WW2 War Diary for Thursday, September 17, 1942: Occupied Territories Norway: Quisling reintroduced capital punishment in Norway. Africa Madagascar: Vichy Governor-General Annet rejects British armistice terms. Home Fronts USA: Roosevelt […]
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WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, September 16, 1942: Eastern Front Stalingrad: Rodimtsev Division recaptures Mamai Hill, but suffers appalling casualties (fighting continues on and around Hill until January 1943). Air
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WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, September 15, 1942: Sea War Pacific: US carrier Wasp sunk by Japanese submarine I-19, south of Guadalcanal; new battleship North Carolina damaged by torpedo. Eastern
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WW2 War Diary for Monday, September 14, 1942: Africa Western Desert – Operation Agreement: combined operations against Tobruk by seaborne and land-based commandos fails disastrously. Stukas sink anti-aircraft cruiser Coventry,
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WW2 War Diary for Sunday, Septenber 13, 1942: Eastern Front FINAL GERMAN OFFENSIVE AT STALINGRAD: Savage hand-to-hand fighting continues in city until November 18. Pacific Solomons – BATTLE OF BLOODY
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WW2 War Diary for Saturday, September 12, 1942: Eastern Front Stalingrad: General Chuikov appointed GOC Russian 62nd Army which is defending the city. Sea War Atlantic – LACONIA INCIDENT: Liner
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WW2 War Diary for Friday, September 11, 1942: Pacific New Guinea: Japanese troops advance on Port Moresby halted at Ioribaiwa, 51 km north. Home Fronts USA: 12 workers killed and
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WW2 War Diary for Thursday, September 10, 1942: Air War Germany: 476 RAF bombers (including 174 bomber/trainers) make second concentrated 50-minutes night raid on Duesseldorf (31 bombers lost). Sea War
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WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, September 9, 1942: Air War Western Europe: ‘Whirlibombers’ (Whirlwind 2-engined fighter-bombers) sink 2 German armed trawlers near Alderney Island. Occupied Territories France: Germans introduce military
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WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, September 8, 1942: Sea War Channel: British MGBs engage German coastal convoys off Cherbourg and in Straits of Dover. German shore batteries open fire at
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World War One Diary for Saturday, September 8, 1917: Western Front Verdun: French troops capture Fosses, Caurieres and Chaume Woods with 800 PoWs. Eastern Front Russia: ABORTIVE KORNILOV PETROGRAD COUP
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WW2 War Diary for Monday, September 7, 1942: Air War Germany: 185 RAF bombers attacking Duisburg and dropping 491t of bombs. Politics Italy: Government declares war on Brazil.
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WW2 War Diary for Sunday, September 6, 1942: Home Fronts Britain: British and German cross-Channel guns exchange fire for an hour. Air War Britain: Debut of Me 210 fighter-bomber: 2
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WW2 War Diary for Saturday, September 5, 1942: Sea War Pacific: JAPANESE EVACUATE MILNE BAY (New Guinea). Japanese fast destroyers land reinforcements and essential supplies on Guadalcanal (night 5-6). US
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WW2 War Diary for Friday, September 4, 1942: Eastern Front Stalingrad: Fierce fighting on outskirts of the city from September 4 to 13: Germans reach then Volga south of city,
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