WW2 Day by Day

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  1. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    Finnish offensives against the Soviet 8th and 9th Armies continue. A "suicide company" of 250 Finnish ski troops tear up the vital Leningrad-Murmansk railway line at 3 points.



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  2. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    Finnish offensives against the Soviet 8th and 9th Armies continue. General Stern, formerly in command of the Soviet Far Eastern Army, is assigned to direct operations north of Lake Ladoga. Some 60 bombs are dropped by Soviet aircraft on Hango.

     
  3. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    Hitler makes a New Year proclamation: "We shall only talk of peace when we have won the war. The Jewish-capitalistic world will not survive the twentieth century."

     
  4. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    Finnish forces repulsed a Soviet probing assault in the Taipale area of the Mannerheim Line.

     
  5. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    In Prague... journalists and officers of the former Czechoslovakian armed forces are rounded up in a new wave of arrests by the Nazis. #WW2 #History

     
  6. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    WW2 Day by Day : January 3rd 1940 - On the Western Front... in the Vosges area, French patrols ambush two German detachments and take several prisoners. Watch the clip to find out what else happened on this date in #WW2.

     
  7. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    A Franco-Polish military agreement is reached whereby a Polish Army in France is to be equipped and maintained at French expense. #WW2

     
  8. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    The Soviet 18th Division is encircled north of Lake Ladoga. The first contingent of Swedish volunteer troops reach Finland. In Moscow... the USSR accuses Norway and Sweden of pursuing "unneutral" policy.

     
  9. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    A pair of Finnish Fokker fighters destroy a formation of 7 Ilyushin bombers over Utti, 60 miles northeast of Helsinki.

     
  10. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    In the fighting north of Lake Ladoga the Finnish pressure on the Soviet 18th and 168th Divisions continues. Finnish claims estimate 50,000 Soviet troops have perished in the last five weeks.

     
  11. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    A converted Wellington bomber fitted with an energised metal hoop to explode magnetic mines does its first successful trials in the North Sea.

     
  12. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    In France... the first colonial contingent, of Cypriot troops, arrives to reinforce the British Expeditionary Force.

     
  13. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    Two German officers carrying copies of the plan for the attack in the west are forced down when their plane strays off course over Belgium. The plane, on a flight from Munster to Cologne, became lost in thick cloud. It lands at Mechelen, in Belgium.

     
  14. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    The Women's Section of the Air Transport Auxiliary delivers its first aeroplane from factory to depot. This is one more indication of women's increasing usefulness in the war effort, but not everybody likes it.

     
  15. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    The battle of Taipale begins. Red Army forces launch a major offensive to break through the left flank of the Mannerheim Line. The Soviet effort is aimed at achieving a crossing over the frozen Taipale River.
     
  16. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    A "state of readiness" is ordered in anticipation of an invasion from Germany in Belgium and Holland. All army leave is cancelled.
     
  17. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    In Warsaw... deaths, mainly from starvation, in the Jewish ghetto are estimated to be running at 70 per day.

     
  18. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    In Cairo... General Sir Archibald Wavell is appointed the British Commander-in-Chief Middle East.

     
  19. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    Hitler decides to cancel the German attack in the west until the spring. The possible compromising of the plan for the attack at Mechelen on January 10th and the continuing bad weather are the principal reasons.

     
  20. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    Polish cryptographers break the Luftwaffe Enigma key of October 28th. This allows for routine decoding hereafter.

     

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