WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, August 4, 1942: Home Fronts Britain: House of Commons passes Bill transferring jurisdiction over offences committed by American service-men from British civil courts to US […]
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WW2 War Diary for Monday, August 3, 1942: Air War Eatern Front: Russian naval planes attack Luftwaffe bomber base near Sea of Azov.
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WW2 War Diary for Sunday, August 2, 1942: Home Fronts India: Mahatma Gandhi warns that Indian people will welcome Japanese invasion unless British grant full independence.
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WW2 War Diary for Saturday, August 1, 1942: Sea War Indian Ocean – Operation Stab: British Eastern Fleet carries out protracted manoeuvres in Bay of Bengal in attempt to divert
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WW2 War Diary for Friday, July 31, 1942: Eastern Front Southern Russia: German troops cross river Don on wide front. Air War Germany: 630 RAF bombers (including 211 bomber-trainers) make
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WW2 War Diary for Thursday, July 30, 1942: Air War China: American P-40 fighters repulse series of Japanese raids on Hengyang air base, southwest China (July 30-31) Britain: New type
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WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, July 29, 1942: Eastern Front South Russia: Hoth’s Panzers capture Tsimlyanskaya, on river Don, west of Stalingrad. Farther south Kleist’s Panzers capture Proletarskaya. Pacific New
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WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, July 28, 1942: Home Fronts Britain: Death of Sir Matthew Flinders Petrie, archaeologist; aged 89.
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WW2 War Diary for Monday, July 27, 1942: Air War Britain: 30 German raiders, operating singly in cloudy weather over many parts of England, bomb 2 airfields, 4 factories and
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WW2 War Diary for Sunday, July 26, 1942: Air War Eastern Front: Russian 8th Air Army and 4-engined Pe-8s of the ADD (‘Long-range Bombing Force’) carry out round-the-clock operations in
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WW2 War Diary for Saturday, July 25, 1942: Eastern Front Southern Russia: Kleist’s Panzers begin crossing river Don. Africa French Northwest Africa: British and American Chiefs of Staff decide to
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WW2 War Diary for Friday, July 24, 1942: Sea War Atlantic: Admiral Doenitz, broadcasting from Berlin, describes the ever-increasing threat to his submarine operations from British and American warships and
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WW2 War Diary for Thursday, July 23, 1942: Eastern Front Southern Russia: Hitler orders simultaneous operations against Stalingrad and the Caucasus, thereby compromising the chances of capturing either objective. Hoth’s
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WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, July 22, 1942: Air War Germany: 250 RAF bombers attacking Duisburg and dropping 577t of bombs. Home Fronts India: Ban on Communist Party lifted.
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WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, July 21, 1942: Pazifik New Guinea: Japanese division lands at Buna, north of Port Moresby, which they plan to capture by advancing over Owen Stanley
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