Diary for Wednesday, February 14, 1945: Russian Front Pomerania: Zhukov captures Schneidemühl. Western Front Canadians repel four counter-attacks in Reichswald sector. Air War Europe: 8th USAAF completes Allied ‘triple blow’ […]
Partisans and Chetniks – strength, casualties and organization of irregular forces in Russia and Yugoslavia during the Second World War. Partisans in WW2 A partisan (Italian partigiano = ‘party supporter’)
Diary for Saturday, February 13, 1915: Sea War Baltic: Russian cruiser flagship Rurik grounded off Gotland after minelaying; she limps into Reval. Channel: Dover Patrol has 30 drifters barring straits
Diary for Tuesday, February 13, 1940: Sea War Atlantic: British cruiser HMS Dorsetshire intercepts German blockade-runner Wakama (scuttled) near Rio de Janeiro. Brazil makes vigorous protest.
Diary for Tuesday, February 13, 1945: Air War Germany: DESTRUCTION OF DRESDEN. 773 Lancaster bombers (5 lost) and 311 B-17 Fortress deliver ‘triple blow’ against this virtually undefended city near
The final battles in the East and the last German Orders of Battle from April 30, 1945. Army groups, armies, corps and divisions. The establishment and distribution of the divisions
Diary for Monday, February 12, 1940: North Africa Australian Imperial Force and detachment of NZ troops arrive at Suez. Sea War Atlantic: U-boat U-33 sunk in the Clyde by minesweeper
Diary for Monday, February 12, 1945: Politics Peru declares war on Germany and Japan.
Diary for Friday, February 12, 1915: Neutrals Holland: Protest against U-boat blockade (Sweden also on February 15). Italy: Government notifies Austria that further action in Balkans are an unfriendly act.
The Greek Revolutionary War of Independence of 1821. The outbreak of the Greek Revolution and the subsequent War of Independence was in 2021 in its bicentennial year. The Greek Revolution
Diary for Thursday, February 11, 1915: Air War Belgium: 3 RNAS aircraft bomb Zeebrugge and Ostend U-boat bases and coastal batteries (at least 7 killed). 30 sorties flown until February
Diary for Sunday, February 11, 1940: Finland Winter War: Russians break through Mannerheim Line in Summa sector. 123rd Division overwhelms defending Finnish battalion. Finns launch desperate counter-attacks. Politics Russian-German Trade
Diary for Sunday, February 11, 1945: Western Front British enter Kleve. Home Fronts Germany: Entire gold reserves (c. 100 t.) transported from Berlin to salt mine near Eisenach. Americans capture
Strength and organization of the Yugoslav Army, Air Force and Navy in 1941. Divisions and equipment, aircraft and types, warships. The titular head of the armed forces was the King.
Diary for Wednesday, February 10, 1915: Western Front Germans attack Marie Therese Work in La Grurie Wood (Argonne) and Ban-de-Sapt (Alsace), repulsed at both next day. Champagne: French 60th Reserve
Diary for Saturday, February 10, 1940: Western Front French communiqué reads: Rien a signaler (‘Nothing to report’). Sea War Atlantic: Six German merchant ships leave Vigo, Spain to run the
Diary for Saturday, February 10, 1945: Russian Front East Prussia: Rokossovsky captures Elbing and Preussisch-Eylau. Western Front Germans open flood gates of Schwammenauel Dam on river Roer, in attempt to
Diary for Tuesday, February 9, 1915: Eastern Front East Prussia: Eichhorn takes Biala and turns Russian right wing. Poland: Army Detachment Gallwitz formed, takes Serpels in northwest on February 11.
Diary for Friday, February 9, 1940: Sea War North Sea: German destroyers lay mines in ‘The Wash‘, on British East coast (night February 9-10). Finland Winter War: Finns hold Russian
Diary for Friday, February 9, 1945: Russian Front East Prussia: Königsberg now virtually encircled by 2nd and 3rd Belorussian Fronts. Western Front BRITISH AND CANADIANS REACH THE RHINE in strength.
