For chronological order, click here for the previous WW2 post ! By the end of January 1942, German forces had been pushed back from Moscow and suffered around one million casualties. Eager to retake the initiative, Hitler planned a summer offensive (Operation Blau) targeting oilfields in the southern Caucasus: a pressure point that could re-supplyContinue reading “The Grain Elevator: Stalingrad, 18th-22nd September 1942”
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Last stand at Guadalcanal, 21st August 1942
For chronological order, click here for the previous WW2 post! Despite severe losses at the Coral Sea and Midway, Japan continued to expand into the South Pacific in order to consolidate its holdings and push further into the region. From early-July 1942, Japanese forces landed on Guadalcanal – a remote island in the southern SolomonsContinue reading “Last stand at Guadalcanal, 21st August 1942”
Assault on the dry dock, St Nazaire, 28th March 1942
For chronological order, click here for the previous WW2 post! In early-1942, the German battleship Tirpitz posed a major threat to Britain’s vulnerable sea routes. If deployed in the Atlantic it would take refuge in the port of St Nazaire, where the Normandie Dock – the largest of its kind in the world – wasContinue reading “Assault on the dry dock, St Nazaire, 28th March 1942”
Road ambush at Bakri, 18th January 1942
For chronological order, click here to see the previous WW2 post! By mid-January 1942, the relentless Japanese advance across Malaya had forced British and Commonwealth forces to withdraw to Johore in the south of the country. It was here that one of the few local victories against the Japanese came on 18th January. At dawn,Continue reading “Road ambush at Bakri, 18th January 1942”
