The Red Army opens its winter offensive with a pincer movement round Stalingrad with the aim of encircling and destroying the German forces fighting in Stalingrad. The survivors are captured by the Germans, questioned, tortured and shot, although they were all in uniform. Two RAF Horsa gliders carrying 34 British Royal Engineer Commandos, crashes in Norway en route to their mission of destroying the German ‘heavy water’ plant at Telemark. Laval is given absolute power by Vichy in Africa.īritish troops engage a German tank column only 30 miles from Tunis. First sea battle off Guadalcanal in the Pacific begins in confusion.ġ4th November 1942 N/A 15th November 1942 Another night action off Guadalcanal costs the US Navy three destroyers for Japanese battleship Kirishma.ġ6th November 1942 US and Australian forces join up for the assault on the last Japanese stronghold in Northern Papua, the Buna-Gona bridgehead.ġ7th November 1942 British paratroops engage German troops in Tunisia, while the first clashes occur between the newly landed U.S. The Eighth Army captures Tobruk and Montgomery says: ‘We have completely smashed the German and Italian armies’. 12th November 1942 The British 8th Army retakes Sollum and Bardia, while Panzer Army Afrika continues its withdrawal toward Tripoli. The United States extends Lend-Lease aid to the Free French Forces under General de Gaulle. The 13th Panzer-Division of 3rd Panzer Corps begins to disengage its units halted before Ordshonikidse to avoid being cut off by the heavy Soviet attacks against its communications. 6th Army launches its last major attack to capture Stalingrad and succeeds in reaching the Volga near the Red October factory on a frontage of 600 yards. In a letter to Marshal Petain, Hitler declares that the purpose of this move is "to protect France" against the allies. German forces begin the occupation of those parts of France controlled by the Vichy government. Work has been done to update the 1942 Eastern Europe Timeline with more detailed information about the German Summer Offensive codenamed "Fall Blau". Through to 1945, which gives a fascinating insight into the War 2, by military theatre and in chronological order from 1939 Website includes an exhaustive day by day timeline, More than 60 million people had lost their lives and most of EuropeĪnd large parts of Asia lay in ruins. World War 2 involvedĮvery major world power in a war for global domination and at On land, sea and in the air, Poles fought Germans, Italians foughtĪmericans and Japanese fought Australians in a conflict whichįinally settled with the use of nuclear weapons. Infested jungles of Burma to the coral reefed islands of the Mountains of Norway to the sweltering deserts of Libya, the insect The Hedgerows of Normandy to the streets of Stalingrad, the War, fought over many thousand of square kilometres followed. Germany and within a week, Australia, New Zealand, Canada andĪfrica had also joined the war. The evening of September 3rd, Britain and France were at war with Years ago on September 1st 1939, Germany invaded Poland without War 2, the most titanic conflict in history. Modern world is still living with the consequences of World
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