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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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
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WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, October 29, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: German forces invade Crimea.
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WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, October 28, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: German troops reach Volokolamsk, northwest of Moscow.
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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.
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WW2 War Diary for Sunday, October 26, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: Germans break through Perekop Isthmus into the Crimea.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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).
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