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Category Archives: World War II
This week in the War, 16–22 February 1942: The bombing of Darwin
This week in the war, on 19 February 1942, fighters and bombers from the carrier force of Vice-Admiral Chuichi Nagumo—who in November had launched his planes against Pearl Harbour—attacked Darwin, the largest city of northern Australia. The bombing of Darwin … Continue reading
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Tagged Darwin, Nagumo
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This week in the War, 9–15 February 1942: The Fall of Singapore
This week in the war, Singapore—often described as Britain’s ‘Gibraltar of the East’—fell to the Japanese. The British commander, Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival, signed the unconditional surrender document on 15 February 1942. Over 120,000 British, Indian and Australian troops became prisoners-of-war. … Continue reading
Posted in World War II
Tagged Alan Warren, Percival, Singapore, Singapore 1942, Yamashita
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This week in the War, 2–8 February 1942: Death of Fritz Todt
This week in the war, on Sunday 8 February 1942, Reichsminister Fritz Todt was killed when the plane flying him back to Berlin crashed while taking off from the airstrip at Hitler’s Wolfsschanze headquarters in East Prussia. Todt had been … Continue reading
Posted in World War II
Tagged Albert Speer, The Wolf's Lair, Todt, Todt Organisation, Wolfsschanze
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This week in the War, 26 Jan–1 Feb 1942: The Yanks have come!
Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbour, the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland plus the Commonwealth and Empire and eventually the Soviet Union were locked in a life-and-death struggle with Hitler and his allies. After Pearl Harbour … Continue reading
Posted in World War II
Tagged 34th Infantry Division, Anzio, Ireland, Monte Cassino, Northern Ireland, Operation Torch, Red Bull, Yanks
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This week in the War, 19–25 January 1942: The Wannsee Conference
On 20 January 1942, SS-Obergruppenfuehrer Reinhard Heydrich chaired one of the most infamous meeting in the history of the world: the conference held at an elegant lake-side villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee. Those present included Gestapo Chief Heinrich … Continue reading
Posted in Book, World War II
Tagged Final Solution, Heydrich, Holocaust, Jews, Mark Roseman, The Villa the Lake the Meeting, Wannsee
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This week in the War, 12–18 January 1942: U-boats begin Operation Drum Roll
This week in the war, on 12 January 1942, the U-123 sank the British steamer Cyclops near Cape Cod. The sinking marked the opening of Doenitz’s U-boat offensive in the western Atlantic—his so-called Operation ‘Drum Roll’ (Paukenschlag). Before the end … Continue reading
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Tagged Battle of the Atlantic, Bletchley Park, Doenitz, Enigma, Operation Drum Roll, Paukenschlag, Type IX, U-boat
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This week in the War, 5–11 January 1942: The fall of Kuala Lumpur
Japanese forces were on the move throughout South-East Asia. In the Philippines, they were advancing towards the Bataan peninsula. In Malaya, Lieutenant-General Tomoyuki Yamashita’s troops crossed the River Slim on 7 January 1942 and were advancing, with armoured support, towards … Continue reading
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Tagged Bataan, Kuala Lumpur, MacArthur, Philippines, Wavell, Yamashita
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This week in the War, 22–28 December 1941: Christmas present for Saint-Pierre and Miquelon
On Christmas Day 1941, three corvettes and the submarine Surcouf of the Free French navy liberated the twin isles of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. The islands, which are located in the western Atlantic close to the coast of Newfoundland, have belonged … Continue reading
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Tagged Alain Savary, Emile Muselier, Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, Surcouf
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This week in the War, 15–21 December 1941: Italian manned torpedoes sink British battleships in Alexandria harbour
The Royal Navy was taking a hammering in the Mediterranean (to say nothing of the Far East!). Following the loss in the Med of the aircraft carrier Ark Royal and of the battleship Barham, on the night of 18/19 December … Continue reading
Posted in World War II
Tagged Alexandria, Antonio Marceglia, HMS Queen Elizabeth, HMS Valiant, human torpedo, Luigi de la Penne, manned torpedo, Vincenzo Martellotta
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