Diary March 10, 1942

03-1942, Diary WW2, War Diary, Year 1942 / 1 minute of reading

Lieutenant-General Joseph W Stillwell (1883-1946). ‘Vinegar Joe’ was an obvious choice to be senior US military representative in China; he had studied the language in Peking in the 1920s, and had been US military attaché 1935-39.

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, March 10, 1942:

Far East

China: Lieutenant-General ‘Vinegar Joe’ Stilwell, US Army, appointed CoS by Chiang Kai-shek.

Sea War

Pacific: US carrier planes strike Japanese shipping at Lae and Salamaua. Japanese land at Buka (Bougainville), Solomon Islands.

Air War

Germany: 134 RAF bombers attacking Essen and dropping 225t of bombs

Home Fronts

Hungary: Kallay succeeds Bardossy as Prime Minister.
Britain: Eden reports to House of Commons on Japanese outrages following capture of Hong Kong (December 25, 1941) including massacre of hospital staff and patients.

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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.