Year 1942

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’

WW2 War Diary for Monday, March 16, 1942: Home Front USA: Death of Francis Du Pont, research chemist and industrialist; aged 68.

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, March 15, 1942: Sea War Mediterranean: Cruisers Dido and Euryalus, with 6 destroyers, bombard harbour of Rhodes (night March 15-16). Home Fronts USA: Death of

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, March 14, 1942: Sea War Mediterranean: 3 Italian submarines sunk by British submarines Unbeaten, Ultimatum and Upholder (March 14-18). North Sea: German E-boats lay mines

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, March 13, 1942: Sea War Atlantic: Chilean SS Tolten torpedoed and sunk off American East coast (27 killed, 2 survivors). Occupied Territories Greece: SS Rabmanso

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, March 12, 1942: Pacific East Indies: Japanese land at Sabang, north Sumatra. Philippines: MacArthur with family and staff leaves Corregidor for Australia aboard PT boat;

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, March 11, 1942: Sea War Mediterranean: Cruiser Naiad (Admiral Vian) sunk by U-boat U-565. Home Fronts Britain: Maximum penalty for black-marketeering increased to 14 years’

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, March 10, 1942: Far East China: Lieutenant-General ‘Vinegar Joe’ Stilwell, US Army, appointed CoS by Chiang Kai-shek. Sea War Pacific: US carrier planes strike Japanese

WW2 War Diary for Monday, March 9, 1942: Southeast Asia Burma: Battle of Taukkyan. Japanese block line of retreat of British forces 32 km north of Rangoon; they defend formidable

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, March 8, 1942: Southeast Asia Burma: FALL OF RANGOON. Air War Western Europe: RAF daylight raid on Matford truck works at Poissy, near Paris. Germany

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, March 7, 1942: Air War Mediterranean: First squadron of Spitfire Mk V fighters lands in Malta after taking off from carriers Argus and Eagle south