Diary January 20, 1942

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

Japanese troops on elephants — For the invasion of Burma the Japanese were also using elephants.

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, January 20, 1942:

Southeast Asia

Burma: JAPANESE INVADE BURMA.

Sea War

Pacific: 2 Japanese submarines shell Midway Island. Japanese carrier planes bomb Rabaul (New Britain). Minelaying submarine I-124 sunk off Darwin by USS Edsall and Australian warships.
‘China Force’ (3 cruisers, 6 destroyers and 2 sloops) formed to escort Allied convoys between Singapore and East Indies.

Home Fronts

Germany – WANNSEE CONFERENCE (Berlin): Heydrich outlines Hitler‘s plans for ‘Final Solution’ of Jewish ‘Problem’ – all European Jews to be deported to Eastern Europe, to either die from forced labour or be liquidated.

Eastern Front

Russians recapture Toropetz, northeast of Velikie Luki.

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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.