1943
Caithness at War: Week 198
Week 198: 14th - 20th June 1943 On 15 June Germany conducted a test flight of the first jet-powered…
Caithness at War: Week 197
Week 197: 07-13 June 1943 On 8 June, Japanese forces finally evacuated the Aleutian Islands close…
Caithness at War Week 196
31 May - 6 June 1943 On 2 June Pope Pius XII controversially criticised the Allied “terror”…
Caithness at War Week 195
Week 195: 24th - 30th May 1943 On 30 May US forces finally recaptured the Aleutian island of Attu…
Caithness at War Week 194
Week 194: 17th - 23rd May 1943 Having taken Tunisia the Allies now began to bomb site sin Sicily…
Caithness at War: Week 192
Week 192: 3rd - 9th May 1943 On 7 May Allied armies took Tunis. The remaining German and Italian…
Caithness at War: Week 191
26 April-2 May 1943 On 26 April an American force landed in the Aleutian Islands which had been…
Caithness at War: Week 190
19-25 April 1943 On 19 April the Warsaw Ghetto uprising began, when Jewish residents drove off…
Caithness at War: Week 189
12-18 April 1943 This week Germany broadcast the news of the massacre at Katyn of Polish army…