1940
Germany - Goering sets the 10th August 1940 as Eagle day, the start of the Luftwaffe major offensive against the RAF and its Airfields. Somalia - Italian forces reach Odweina in British Somaliland. Battles at Tug Argan and at Hargeisa.

1941
Japan - The Japanese foreign minister, Admiral Nomura, proposes to the USA a meeting between Roosevelt and Prime Minister Konoye.

1942
North Africa - General Dwight D. Eisenhower is appointed as commander-in-chief of allied forces preparing to invade. Soviet Union - German 1st Panzer Army crosses the Kuban river at Armavir.

1943
Vella Gulf - 4 Japanese destroyers attempt to bring troops and supplies to Kolombangara, Solomon Is. and are attacked by 6 U.S. destroyers. 3 Japanese destroyers are sunk and 1 damaged. U.S. destroyers suffer no damage. Italy - German troops pour in as Axis foreign ministers meet at Treviso.

1944
Poland - The Russians seize the oil centre of Drohobyez. The German Rahmel aircraft factory near Gdynia is attacked by allied bombers. The last Jewish ghetto in Lodz, is liquidated with 60,000 Jews sent to Auschwitz.

1945
Japan - U.S. B-29 Enola Gay drops a 3 atomic bomb Little Boy on Hiroshima, Japan. Pacific - U.S. carrier aircraft from a naval task group strike Japanese shipping in Tinghai Harbour, China. U.S. carrier aircraft bomb Wake Island, Micronesia. The U.S. First Army arrives on Luzon to prepare for final assault on Japan.