04-1943

WW2 War Diary for Friday, April 30, 1943: Sea War Mediterranean: 3 Italian destroyers bombed off Tunis. During April Axis convoys transport 2,800 troops, 18,690 t supplies, 26 guns and […]

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, April 29, 1943: Africa : Tunisia: British troops recapture Sidi Abdallah. Home Fronts Germany: Hitler receives Laval, last of 5 meetings with satellite and quisling

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, April 28, 1943: Africa Tunisia: Panzers attack Djebel Bou Aoukaz; British forced to retreat, April 30. Air War Europe: Major RAF mine-laying operation in Baltic

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, April 27, 1943: Africa Tunisia: Americans storm ‘Sugar Loaf Hill’ (Jebel Azag), near Mateur. Panzers expel British from Sidi Abdallah.

WW2 War Diary for Monday, April 26, 1943: Africa Tunisia: British 1st Army captures Longstop Hill and Djebel Bou Aoukaz. Air War Germany: 557 RAF bombers despatched to Duisburg, but

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, April 25, 1943: Air War Mediterranean: US bombers raid Bari airfield, southern Italy.

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, April 24, 1943: Home Front Germany: Death of Lieutenant-General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equart, former COGS and leading anti-Nazi conspirator; aged 64. Britain: IRA leaders, McAteer and

WW2 War Diary for Friday, April 23, 1943: Africa Tunisia: After secret redeployment of 193 km behind Tunisian front, US 2nd Corps captures several wooded heights near Mateur and holds

World War One Diary for Thursday, April 22, 1943: Air War Mediterranean: 16 giant Me 323 transports shot down over Gulf of Tunis by RAF and SAAF Spitfire and P-40

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, April 21, 1943: Home Fronts USA: Roosevelt condemns beheading of US airmen captured by Japanese during ‘Doolittle Raid’. Air War Britain: Night raid on Aberdeen;

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, April 20, 1943: Africa Tunisia: British 8th Army attacks Axis positions at Enfidaville, north of Sousse. Air War Germany: RAF night raids on Berlin and

WW2 War Diary for Monday, April 19, 1943: Occupied Territories Poland – BATTLE OF WARSAW GHETTO: Following deportation of 310,000 Jews in 1942-43, SS move to destroy remaining 63,000 people,

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, April 18, 1943: Air War Pacific: DEATH OF ADMIRAL YAMAMOTO, C-in-C Japanese Combined Fleet killed during flying visit to bases in southwest Pacific. P-38 Lightning

World War One Diary for Saturday, April 17, 1943: Occupied Territories Poland: Polish Government demands Red Cross investigation of Katyn ‘Massacre’; request withdrawn April 30 under British and Soviet diplomatic

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, April 17, 1918: Western Front Germany: Ludendorff orders Aisne attack preparations by German Crown Prince. Flanders: German offensive renewed but without decisive effect; Wytschaete and

WW2 War Diary for Friday, April 16, 1943: Air War Britain: FIRST NIGHT RAID BY GERMAN FIGHTER-BOMBERS. 30 Fw 190 fighter-bombers sent to London but only 2 bombs on target.

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, April 15, 1943: Sea War Atlantic: British submarine P.615 sunk by U-boat U 123. Eastern Front Southern Sector: Hitler signs operational order for Operation Zitadelle

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, April 14, 1943: Africa Tunisia: Allied forces compress Axis perimeter in Tunisia from three sides. Air War Britain: Night raid on Chelmsford; prison set on

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, April 13, 1943: Air War Pacific: US bombers raid Kiska (Aleutian Islands) round the clock. Sea War Channel: Norwegian/British destroyer Eskdale sunk by German E-boats

World War One Diary for Friday, April 12, 1943: Occupied Territories Poland – KATYN MASSACRES: German News Agency reports discovery of mass graves of 10,000 Polish officers in Katyn Forest,