Year 1943

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, May 5, 1943: Africa Tunisia: British infantry recapture Djebel Bou Aoukaz, south of Tunis. Air War Germany: 495 RAF bombers attacking Dortmund and dropping 1,436t […]

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, May 4, 1943: Air War Western Europe: P-47 Thunderbolts escort B-17 Fortress bombers during raid on automobile factory in Antwerp. Eastern Front Southern Sector: Hitler

WW2 War Diary for Monday, May 3, 1943: Africa Tunisia: American and French troops capture Mateur. Sea War Britain: Carrier Ark Royal (II) laid down at Birkenhead (launched 1950). Air

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, May 2, 1943: Air War Britain: 68 Dornier bombers (5 lost) lay mines off estuaries of Thames and Humber in 3 night missions during May.

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, May 1, 1943: Home Fronts Britain: Dover shelled for 75 minutes. Africa Tunisia: US heavy artillery begins 3-day bombardment of Mateur, west of Tunis. Sea

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;