Diary March 15, 1943

03-1943, Diary WW2, War Diary, Year 1943 / 1 minute of reading

Field Marshall Erich von Manstein, the most brilliant German military leader in WW2. He was the architect of the *Blitzkrieg* against France and despite outnumbered 1:10 he defeated the Red Army after the battle of Stalingrad and recaptured Kharkov.

strong>WW2 War Diary for Monday, March 15, 1943:

Eastern Front

Southern Sector: Kharkov recaptured by Germans.

Air War

Eastern Front: Russians bomb German pontoon bridges over river Don.
Pacific: Australian and Dutch bombers drive off Japanese convoy approaching Aru Islands (East Indies).

Sea War

Pacific: US 7th Fleet formed in Southwest Pacific.
Channel: British MTBs sink 2 transports in convoy off Terschelling.
Atlantic: Troop transport Empress of Canada (21,500t) sunk by Italian submarine Leonardo da Vinci.

Politics

Finnish-German trade agreement.

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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.