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 Netherlands
RAF Fighter Command Roadstead operation
Air operations in Northwest Europe, 1939-1944
Fighter Command / 2nd Tactical Air Force: Operations and missions
France
RAF Fighter Command Ramrod operation
Air operations in Northwest Europe, 1939-1944
Fighter Command / 2nd Tactical Air Force: Operations and missions
US 8th Air Force sweeps with 129 fighters
Air operations in Northwest Europe, 1939-1944
Eighth Air Force: Operations and missions
North Sea
RAF Bomber Command sends 12 aircraft on minelaying operations overnight
Strategic bombing of Germany and occupied Europe
Air operations in Northwest Europe, 1939-1944
Bomber Command: Operations and missions
United Kingdom
Convoy ON 191 departs Liverpool for New York City
Atlantic convoys
Convoy KMF 19 departs the Clyde for Algiers
Atlantic convoys
Albania
Albanian partisans conduct large-scale attacks in the south for three days, claiming 500 Italian troops killed
Albania: Home front and occupation
Albania: Occupation, collaboration, and resistance
Albania: Partisans and special operations
Italy
Antonescu suggests to Mussolini that Rumania, Italy, and Hungary should leave the war together
Axis nations
Marshal Ion Antonescu
Benito Mussolini
Tunisia
USAAF fighters claim four Luftwaffe aircraft downed off Cape Bon
Air operations in North Africa and the Mediterranean, 1943-1945
Atlantic Ocean
Brazilian vessel Tutoia sunk by U-513
The U-Boat war, 1939-1945
Solomon Islands
US 43rd Infantry Division consolidates beachhead on Rendova Island
Central Solomons campaign, February - October 1943
USMC 4th Raider Battalion captures Viru Harbor on New Georgia Island
Central Solomons campaign, February - October 1943
US AirSols aircraft attack targets around Viru on New Georgia Island
Central Solomons campaign, February - October 1943
Air operations in the Solomon Islands and South Pacific
Japanese aircraft attack Allied shipping off New Georgia Island
Central Solomons campaign, February - October 1943
Naval operations in the Solomon Islands and South Pacific
Air operations in the Solomon Islands and South Pacific
New Guinea
Japanese 5th Sasebo SNLF arrives Salamaua
Operations in Northeast New Guinea and Netherlands New Guinea, 1943-1945
US MacKechnie Force consolidates positions along the Bitoi River at Nassau Bay
Operations in Northeast New Guinea and Netherlands New Guinea, 1943-1945
US 5th Air Force aircraft attack Kela Point and Logui
Operations in Northeast New Guinea and Netherlands New Guinea, 1943-1945
Air operations in Australia, New Guinea, and the Bismarcks, 1942-1945
Bismarck Archipelago
USAAF aircraft attack Rabaul on New Britain
Air siege of Rabaul
Air operations in Australia, New Guinea, and the Bismarcks, 1942-1945
East Indies
US submarine Gar lands commandos on Timor Island
Operations in Portuguese Timor
Operations in the East Indies, 1942-1945
Naval operations in the East Indies
United States submarine war against Japan, 1941-1945
Japanese vessel Yoneyama Maru sunk by USN submarine Thresher
Operations in the East Indies, 1942-1945
Naval operations in the East Indies
United States submarine war against Japan, 1941-1945
IJN destroyer Hokaze damaged by USN submarine Thresher and subsequently beached
Operations in the East Indies, 1942-1945
Naval operations in the East Indies
United States submarine war against Japan, 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: 21
Total entries on file: 60,291
Updated: 21:34 Pacific Time on 15 May 2013
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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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