Table of Data Points

Tag : Combat

1943-03-27Sinking of HMS Dasher

Sinking of the HMS Dasher as the result of an unexplained internal explosion.

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1943-03-27Komandorski Islands

An outnumbered U.S. cruiser force prevents a Japanese fleet from reaching their Aleutian garrisons by surface, leaving only submarines for resupply runs. This engagement was one of the few fought exclusively between surface ships.

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1943-03-021943-03-04Bismarck Sea Battle

US and Australian air force attack a Japanese convoy carrying troops bound for Lae, New Guinea. Most of the convoy is sunk (8 transports, 4 destroyers) and thousands of Japanese troops are killed.

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1943-02-27Heavy Water Sabotage

On the night of February the 27th, Norwegian commandos succeeded at destroying the production facility with a second attempt known as Operation Gunnerside.

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1943-02-191943-02-25Kasserine Pass

Significant as the first large-scale meeting of American and German forces in World War II, the untested and poorly-led American troops suffered heavy casualties and were pushed back over 80 km from their positions west of Faid Pass.

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1943-02-191943-03-15Third Battle of Kharkov

A German counter attack led by Field Marshel Erich von Manstein effectively destroys 52 Soviet divisions and recaptures Kharkov and Belgorod. The fall of Belgorod creates the salient which would be the focus of the Battle of Kursk.

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1943-02-14Rostov-on-Don

Soviet troops re-enter Rostov-on-Don, a strategic railway junction, river port and gateway to the Caucus oil-fields. It would take 10 years to repair the damage to the city.

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1943-02-141943-02-17Sidi Bou Zid

US troops from the 1st Armoured Division CCA (Combat Command A), CCB and CCC is forced to retreat after losing losing 46 medium tanks, 130 vehicles and 9 self-propelled guns.

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1943-02-08Soviets take Kursk

Soviet troops enter Kursk.

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1943-01-31Paulus Surrenders

Field Marshal Paulus surrenders the 6th army at Stalingrad and, referring to Hitler's expectations of suicide or holding out to the last man, says "I have no intention of shooting myself for this Austrian corporal".

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