Diary November 4, 1942

11-1942, Diary WW2, War Diary, Year 1942 / 1 minute of reading

General Thoma meets Montgomery — General Thoma (right), briefly at the beginning of the battle of Alamein commander of the Panzerarmee Afrika, allowed deliberately to capture himself on this day. Here he meets the unmilitary-casually dressed Montgomery (left).

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, November 4, 1942:

Air War

North Africa: Allied bombers and fighter-bombers wreak havoc among hordes of German and Italian vehicles and infantry retreating westwards from Alamein. After a single (abortive) Stuka raid, the Axis air forces remain inactive on their bomb-cratered airstrips.

Secret War

Britain: British Merchant Seaman Duncan Scott-Ford, who admitted taking £18 from a Nazi agent in Lisbon, Portugal, hanged at Wandsworth Prison, London, after secret Old Bailey trial under 1940 Treachery Act.

Second Alamein Losses:

	Soldiers	Tanks	Guns	Planes
British 8th Army	13,560 (inc. 2,350 dead, 2,260 missing)	500	110	97
Axis Panzerarmee Afrika	55,000 (25,000 dead and wounded; 30,000 PoWs-inc 10,724 Germans)	320	1,000	84

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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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