Diary October 31, 1941
WW2 War Diary for Friday, October 31, 1941: Sea War Atlantic: REUBEN JAMES INCIDENT. U-boat U-552 sinks US destroyer Reuben James (part of US escort group accompanying British convoy); 95 […]
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Diary October 30, 1941
WW2 War Diary for Thursday, October 30, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL begins with great onslaught by German 11th Army and Rumanian forces on outer defence line
Diary October 29, 1941
WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, October 29, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: German forces invade Crimea.
Diary October 28, 1941
WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, October 28, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: German troops reach Volokolamsk, northwest of Moscow.
Diary October 27, 1941
WW2 War Diary for Monday, October 27, 1941: Neutrals USA – Roosevelt’s Navy Day Speech: he denounces attacks on US shipping and reveals a Nazi plot in Latin America.
Diary October 26, 1941
WW2 War Diary for Sunday, October 26, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: Germans break through Perekop Isthmus into the Crimea.
Diary October 25, 1941
WW2 War Diary for Saturday, October 25, 1941: Sea War Mediterranean: British fast cruiser-minelayer Latona sunk by Ju 87 Stukas off Bardia (night October 25-26). Politics Roosevelt and Churchill condemn
Diary October 24, 1941
WW2 War Diary for Friday, October 24, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: GERMAN TROOPS CAPTURE KHARKOV (East Ukraine). Stalin appoints Zhukov to command northern half of front; Timoshenko to direct
Diary October 23, 1941
WW2 War Diary for Thursday, October 23, 1941: Sea War Atlantic: Destroyer HMS Cossack torpedoed by U-boat U-563 (she founders, under tow, October 26). Occupied Territories Russia: In reprisals for
Diary October 22, 1941
WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, October 22, 1941: Sea War Atlantic: British naval tanker Darkdale sunk by U-boat U-68 of St Helena. Politics Rumania: Government denounces ‘Vienna Award‘ of August
Diary October 21, 1941
WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, October 21, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: Zhukov takes command of Moscow garrison. Air War Germany: 92 RAF bombers attacking Bremen and dropping 140t of
Diary October 20, 1941
WW2 War Diary for Friday, October 20, 1941: Sea War Mediterranean: Italian torpedo boats Aldebaran and Altair sink off Athens in minefield laid by submarine Rorqual (night October 20-21). Vyazma-Bryansk
Diary October 19, 1941
WW2 War Diary for Sunday, October 19, 1941: Home Fronts Russia: ‘State of siege’ declared in Moscow. Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: Germans capture Thgonrog (Donets Basin). Neutrals Afghanistan: All Axis
Diary October 18, 1941
WW2 War Diary for Saturday, October 18, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: Snow, slush and deep mud hamper German drive towards Moscow. Neutrals Japan: GENERAL TOJO FORMS CABINET. Togo, Foreign
Diary October 16, 1941
WW2 War Diary for Thursday, October 16, 1941: Home Fronts Russia: ‘MOSCOW PANIC’. Russian Government and the Diplomatic Corps leave for Kuibyshev on the Volga (Stalin remains in the capital).
Diary October 15, 1941
WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, October 15, 1941: Occupied Territories Russia: SS mobile extermination squad, Einsatzgruppe A, reports that it has shot 125,000 Jews and 5,000 Russians. Eastern Front Operation
Diary October 14, 1941
WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, October 14, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: Germans capture Mozhaysk, west of Moscow.
Diary October 13, 1941
WW2 War Diary for Monday, October 13, 1941: Sea War Baltic: Russian submarine Shch-323 attacks German light cruiser Koeln and 7 merchant ships (October 13-November 5), but sinks only one
Diary October 12, 1941
WW2 War Diary for Sunday, October 12, 1941: Sea War North Sea: German E-boats sink 2 ships in convoy off Cromer, England.
Diary October 11, 1941
WW2 War Diary for Saturday, October 11, 1941: Home Fronts Russia: Mass evacuation of women and children from Moscow; thousands of workers and students dig anti-tank ditches in outskirts.
