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Arctic Ocean
German vessel Bessheim sunk by mine
   Naval operations in Arctic waters

Russian Front
German 4th Panzer Group attacking toward Moscow
   Battle for Moscow, October - December 1941

German 2nd Panzer Army attacking toward Moscow
   Battle for Moscow, October - December 1941

Soviet 9th Army and 37th Army continue attacking flank of German 1st Panzer Army
   Soviet winter offensive, November 1941 - May 1942

German 1st Panzer Army fighting in Rostov
   Operation Barbarossa, June - December 1941

Ukraine
German occupation authorities begin halting activities of Ukrainian National Movement and executing some members
   Russo-German War, 1941-1945: Politics and diplomacy
   Germany: Occupied territories
   Ukraine: Occupation, collaboration, and resistance

Baltic Sea
Soviet vessel Azimut sunk by mine
   Naval operations in the Baltic Sea

Soviet minesweeper T-35 sunk by mine
   Naval operations in the Baltic Sea

Germany
The Grand Mufti meets with Hitler to request formal recognition of independence of Arab states
   Near East Campaigns, 1940-1945: Politics and diplomacy
   Haj Amin el-Husseini
   Adolf Hitler

United Kingdom
Convoy ON 39 departs Liverpool
   Atlantic convoys

Italy
Convoy departs Naples for Tripoli with two vessels escorted by Italian destroyer Da Recco and torpedo boat Cozenz
   Naval operations in the Mediterranean, 1939-1942

Western Desert
Operation Crusader: New Zealand 2nd Infantry Division captures Fort Capuzzo
   Operation Crusader, November 1941 - January 1942
   Second New Zealand Division

Operation Crusader: British 70th Infantry Division attacks eastward from Tobruk to link up with 8th Army
   Operation Crusader, November 1941 - January 1942
   Siege of Tobruk, 1941

Operation Crusader: Confused fighting by German 15th and 21st Panzer Divisions against British 7th Armored Division between Tobruk and Sidi Rezegh
   Operation Crusader, November 1941 - January 1942
   Seventh Armored Division (British)
   Twenty-First Panzer Division

Ethiopia
Italian garrison surrenders at Kulkaber southeast of Gondar
   Italian East Africa campaigns, 1940-1941

United States
Lend-Lease extended to Iceland
   Lend-Lease
   Iceland

Pensacola convoy: USN reinforcement convoy for the Philippines departs San Francisco with eight vessels escorted by cruiser Pensacola
   United States: Navies, seapower, and naval operations

Canada
Convoy HX 161 departs Halifax for Liverpool
   Atlantic convoys


Dates are local to the time zone in which the event occurred, but discrepancies and inconsistencies abound throughout the sources, especially when events ocurred shortly before or after midnight.

Entries on file for this date: 18
Total entries on file: 60,291
Updated: 21:34 Pacific Time on 15 May 2013

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Principal sources for this War Diary
Alden. U.S. Submarine Attacks during World War II
Argyle. Chronology of World War II
Brown. Warship Losses of World War Two
Browning. US Merchant Vessel Casualties of World War II
Carter and Mueller. Combat Chronology, 1941-1945
Cressman. The Official Chronology of the US Navy in World War II
Edelheit and Edelheit. A World in Turmoil
Foreman. Fighter Command War Diaries (five volumes)
Goralski. World War II Almanac, 1931-1945
Hague. The Allied Convoy System
Hammel. Air War Europa
Hammel. Air War Pacific
Hauner. Hitler: A Chronology of His Life and Time
Kay. Chronology: New Zealand in the War, 1939-1946
Middlebrook and Everitt. Bomber Command War Diaries
Niestle. German U-Boat Losses during World War II
Rohwer. Allied Submarine Attacks of World War Two
Rohwer. Axis Submarine Successes of World War Two
Rohwer. Chronology of the War at Sea
Salmaggi and Pallavisini. 2194 Days of War
Sommerville. World War II Day by Day
Swain. A Chronology of Australian Armed Forces at War, 1939-45
Taylor. Barbarossa to Berlin (two volumes)
Williams. Chronology, 1941-1945
Young. Britain's Sea War

Various other Chronology volumes also served as sources.

Many additional volumes were consulted for specific topics.
 

 

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