03-1942

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, March 31, 1942: Sea War Merchant shipping losses in March 1942: 106 Allied ships with 562,336 tons in Atlantic; 167 Allied ship with 271,828 tons […]

WW2 War Diary for Monday, March 30, 1942: Air War Europe: 33 Halifax bombers (5 lost) attack unsuccessful battleship Tirpitz near Trondheim. Eastern Front Only 8 of the 162 German

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, March 29, 1942: Home Fronts India: British Government publishes its constitutional proposals for India – Dominion status after war; Britain to defend sub-continent until then.

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, March 28, 1942: Sea War Arctic – Battle of Arctic Convoy PQ.13: after being scattered by storms, convoy and escort are harried by German bombers,

WW2 War Diary for Friday, March 27, 1942: Sea War Europe: ST NAZAIRE RAID (Operation Chariot). HMS Campbeltown (ex-Flush-decker destroyer USS Buchanan) deliberately rams dock gates at St Nazaire, under

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, March 26, 1942: Sea War Atlantic: American ‘Q-ship’ Atik (disguised anti U-boat hunter) sunk in fierce gun duel with the German Type IX U-boat U-123.

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, March 25, 1942: Sea War Atlantic: Italian submarine Pietro Calvi sinks 5 ships off northeast coast of Brazil (March 25 – April 12). Air War

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, March 24, 1942: Air War Southeast Asia: Major John Van Kuren Newkirk (‘Scarsdale Jack’) top fighter ‘ace’ (25 victories) of the AVG (‘Flying Tigers’) killed

WW2 War Diary for Monday, March 23, 1942: Air War Britain: Night raid on Dover. Pacific: Japanese bomb Port Moresby and Wyndham (north Australia). RAAF attack Dilli airfield, Timor. Sea

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, March 22, 1942: Sea War Mediterranean: BATTLE OF SIRTE. Italian battleship Littorio intercepts Alexandria-Malta convoy MW.10, but is denied crushing victory by Admiral Vian’s skilful

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, March 21, 1942: Air War Mediterranean: Heavy raids on Malta. Home Fronts Britain – London ‘Warship Week‘ (March 21-28): business community and public raise £

WW2 War Diary for Friday, March 20, 1942: Sea War Mediterranean: U-boat U-652 sinks British destroyers Heythrop and Jaguar north of Sollum (Egypt) (on March 20 and 26 resp.). Home

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, March 19, 1942: Southeast Asia Burma: General Slim arrives to take over command of British and Commonwealth forces. Stilwell to command Chinese 5th and 6th

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, March 18, 1942: Home Fronts Britain: Admiral Lord Mountbatten appointed Chief of Combined Operations.

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, March 17, 1942: Home Fronts Australia: MacArthur appointed Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Southwest Pacific. MacArthur promises (in Adelaide, March 20) ‘I shall return’