WW2 War Diary for Friday, February 19, 1943: Air War Western Europe: Special equipped RAF Army Co-op. Cmnd. planes (Lysander) bomb electrical transformer stations in Loire Valley. Germany: 181 RAF […]
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WW2 War Diary for Thursday, February 18, 1943: Home Fronts Germany: Goebbels calls upon German people to wage ‘Total War’ in histrionic speech at Berlin Sportpalast. Hans and Sophie Scholl,
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WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, February 17, 1943: Sea War North Sea: 15 German E-boats lay mines off Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft; S-71 rammed and sunk by destroyer Garth (night
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WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, February 16, 1943: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Kharkov recaptured by Red Army. Home Fronts Germany – The Munich Students’ ‘Revolt’: Gauleiter Geisler of Bavaria harangues
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WW2 War Diary for Monday, February 15, 1943: Air War Germany: 207 RAF bombers attacking Cologne and dropping 513t of bombs. Western Europe: Allied bombers raid Dunkirk harbour. RAF night
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WW2 War Diary for Sunday, February 14, 1943: Africa Tunisia – BATTLE OF KASSERINE PASS (February 14-25): Rommel launches surprise counter-offensive (Operation Fruehlingswind = ‘Spring Wind’). Panzers supported by Stukas
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WW2 War Diary for Saturday, February 13, 1943: Air War Western Europe: RAF night raid on Lorient U-boat base (1,000 t bombs).
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WW2 War Diary for Friday, February 12, 1943: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Russian troops recapture Krasnodar (Kuban).
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WW2 War Diary for Thursday, February 11, 1943: Air War Germany: First of 3 heavy RAF night raids on Wilhelmshaven during February (421t bombs dropped by 137 bombers in the
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WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, February 10, 1943: Sea War Norwegian submarine Urred disappears off Bodo. RAF ‘Whirlibombers’ hit German disguised raider Coronel as she attempts to break out into
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WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, February 9, 1943: Sea War Mediterranean: First of 7 troop convoys leave South Italy with powerful reinforcements for Axis forces in Tunisia (February 9 –
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WW2 War Diary for Monday, February 8, 1943: Home Fronts Germany: Himmler orders special precautions to be taken at concentration camps, to prevent mass escapes in the event of air
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WW2 War Diary for Sunday, February 7, 1943: Sea War Atlantic: 6 ships of strongly escorted Convoy SC.118 sunk by U-boat U 402.
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WW2 War Diary for Saturday, February 6, 1943: Air War Pacific: 26 of 70 Japanese shot down by 37 Allied fighters over Wau (New Guinea)
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WW2 War Diary for Friday, February 5, 1943: Air War Pacific: Heavy incendiary raid by US bombers on Rabaul airfields. Sea War Black Sea: Second Russian landing operation near Novorossisk;
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