Diary January 11, 1942

01-1942, Diary WW2, War Diary, Year 1942 / 1 minute of reading

Assault of Japanese soldiers on Kuala Lumpur.

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, January 11, 1942:

Southeast Asia

Eastern Front

Russians recapture Liudinovo, southwest of Kaluga, Tikhonovo Pustyn railway junction, northwest of Kaluga and Popovka in Donets Basin (Ukraine). Number of coal mines in the Donets are back in production.
Battle of Mozhaisk: Russians oust Germans from stronghold west of Moscow (ends January 19).

Air War

Celebes: Japanese paratroops land at Menado.
Germany: 91 RAF bombers attacking Wilhelmshaven and dropping 116t of bombs.

Sea War

Atlantic – Operation Paukenschlag (‘Drumbeat’): 5 U-boats commence operations off American East Coast – 20 ships sunk January 11 to February 7.
Pacific: US carrier Saratoga damaged by Japanese submarine I-6 off Hawaii.

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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.