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Russian Front
German 1st Panzer Army captures Voroshilovgrad
   German summer offensive in Russia, May - November 1942

Germany
Kriegsmarine requests Italian Naval Command prepare torpedo boats and submarines for transfer to the Caspian Sea
   Russo-German War, 1941-1945: Politics and diplomacy
   Italo-German relations
   Naval operations in Russian waters

First flight of V3 prototype of Me-262 jet fighter
   Me 262 jet fighters

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

United Kingdom
General Eisenhower conducts first planning conference for invasion of French Northwest Africa
   Northwest Africa campaign, 1942-1943
   General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Mediterranean Sea
Italian Navy transfers six motor torpedo boats from Suda to Tobruk
   Naval operations in the Mediterranean, 1943-1945

Western Desert
First Battle of Alamein: Lull in fighting
   Agheila to Gazala to Alamein, 1942

Atlantic Ocean
British vessel Glacier sunk by U-575
   The U-Boat war, 1939-1945

British vessel Comrade sunk by U-575
   The U-Boat war, 1939-1945

Panamanian vessel Carmona sunk by U-160
   The U-Boat war, 1939-1945

South Atlantic
German raider Stier replenished by supply ship Charlotte Schliemann
   Naval operations in the South Atlantic
   German merchant raiders and their supply ships

Japan
German vessel Regensburg arrives with top secret Allied documents, taken by raider Thor from captured Nankin, indicating Japanese Navy code JN25b broken by Allies
   Axis blockade runners and supply ships
   Magic
   German-Japanese relations


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: 12
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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