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Russian Front
In the face of local Soviet counterattacks, German Army Group North assumes a defensive posture
   Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1944

Stavka assembling reserve forces for counteroffensive against Army Group Center, including 1st Shock Army, 10th Army, and 20th Army
   Battle for Moscow, October - December 1941
   Soviet winter offensive, November 1941 - May 1942
   Stavka

German 3rd Panzer Group captures bridge over Moscow-Volga canal near Yakhroma
   Battle for Moscow, October - December 1941

German 2nd Panzer Army pushing north from Venev
   Battle for Moscow, October - December 1941

Soviet warships bombard German positions around Sevastopol
   Crimea campaigns, 1941-1942
   Naval operations in the Black Sea

Black Sea
Three Soviet tankers and an icebreaker, escorted as far as the Bosphorus by a flotilla leader and two destroyers, depart Batum for the Far East
   Naval operations in the Black Sea

Germany
Unsuccessful test of Me-262 jet fighter prototype
   Air operations in Northwest Europe, 1939-1944
   Me 262 jet fighters

In Berlin, Anti-Comintern Pact renewed: Germany, Italy, Japan, Manchukuo, Nanking government, Hungary, Spain, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, Rumania, Slovakia
   Germany: International relations
   Axis nations

Denmark
Protest in Denmark over forced adherence to Anti-Comintern Pact
   Germany: Occupied territories
   Denmark: Home front and occupation
   Denmark: Occupation, collaboration, and resistance

France
RAF Bomber Command sends 18 aircraft to attack Brest overnight
   Strategic bombing of Germany and occupied Europe
   Air operations in Northwest Europe, 1939-1944
   Bomber Command: Operations and missions

RAF Bomber Command sends 17 aircraft to attack Cherbourg overnight
   Strategic bombing of Germany and occupied Europe
   Air operations in Northwest Europe, 1939-1944
   Bomber Command: Operations and missions

RAF Fighter Command Rhubarb operations
   Air operations in Northwest Europe, 1939-1944
   Fighter Command / 2nd Tactical Air Force: Operations and missions

English Channel
Kriegsmarine patrol vessel V-412 sunk by RN MTB off Dunkirk
   Naval operations in Northwest European waters, 1939-1944

United Kingdom
Convoy ON 40 departs Liverpool
   Atlantic convoys

Convoy OG 77 departs Liverpool for Gibraltar
   Atlantic convoys

Mediterranean Sea
Italian minesweeper Zirona damaged by RAF aircraft at Benghazi and beached
   Naval operations in the Mediterranean, 1939-1942
   Air operations in North Africa and the Mediterranean, 1939-1942

German vessel Tinos sunk by RAF aircraft at Benghazi
   Naval operations in the Mediterranean, 1939-1942
   Air operations in North Africa and the Mediterranean, 1939-1942

Italian vessel Attilio Deffenu sunk by RN submarine Thrasher
   Naval operations in the Mediterranean, 1939-1942

RN battleship Barham sunk by U-331 off coast of Egypt with loss of over 800 crewmen
   Naval operations in the Mediterranean, 1939-1942
   The U-Boat war, 1939-1945

Western Desert
Operation Crusader: 15th and 21st Panzer Divisions maneuvering around Sidi Omar and Sollum
   Operation Crusader, November 1941 - January 1942
   Twenty-First Panzer Division

RAF aircraft attack German panzers and motor vehicles
   Operation Crusader, November 1941 - January 1942
   Air operations in North Africa and the Mediterranean, 1939-1942

RAF attacks Benghazi overnight with 25 bombers
   Operation Crusader, November 1941 - January 1942
   Air operations in North Africa and the Mediterranean, 1939-1942

Chile
President Pedro Aguirre Cerda dies of tuberculosis
   Chile

Jeronimo Mendez Arancibia assumes office as provisional president until elections can be conducted
   Chile

Aleutian Islands
IJN submarine I-26 scouts Kiska Island
   North Pacific Area operations, 1941-1945
   Naval operations in the North Pacific Area, 1941-1945


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: 25
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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