War Diary WW2 for Friday, December 29, 1939:
Finland
Winter War: 250 Finnish ‘suicide squad’ ski troops tear up vital Leningrad–Murmansk railway line at three points.
Saturday, January 27, 1945 Russian Front Zhukov‘s forces now only 161Â km from Berlin; Memel falls. Sea War Atlantic: 5 ships sunk by U-boat U-1232 off…
War Diary World War One for Wednesday, January 27, 1915: Western Front Argonne: French repulse attacks. Meuse: French artillery destroy German bridge at St Mihiel.…
Saturday, January 27, 1940 Home Fronts Britain: Winston Churchill (uneasy at slow increase in war production) speaks at Free Trade Hall, Manchester: ‘each to our…