War Diary – January

War Diary – January

8th JANUARY 1940.
Wide food- rationing regulations introduced in Britain for the first time since 1918. Butter, bacon, sugar and ham can only be bought with a ration book.

22nd January 1941.
British capture Tobruk, Luftwaffe aircraft arrive in Sicily.

1st January 1942.
United Nations Declaration signed. U-Boat offensive off US coast begins

4th January 1942
Japanese begin air attacks on Rabaul

7TH January 1942
Siege of Bataan begins

11TH January 1942.
Japanese invade Netherlands East Indies

17TH January 1942
Halfaya garrison surrenders to British

19TH January 1942
Japanese capture Tavoy, Burma.

22nd January 1942
In new Axis offensive, Rommel retakes Agedabia

24TH January 1942
US destroyers sink Japanese shipping in Macassar Strait

27TH January 1942
British begin withdrawal from Malay Peninsula to Singapore

30TH-31ST January 1942
Battle of Moulmein, British pushed back in Burma.

15TH January 1943
British Eighth Army opens drive on Tripoli

17TH January 1943.
For the first time since May 1941. London is subjected to a night -time raid by German bombers, totalling 118 aircraft.

30TH January 1943
Ernst Kaltenbrunner appointed head of SD

30TH January 1943
Admiral Donitz replaces Raeder as head of Kriegsmarine, 14th Division advances into Arakan

5TH January 1944
Allied drive to the Rapido, Italy

8TH January 1944
Red Army takes Kirovograd

11TH January 1944
Allied air forces begin Operation Pointblank against German aircraft industry and Luftwaffe

15th-19th January 1944
Liberation of Leningrad

16TH January 1944
Eisenhower assumes duties at Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force

21st January 1944.
Hitler orders retaliatory raids against London and South England, only 96 out of 270 aircraft reach their targets, and some are brought down. In contrast almost 700 R.A.F bombers make successful raids on Berlin. Kiel Magdeburg.

22ND January 1944
Allied Forces land at Anzio

27TH January 1944
Leningrad -Moscow railroad opened

31ST January 1944
US forces land on Kwajalein (secured 7th February.

1ST January 1945
Germans launch offensive (Operation Nordwind ) against US Seventh Army

9TH January 1945
US Sixth Army invades Luzon

12TH January 1945
Marjor Soviet winter offensive opens First convoy starts on Ledo Road.

16TH January 1945
Allied counteroffensive reduces German bulge in Ardennes

17TH January 1945
Red Army takes Warsaw

20TH January 1945
Hungary signs armistice with the Allies

30TH January 1945
Anglo- American talks prior to Yalta Conference begin at Malta

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