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Soviet Union
Pravda predicts Soviet Union will defeat Germany in 1942
   Russo-German War, 1941-1945: Politics and diplomacy

Russian Front
Soviet forces capture Staritza
   Soviet winter offensive, November 1941 - May 1942

Soviet offensive opens in the Ukraine with Bryansk Front, Southwest Front, and South Front
   Soviet winter offensive, November 1941 - May 1942

German 11th Army makes unsuccessful attacks on the Soviet Feodosia bridgehead in the Crimea
   Crimea campaigns, 1941-1942

Black Sea
Soviet warships and other vessels transport parts of 386th Rifle Division from Novorossisk to Sevastopol
   Crimea campaigns, 1941-1942
   Naval operations in the Black Sea

Turkish vessel Karaltepe sunk by Soviet submarine SC-214
   Naval operations in the Black Sea

Germany
Survivors of raider Atlantis honored in Berlin and Captain Rogge awarded Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross
   Atlantis
   Germany: Military awards and recipients

Twenty-three Czech workers accused of sabotage and executed
   Germany: War crimes, atrocities, and trials

France
Petain broadcast: Vichy remains neutral in the world war
   France: Home front and occupation
   Marshal Henri-Philippe Petain

Petain requests easing of German occupation policies
   France: Home front and occupation
   Germany: Occupied territories
   Marshal Henri-Philippe Petain

Jean Moulin returns secretly to France from London as de Gaulle's representative to the French Resistance
   France: Resistance and special operations
   Free France
   Jean Moulin
   Charles De Gaulle

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

North Sea
British vessel Kentwood sunk by mine
   Naval operations in Northwest European waters, 1939-1944

Irish Sea
British vessel Penrhos sunk by mine
   Naval operations in Northwest European waters, 1939-1944

Malta
Axis aircraft conduct heavy attacks
   Malta besieged, 1940-1942
   Air operations during the siege of Malta, 1940-1942
   Air operations in North Africa and the Mediterranean, 1939-1942

Western Desert
South African 3rd Infantry Brigade and 4th Infantry Brigade attacking isolated Axis garrison at Bardia
   Operation Crusader, November 1941 - January 1942

Axis forces begin withdrawing from Agedabia to El Agheila
   Operation Crusader, November 1941 - January 1942

RAF aircraft attack withdrawing Axis columns around Agedabia
   Operation Crusader, November 1941 - January 1942
   Air operations in North Africa and the Mediterranean, 1939-1942

United States
In Washington DC, delegates from 26 countries sign declaration of the United Nations
   United Nations

Admiral Royal Ingersoll takes command of US Atlantic Fleet
   United States: Navies, seapower, and naval operations
   The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1945

Sales of private cars and trucks banned
   United States: Home front and occupation

Pacific Ocean
US vessel Malama sunk by floatplane from Japanese raider Aikoku Maru while en route from Hawaii to Philippines
   Naval operations in the Central and Western Pacific Area
   Air operations in the Central and Western Pacific Area, 1941-1945

Philippine Islands
US-PI South Luzon Force demolishes Calumpit bridges over the Pampanga River and withdraws into Bataan
   Philippines campaign, 1941-1942

Main body of Japanese 14th Army pushing toward undefended Manila
   Philippines campaign, 1941-1942

Japanese vessel Teiun Maru sunk by mine in Lingayen Gulf
   Philippines campaign, 1941-1942
   Naval operations in the Philippines, 1941-1942

Malaya
Japanese Imperial Guards Division takes Kuantan
   Malaya and Singapore campaign, 1941-1942

Japanese attacking at Kampar without success
   Malaya and Singapore campaign, 1941-1942

Japanese forces conduct amphibious landing with small craft on west coast of Malaya and capture Telok Anson, threatening to cut off Indian 11th Infantry Division
   Malaya and Singapore campaign, 1941-1942

Singapore
Japanese aircraft conduct heavy attacks
   Malaya and Singapore campaign, 1941-1942
   Air operations in Malaya and Singapore, 1941-1942

East Indies
Elements of Japanese 16th Infantry Division land at Labuan Island off British Borneo
   Operations in British Borneo, December 1941 - February 1942
   Japanese invasion of the East Indies, 1941-1942
   Naval operations in Southeast Asian waters, 1941-1942

USN Admiral Hart arrives Surabaya on Java from Philippines aboard submarine Shark
   Naval operations in the East Indies
   United States submarine war against Japan, 1941-1945
   Admiral Thomas C. Hart

China
Chiang Kai-shek requests Lend-Lease aid to build a supply road from Ledo in India to Fort Hertz and Myitkyina in Burma, then into China and across the Salween River
   Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945: Politics and diplomacy
   Sino-American relations
   Chiang Kai-shek

Third Battle of Changsha: Japanese 11th Army attacking 10th Army of Chinese 9th War Area in outskirts of Changsha
   Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945

Third Battle of Changsha: 14th Independent Mixed Brigade of Japanese 11th Army begins withdrawing from Santu in Nanchang sector to its start line
   Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945

Burma
RAF Air Vice Marshal Stevenson takes command of Allied air forces in Burma
   Japanese conquest of Burma, 1941-1942
   Air operations in the China - Burma - India theater


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: 35
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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