Year 1943

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, June 19, 1943: Air War Western Europe: RAF night raid on Schneider armament works at Le Creusot. Home Fronts Britain: Horse Racing; Dorothy Paget’s ‘Straight […]

WW2 War Diary for Friday, June 18, 1943: Home Fronts India: Field Marshal Wavell appointed Viceroy of India.

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, June 17, 1943: Sea War Mediterranean: Force ‘H’ (including reconstructed battleships Valiant and Warspite) transferred from Scapa Flow to Oran and Alexandria in preparation for

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, June 16, 1943: Air War Pacific: 94 Japanese aircraft (93 lost) attack shipping off Guadalcanal. Home Fronts Canada: Mme Chiang Kai-shek addresses Parliament.

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, June 15, 1943: Air War Germany: World’s first jet bomber and reconnaissance aircraft – Arado Ar 234 – tested at Rheine, near Munster. 165 RAF

WW2 War Diary for Monday, June 14, 1943: Sea War Atlantic: RAF Coastal Command (and attached Allied squadrons) begins systematic daily patrols to counter new U-boat tactics in Bay of

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, June 13, 1943: Air War Britain: Night raid on Grimsby; many ‘Butterfly’ anti-personnel bombs and incendiaries dropped; 74 killed, 130 injured.

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, June 12, 1943: Air War Germany: Devastating RAF night raid on Bochum in the Ruhr. Britain: Heavy night raid on Plymouth (repeated August 11 and

WW2 War Diary for Friday, June 11, 1943: Air War Germany: 200 B-17 Fortress (8 lost) raid Wilhelmshaven. RAF night raid on Duesseldorf (2,000 t by 693 bombers) and Munster.

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, June 10, 1943: Air War Eastern Front: 700 Russian night bombers (19 lost) raid airfields west of Kursk.

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, June 9, 1943: Air War Mediterranean: Since Pantellaria garrison still refuses to surrender, Allied Strategic and Tactical AFs redouble their bombardment. Occupied Territories Yugoslavia: Tito

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, June 8, 1943: Sea War Pacific: Battleship Mutsu destroyed by magazine explosion in Hiroshima Bay. Air War Mediterranean: Leaflets dropped on Pantellaria, calling for unconditional

WW2 War Diary for Monday, June 7, 1943: Sea War Atlantic: 8 U-boats simulate much larger ‘wolf-pack’ by transmitting frequent radio messages. U-334 and U-388 are sunk.

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, June 6, 1943: Neutrals Spain: Government proposes the establishment of ‘non-bombing zones’.

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, June 5, 1943: Home Fronts Japan: State funeral for Amiral Yamamoto in Tokyo. Sea War Atlantic: U-boat U-513 sinks 4 ships of Brazil.