Diary February 23, 1942

02-1942, Diary WW2, War Diary, Year 1942 / 1 minute of reading

WW2 War Diary for Monday, February 23, 1942:

Eastern Front

Central sector: Russian troops recapture Dorogobuzh, east of Smolensk.
Southern sector: Russian troops reach river Dnieper in strength.

Politics

Mutual Aid Agreement between UK, USA, Australia and New Zealand.

Sea War

Pacific: Japanese submarine I-17 shells oil installations near Santa Barbara, California (night February 23-24).
North Sea: German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen torpedoed off Trondheim by British sub Trident.

Pacific

Philippines: Roosevelt orders General MacArthur to leave Bataan for Australia. General Wainwright takes command. MacArthur appointed C-in-C Allied Forces in Australia.

Home Fronts

Germany: Death of Prof August von Parseval, aeronautical engineer and inventor of the Parse val ‘kite balloon’ used on Western Front in World War One; aged 81.
Brazil: Stefan Zweig exiled Austrian author and his wife commit suicide at Petropolis; (Stefan) aged 60.

About The Author

Kretaner

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.