WW2 War Diary for Saturday, January 31, 1942: Eastern Front Siege of Leningrad: total number of deaths from starvation, typhus, dysentery, heart failure, etc., in January-February 1942 is more than […]
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WW2 War Diary for Friday, January 30, 1942: Southeast Asia Malaya: British and Commonwealth forces withdraw to Singapore Island and blow up 1-km-Iong Causeway across Johore Street. Politics Eire: Government
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WW2 War Diary for Thursday, January 29, 1942: North Africa Rommel recaptures Benghazi. Home Fronts Britain: Churchill wins Parliamentary Vote of Confidence, 464-1. First broadcast of ‘Desert Island Discs‘ –
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WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, January 28, 1942: Air War USA: 8th USAAF formed in Georgia. Eastern Front Southern sector: Russian successes in Ukraine. Politics Brazil: Government breaks off diplomatic
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WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, January 27, 1942: Eastern Front Southern sector: Russians recapture Lozovaya, railway junction and supply base south of Kharkov. Sea War Pacific: 6 American submarines carry
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WW2 War Diary for Monday, January 26, 1942: Sea War Pacific: 68 British aircraft (13 lost) attack Japanese troop convoy off east coast of Malaya. In night January 26-27 destroyers
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WW2 War Diary for Sunday, January 25, 1942: Eastern Front Central Sector: Zhukov attempts to storm fortified town of Gzhatsk, west of Mozhaisk, but, as he had predicted, his weakened
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WW2 War Diary for Saturday, January 24, 1942: Eastern Front Southern sector: Russians recapture Barvenkovo, southeast of Kharkov. Sea War Dutch East Indies: Japanese troops land at Balikpapan and Kendari
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WW2 War Diary for Friday, January 23, 1942: Far East Malaya: Japanese within 97 km of Singapore. Sea War Pacific: Japanese troops land at Rabaul on New Britain. The small
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WW2 War Diary for Thursday, January 22, 1942: Eastern Front Siege of Leningrad: Mass evacuation of civilians via the ‘ice road’ across Lake Ladoga; 440,000 taken out, January 22-April 15,
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WW2 War Diary for Sunday, January 21, 1942: Air War Pacific: Hawker Hurricane fighters destroy 8 Japanese bombers over Singapore. Nakajima Ki-43 Oscar fighters shoot down 5 Hurricanes over Singapore.
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WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, January 20, 1942: Southeast Asia Burma: JAPANESE INVADE BURMA. Sea War Pacific: 2 Japanese submarines shell Midway Island. Japanese carrier planes bomb Rabaul (New Britain).
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WW2 War Diary for Monday, January 19, 1942: Eastern Front Fall of Mozhaisk (night 19-20): Russian Guards and tank units capture town after house-to-house fighting. Germans retreating west towards Vyazma,
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WW2 War Diary for Sunday, January 18, 1942: Air War Eastern Front: Russian parachute brigade and airborne regiment land behind German lines south of Vyazma (January 18-24). Eastern Front On
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WW2 War Diary for Saturday, January 17, 1942: Air War China: American Volunteer Group led by General Chennault claims to have destroyed 90 Japanese planes over southwest China and Burma
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