Live tweets from 1942
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Female Red Army sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko, nicknamed "Lady Death", fought mainly in sieges of Odessa & Sevastopol. She has 309 total confirmed kills, including 36 Axis snipers. Pavlichenko now in
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Overnight, Royal Air Force launched "Operation Millennium": over 1000 bombers have attacked Cologne, in the largest single air raid of the war so far. One of the 1047 RAF bombers
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In Libya, General Rommel's Afrikakorps have launched a surprise attack against British, Indian & French troops holding the defensive "Gazala Line" in the desert. Allied forces hold the Gazala Line,
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Japanese Navy have selected their next Allied target to attack, in a bid to destroy the US Navy's Pacific Fleet: Midway, a tiny atoll near Hawaii. Japanese Admiral Yamamoto hopes
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