eastern
Diary November 14, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Saturday, November 14, 1942: Sea War Pacific: 7 of 11 Japanese transports, carrying reinforcements to Guadalcanal, sunk by US planes from carrier Enterprise and Henderson Field.
Diary November 14, 1917
World War One Diary for Wednesday, November 14, 1917: Southern Fronts Trentino: Conrad and Krauss’ Austrians armies link up at Fonzaso. Salonika: British begin 50-mile Stavros light railway, with 4,000
Diary November 13, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Friday, November 13, 1942: Air War Northwest Africa: Strong formations of RAF Eastern Air Command land at Bone (and on November 14); Luftwaffe carry out heavy
Diary November 13, 1917
World War One Diary for Tuesday, November 13, 1917: Middle East Palestine: Allenby attacks towards Jctn Station of Jerusalem railway with 25,000 men and 136 guns against 9000 Turks with
Diary November 12, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Thursday, November 12, 1942: Air War Northwest Africa: British paratroops dropped on Bone airfield, Algeria, by US C-47s – narrowly forestalling a planned German paratroop drop.
Diary November 12, 1917
World War One Diary for Monday, November 12, 1917: Middle East Palestine: Falkenhayn drives back Australian Mounted Divusion 4 miles with 5,000 Turks (10,000 rallied at Ramleh on November 10).
