WW2 Day by Day

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  1. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    The Gestapo executes 250 Jews in woods outside the city following the arrest of the Jewish-born Catholic resistance leader Andrzej Kott.

     
  2. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    Yay... 2000 views in here... not many comments but hey. :)

    There is an unsuccessful Finnish attack against the positions of the Soviet 122nd Division at Salla. Meanwhile, some 18,000 Soviet troops of the 18th Division have either been killed or captured while encircled north of Lake Ladoga.

     
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  3. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    Hitler reduces the "alert period" before the implementation of Operation Yellow (Fall Gelb) from 4 days to 24 hours for security reasons. #WW2

     
  4. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    Pope Pius XII condemns Nazi rule in Poland in a radio broadcast to the USA which emphasises the terror campaign against Catholic clergy.

     
  5. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    The Finns announce the formation of a Foreign Legion, including British volunteers.

     
  6. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    The battle of Taipale ends. Finnish forces have successfully resisted the Soviet attempt to break through the left flank of the Mannerheim Line in hand-to-hand fighting.

     
  7. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    There is fierce fighting reported northeast of Lake Ladoga. Finnish forces defeat the attacking Soviet troops.

     
  8. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    In Occupied Poland the "Goring-Frank Circular" is issued. It specifies that all material resources and manpower is to be ruthlessly exploited for the immediate benefit of the Reich.

     
  9. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    Officials acknowledge that of a total of 734,883 children reported to have been evacuated from London since the beginning of the war, 316,192 have returned to their homes by January 8th.

     
  10. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    Churchill (uneasy at the slow increase in war production) speaks at Free Trade Hall, Manchester: "each to our station... there is not a week, nor a day, nor and hour to be lost!"

     
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  11. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    The Finnish 9th Division attacks the Soviet 54th Division near Kuhmo and succeeds in splitting the Soviet force into three separate groups.

     
  12. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    The Polish government-in-exile in France claims that the Nazis have killed 18,000 prominent Poles during their occupation of Poland.

     
  13. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    Hitler speaks at the Berlin Sportpalast. He demands Lebensraum (living space) for Germans and ridicules Chamberlain, Churchill and Daladier. He notes that, since "they started the war, ...they will get all the war they want."

     
  14. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    A secret British military mission orders 300 Caproni Re2000 fighters. (German intervention in April effectively vetoes the deal and British attempts to obtain the fighters through a Portuguese intermediary fail with the Italian declaration of war on June 10th.)

     
  15. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    A record budget is presented to the Japanese Diet. Almost half is to be devoted to military expenditure.

     
  16. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    The Finnish army succeeds in holding the Soviet attack on the Mannerheim Line.

     
  17. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    Off the eastern coast of Britain, about 20 German bombers attack shipping, sinking 2 ships and losing 3 aircraft.

     
  18. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    The minesweeper HMS Sphinx sinks a day after being bombed by German aircraft.

     
  19. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    The Supreme War Council of the British and French allies decides to intervene in Norway and send help (in the form of aircraft and guns) to Finland. They plan to begin with landings at Narvik and three other towns on or about March 20th.

     
  20. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    At Euston Station, in London, a parcel bomb injures 4 people. Members of the IRA are reported to be responsible.

     

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