Today in WW2 history

March 31

1939 - The fighting between Slovakia and Hungary largely ceased.
1939 - British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain noted that the United Kingdom and France would guarantee Polish borders, with military force if necessary.

1940 - The armed merchant raider Atlantis set sail from Germany

1941 - Prince of Wales was commissioned into service
1941 - Italian submarine Ambra sank British cruiser HMS Bonaventure 125 miles south of Crete, Greece at 0244 hours. Bonaventure was escorting Allied convoy GA8 from Greece to Alexandria, Egypt at the time. 138 were killed, 310 survived. ww2dbase

1943 - Soviet troops defeated the German 17th Army in the Kuban Peninsula and captured Anastasyevsk north of Novorossiysk, near the coast of the Black Sea in southern Russia. ww2dbase

1944 - The newly-formed German Jagdverband 44, flying Me 262 jet fighters, flew its first mission out of München (Munich), Germany. ww2dbase

more here: ww2db.com/event/today/3/31/

Sorry I've been away @ a conference - here's a snippet of what happened over the last few days:

April 4

1941 - German raider Thor and British armed merchant cruiser Voltaire engaged in a 55-minute gun duel 900 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands at the distance of 9 kilometers. Voltaire was sunk, killing 74; Thor picked up 195 survivors

1942 - 62 Luftwaffe Stuka dive bombers and 70 other bombers escorted by 59 Bf 109 fighters attacked Soviet fleet at Kronstadt near Leningrad, Russia in the afternoon, damaging battleships October Revolution and Petropavlovsk, cruisers Maxim Gorky and Kirov, and destroyers Silny and Grozyashchi. After dark, He 111 bombers, some of which had participated in the Kronstadt attack in the afternoon, bombed Leningrad

1943 - RAF bombers conducted a raid on Kiel, Germany during the night

1945 - British Second Army captured Osnabrück, Germany
1945 - Eduard Schallmoser, flying a Me 262 jet fighter, scored the first kill of German Jagdverband 44. The kill was accidental, however, as he unintentionally rammed an American P-38 fighter in the tail

April 5

1940 - British RAF aircraft attacked German shipping at Wilhelmshaven

1942 - Seven Japanese Type 1 bombers, escorted by 4 Zero fighters, attacked Seven Mile airfield near Port Moresby, Australian Papua. Stores of fuel and ammunition were destroyed at the cost of one Zero fighter, which was shot down by Kittyhawk fighters
1942 - Shokaku launched air strikes against Colombo, Ceylon from the Indian Ocean

1943 - Allies launched Operation Flax, a concentrated effort to destroy Axis capability to supply Tunisia by air

1945 - French First Army captured Karlsruhe, Germany

April 6

1940 - German submarine U-59 torpedoed and sank Norwegian steamer Navarra 20 miles off the Scottish coast at 0316 hours, killing 12. Finnish steamer Atlas rescued 14 survivors in a lifeboat

1941 - RAF Beaufort aircraft torpedoed German battlecruiser Gneisenau at Brest, France

1942 - 157 British bombers (110 Wellington, 19 Stirling, 18 Hampden, and 10 Manchester aircraft) attacked Essen, Germany

April 7

1941 - British cruiser HMS Capetown bombarded Massawa, Eritrea, Italian East Africa. Italian torpedo boat MAS.213 counterattacked and seriously damaged HMS Capetown with a torpedo at 2315 hours, but Capetown was able to escape despite the damage. She would be towed to Bombay, India for repairs

1945 - USS Hancock, USS Maryland, and 4 destroyers were damaged by Japanese special attack aircraft
1945 - US First Army captured Göttingen and US Ninth Army captured Eisenach and Hameln

more here:

ww2db.com/event/today/4/4/
ww2db.com/event/today/4/5/
ww2db.com/event/today/4/6/
ww2db.com/event/today/4/7/

I read every day

I was wondering about this ... because you enter this stuff daily, you commit yourself to a LOT of repeated work. Is there an online source you use? Maybe just list that link in the first post? That way people can read it at much less effort on your part!

Well thanks guys, I'm glad someone's reading it. Swizz is right though, it's quite a time commitment. I'm looking at how best to continue this.

Nope, I'm getting them from a site, but I'm choosing three or four that I like best each time. I don't want to pull the block verbatim and just posting a link a day is driving traffic away from the site and honestly if I do that I'm not really adding value.