1940
Chinese take Dongyangyuan Pass, Shanxi Province, China in war with Japan.
1941
General Cunningham’s ‘Southern Force’ invades Italian Somaliland from Garissa and Bura in Kenya.
1942
More reinforcements arrive at Singapore to boost its defenses as the British 18th Division is landed.
Japanese troops land at Balikpapan in Dutch Borneo.
Four US destroyers and some submarines attack a Japanese convoy in theMakassar Strait between Borneo and Celebes, sinking 1 destroyer and four transports, while only suffering damage to one of their destroyers. This action delays the impending Japanese invasion of Java.
US Flying Tigers P-40s shoot down 12 planes over Rangoon, Burma.
German troops of Army Group Centre, recapture Sukhinichi near Kaluga.
1943
Russians take Starobelskiy, near the Donets River in the eastern Ukraine, more than 250 miles to the West of Stalingrad. Hitler orders no surrender in Stalingrad. The offensive by the Soviet Trans-Caucasian Front toward the Kuban bridgehead is stopped at Novorossiysk and Krasnodar.
Fighting in Papua is officially reported as over.
1944
In response to political pressure to help Jews under Nazi control, Roosevelt creates the War Refugee Board.
Chinese forces make further advances in the Hukawng Valley.
German bombers sink British hospital ship St. David off Anzio with Hs-293 guided missile; 96 killed, including 2 British nurses.
The US 93rdEvacuation Hospital opens in Anzio and is hit by German shells, injuring a sergeant, the first of many casualties in the Anzio hospitals.
1945
U.S. troops capture Clark Field, the main Japanese airbase on Luzon.
The Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm carrier planes destroy the Japanese oil refinery near Palembang, on Sumatra.
German forces begin evacuating Slovakia.
The 1st Ukrainian Front captures Oppeln and Gleiwitz in Upper Silesia.