Diary February 9, 1943

02-1943, Diary WW2, War Diary, Year 1943 / 1 minute of reading

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 – March 22); Malta-based RAF aircraft sink 10 ships; specially laid minefields and British subs also score numerous successes (3 submarines lost).

Pacific

Guadalcanal Campaign Losses:

	Japanese	US
Killed	24,000	1,600 (only troops)
Wounded	?	4,709 (only troops)
Aircraft carriers	1	2
Battleships	2	-
Cruisers	4	8
Destroyers	11	17
MTBs	-	6
Subs	6	-
Transports	16	4

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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.

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