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Tag : Combat

1943-01-291943-01-31Battle of Wau

Australian defenders had been greatly reinforced by air. In the battle that followed, despite achieving tactical surprise by approaching from an unexpected direction, the Japanese attackers were unable to capture Wau.

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1943-01-291943-01-30Rennell Island

Japanese air attacks on a U.S. task force sink a heavy cruiser and damage a destoryer. The rest of the U.S. task force was forced to retreat from the southern Solomons area. As a result Japanese forces were able to safely evacuate Guadalcanal.

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1943-01-23Tripoli Captured

With Rommel withdrawing to the French-built southern defenses of Tunisia, the Mareth Line, following the Second Battle of El Alamein. The British 8th Army enter Tripoli.

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1943-01-141943-02-07Operation Ke

The largely successful withdrawal of Japanese forces from Guadalcanal at the conclusion of the Guadalcanal Campaign. 10,652 men were evactuated from Guadalcanal at a cost of one destroyer sunk and three damaged.

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1942-12-20Calcutta Bombing

Calcutta is bombed for the first time by the Japanese Air Force.

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1942-12-151943-01-23Battle of the Gifu

US soldiers and marines, assisted by native Solomon Islanders, attacked Japanese Army forces defending well-fortified and entrenched positions on several hills and ridges.

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1942-12-121942-12-23Winter Storm

Efforts by General Manstein to break through to the encircled 6th army at Stalingrad. Hitler's explicit order that the 6th army not break out of Stalingrad and Paulus's refusal to disobey that order doomed the attempt.

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1942-11-30Battle of Tassafaronga

A US warship force of 5 cruisers and 4 destroyers attempted to surprise and destroy a Japanese warship force of 8 destroyers. The battle was severe tactical defeat for the US, but with little strategic impact.

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1942-11-22Sixth Army surrounded

General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th army is surrounded.

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1942-11-19Operation Uranus begins

Soviet troops are poised to attack the flanks of the German 6th army besieging Stalingrad. The attacks would strike the poorly equipped and thinly spread Romanian Third Army in the north and the Romanian IV Corps in the south.

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