1941
Caithness at War: Week 86
21-27 April 1941 Now that German and Italian forces had overrun Yugoslavia and Greece, Allied…
Caithness at War: Week 85
14-20 April 1941 Britain had sent some 62,000 Allied troops to reinforce Greece, but they were…
Caithness at War: Week 84
7-13 April 1941 In Libya Rommel followed up his recent success by besieging British and…
Caithness at War: Week 83
31 March - 6 April 1941 Surprised by the ease of his victory in the North African desert last week,…
Caithness at War: Week 82
24-30 March 1941 After defeating the Italians in North Africa, the British had reached as far as El…
Caithness at War: Week 81
17-23 March 1941 The war this week was dominated by the German war against British convoys, with…
Caithness at War: Week 80
10-16 March 1941 On 11 March President Roosevelt of the USA signed the Lend-Lease Act into law,…
Caithness at War: Week 79
3-9 March 1941 On 4 March British commandos carried out a successful raid on oil facilities in…
Caithness at War: Week 78
24 February -2 March 1941 At the start of the week Hitler declared that Germany was winning the…