Diary April 18, 1942

04-1942, Diary WW2, War Diary, Year 1942 / 1 minute of reading

B-25 Mitchell launching from USS Hornet for Tokyo during the Doolittle Raid.

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, April 18, 1942:

Air War

Pacific: DOOLITTLE RAID. 16 US Army AF B-25 Mitchell bombers, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel ‘Jimmy’ Doolittle, operating from carrier Hornet, make surprise daylight raid on Tokyo, Yokosuka naval base, Nagoya, Osaka and Kobe, and crash-land in east China.
Mediterranean: Heavy daylight raid on Malta.
Germany: 113 RAF bombers attacking Hamburg and dropping 173t of bombs.

Neutrals

Vichy France: Laval forms new Cabinet at Vichy, with himself as ‘Chief of Government’, Minister of Home and Foreign Affairs; Darlan becomes Supreme Commander of Armed Forces.

Eastern Front

Siege of Leningrad: von Leeb, commanding German forces, relieved of duty.

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My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.

Air War

Neutrals

Eastern Front

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