1942
Caithness at War: Week 147
22-28 June 1942 In the Western desert General Auchinleck assumed direct control of British forces…
Caithness at War: Week 146
15-21 June 1942 In the Western Desert, British troops continued their retreat after Rommel’s Afrika…
Caithness at War: Week 145
8-14 June 1942 This week the ongoing battle for Gazala in the Western desert reached a climax as…
Caithness at War: Week 144
1-7 June 1942 This week saw one of the decisive battles of the war when a Japanese fleet was…
Caithness at War: Week 143
25-31 May 1942 On 26 May Britain and Russia signed the Anglo-Soviet Treaty, in which each party…
Caithness at War: Week 142
18-24 May 1942 In southern Russia, the Soviet offensive to recapture Kharkov broke down, and a…
Caithness at War: Week 141
11-17 May 1942 While the Germans continued to prepare for their own summer offensive in Russia,…
Caithness at War: Week 140
4-10 March 1942 This week the American and Japanese navies fought the Battle of the Coral Sea, the…
Caithness at War: Week 139
27 April-3 May 1942 On 29 April Hitler and Mussolini met, and Mussolini pledged Italian forces to…