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Russian Front
Soviet 4th Shock Army surrounds Velizh and threatens flank of German Army Group Center
   Soviet winter offensive, November 1941 - May 1942

Germany
RAF Bomber Command sends 71 aircraft to attack Hannover overnight
   Strategic bombing of Germany and occupied Europe
   Air operations in Northwest Europe, 1939-1944
   Bomber Command: Operations and missions

RAF Bomber Command sends 31 aircraft to attack Emden overnight
   Strategic bombing of Germany and occupied Europe
   Air operations in Northwest Europe, 1939-1944
   Bomber Command: Operations and missions

France
RAF Bomber Command sends 22 aircraft to attack Brest overnight
   Strategic bombing of Germany and occupied Europe
   Air operations in Northwest Europe, 1939-1944
   Bomber Command: Operations and missions

United Kingdom
First American troop convoy arrives with 34th Infantry Division aboard Strathaird and Chateau Thierry
   Americans in the UK

Convoy OG 79 departs Liverpool for Gibraltar
   Atlantic convoys

Convoy ON 60 departs Liverpool for Halifax
   Atlantic convoys

Convoy PQ 10 departs Loch Ewe for Murmansk via Reykjavik with PQ 9
   Arctic convoys

Mediterranean Sea
Operation MF 4: British vessels Glengyle and Rowallan Castle with RN Force K and Breconshire with Force B meet at sea
   Malta besieged, 1940-1942
   Malta convoys
   Naval campaign for Malta, 1940-1942
   Naval operations in the Mediterranean, 1939-1942

Western Desert
Panzer Army Afrika captures Msus
   Agheila to Gazala to Alamein, 1942

Atlantic Ocean
British vessel Traveller sunk by U-106
   The U-Boat war, 1939-1945

US vessel West Ivis sunk by U-125
   The U-Boat war, 1939-1945

Greek vessel Icarion sunk by U-754
   The U-Boat war, 1939-1945

British vessel Refast sunk by U-582
   The U-Boat war, 1939-1945

Norwegian vessel Pan Norway sunk by U-123
   The U-Boat war, 1939-1945

United States
Board of Inquiry finds Admiral Kimmel and General Short guilty of dereliction of duty at Pearl Harbor
   Pearl Harbor raid, December 1941: Politics and diplomacy
   Pearl Harbor raid, December 1941: Intelligence, deception, and conspiracies
   Admiral Husband E. Kimmel
   General Walter Short

Canada
Convoy HX 172 departs Halifax for Liverpool
   Atlantic convoys

Philippine Islands
US-PI I Corps and II Corps withdraw into final defensive line from Orion to Bagac in Bataan on Luzon
   Philippines campaign, 1941-1942

South China Sea
RAF unsuccessfully attacks Japanese convoy off Endau with 68 aircraft flying from Singapore, of which 13 lost
   Malaya and Singapore campaign, 1941-1942
   Naval operations in Southeast Asian waters, 1941-1942
   Air operations in Malaya and Singapore, 1941-1942

Malaya
Japanese convoy safely arrives Endau on the east coast
   Malaya and Singapore campaign, 1941-1942
   Naval operations in Southeast Asian waters, 1941-1942

Singapore
RN destroyers Thanet and Vampire depart to attack Japanese landing force at Endau on the east coast of Malaya
   Malaya and Singapore campaign, 1941-1942
   Naval operations in Southeast Asian waters, 1941-1942

East Indies
Japanese detachment pushes 2/15 Punjab out of positions around Singkawang II in western Dutch Borneo
   Japanese invasion of the East Indies, 1941-1942

Burma
Japanese 15th Army orders 55th Infantry Division to capture Moulmein while 33rd Infantry Division pushes toward Pa-an on the Salween River
   Japanese conquest of Burma, 1941-1942

Three Japanese aircraft claimed over Rangoon by 1st and 2nd AVG Squadrons
   Japanese conquest of Burma, 1941-1942
   Air operations in the China - Burma - India theater
   American Volunteer Group


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: 24
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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