War Diary – February

War Diary – February

5TH February 1941
British victorious at Beda Fomm

6TH February 1941
The government publishes an official recipe for Blitz Broth; there are to be many such austerity recipes from the Ministry of Food, including Woolton Pie, a vegetarian dish named after Lord Woolton, Minister of Food from 1940.

9TH February 1941
Royal Navy bombards Genoa

12TH February 1941
Rommel arrives in Tripoli

22ND February 1941
Axis attacks at EL Agheila

1ST February 1942
US carrier aircraft raid Japanese bases on Gilbert and Marshall Islands

2ND February 1942
2 Million more British children receive free cod-liver oil

3RD February 1942
The Government restricts clothes prices, limiting the cost of a suit to £4 -18s 8d (£4.92)

11TH February 1942
German warships Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Prinz Eugen make dash up English Channel (to 13 February)

15TH February 1942
Singapore surrenders to Japanese

18TH February 1942
It is reported that due to the shortage of cosmetics women are using cooked beetroot juice for lipstick, soot for eye makeup and gravy browning paint is being applied as a substitute for silk stockings accompanied by pencilled-in seams

19TH February 1942
Battle of Lombok Strait, Dutch destroyer sunk

19TH February 1942
Japanese carrier aircraft raid Darwin, northern Australia

22nd February 1942
Roosevelt orders Macarthur to leave Philippines

25th February 1942
ABDA Command dissolved

27th February 1942
Fighting in Java Sea ends Allied naval resistance in Netherlands East Indies (to 1st March

2Nd February 1943
Paulus surrenders VI Army at Stalingrad

8TH February 1943
Chindits cross Chindwin into Burma (withdraw in April

9TH February 1943
US forces complete Guadalcanal campaign

14TH February 1943
Red Army takes Rostov

18th February 1943
Axis breakthrough at Kasserine pass

18TH February 1943
Goebbels total war speech at Berlin Sportspalast

3rd February 1944
Soviet forces trap two German corps at Korsun

4TH February 1944
Japanese launch offensive operation in Arakan

13th February 1944
Combined Chiefs of Staff order intensive bomber offensive against Germany

13TH-15TH February 1944
British counterattack in Arakan

15TH February 1944
Allies bomb Monte Cassino monastery

16TH February 1944
Germans begin counterattack at Anzio

17th February 1944
US forces land on Eniwetok (secured 22 February)

20TH February 1944
Big Week of air attacks on Germany opens (to 26th February

29TH February 1944
US Army force lands in Admiralty Islands

3RD February 1945
US forces reach Manila

4TH February 1945
Yalta Conference -Churchill -Roosevelt and Stalin meet once again to discuss the world's post-war future

9th February 1945
French First Army concludes Alsatian operations with victory at Colmar pocket

13th-14th February 1945
The German city of Dresden is devastated, following night and day attacks by 750 R.A.F. and 400 USAAF bombers. Some 100,000 people are killed with another 300,000 injured, for the city is full of refugees. Budapest falls to Red Army

19TH February 1945
US marines invade Iwo Jima

24TH February 1945
18 Year-old Princess Elizabeth joins the A.T.S. as 2nd Subaltern Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, she qualifies as a driver on the 14th April, and is promoted to Junior Commander on the 27th July

25TH February 1945
B-29 raid on Tokyo demonstrates effectiveness of incendiary bombs

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