1943
Caithness at War: Week 188
5 - 11 April 1943 On 7 April Hitler and Mussolini met at Salzburg; Mussolini had been discouraged…
Caithness at War: Week 187
29 March-4 April 1943 In North Africa, Allied forces in Tunisia continued to push the German and…
Caithness at War: Week 186
22-28 March 1943 The Allied advance into Tunisia continued this week. On 23 March Patton’s II Corps…
Caithness at War: Week 185
15-21 March 1943 The week the Allies advanced into Tunisia, with Montgomery’s Eighth Army attacking…
Caithness at War: Week 184
8-14 March 1943 In Russia on 14 March after fierce fighting German forces finally retook Kharkov in…
Caithness at War: Week 183
1-7 March 1943 On 1 March was fought the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, when US and Australian forces…
Caithness at War: Week 182
22-28 February 1943 On 26 February Rommel left the Mareth Line, a defensive position in the…
Caithness at War: Week 181
15-21 February 1943 In the Ukraine Soviet forces retook the city of Kharkov, but the Germans…
Caithness at War: Week 180
8-14 Febraury 1943 In North Africa General Dwight D Eisenhower assumed command of all Allied…