1939
Caithness at War: Week 205
Week 205: 2nd - 8th August 2016 In Russia Soviet forces continued their offensive and recaptured…
Caithness at War Week 193
Week 193: 10th - 16th May 2016 On 13 May the North African campaign finally came to an end when…
Caithness at War: Week 17
25-31 December 1939 And so the third month of the war came to an end, and with it the year 1939. In…
Caithness at War: Week 16
18-24 December 1939 Britain suffered a heavy defeat on 18 December in the “Battle of the Heligoland…
Caithness at War: Week 15
11-17 December 1939 On 13 December the Battle of the River Plate took place off the coast of…
Caithness at War: Week 14
4-10 December 1939 As Russian forces invaded Finland and the “Winter War” began, Finnish forces…
Caithness at War: Week 13
27 November-3 December 1939 On 30 November the Soviet Union invaded Finland with some 450,000 men,…
Caithness at War: Week 12
20-26 November 1939 Mounting tension between Russia and Finland escalated when the Russian village…
Caithness at War: Week 11
13-19 November 1939 Russia, anxious about her security in the Baltic, had already coerced three…