WW2 Tweets from 1942

@RealTimeWWII

I livetweet the Second World War as it happened on this date in 1942 & for 4 years to come (2nd time around). Created by Alwyn Collinson, realtimewwii@gmail.com

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Born 1939

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    I've been live-tweeting the Second World War since 2011. If you find this project interesting or enlightening, I'd value your support. Help keep history alive by joining my Patreon:

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  2. I've been live-tweeting the Second World War since 2011. If you find this project interesting or enlightening, I'd value your support. Help keep history alive by joining my Patreon:

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  3. Food is running out for Bataan's besieged garrison; without fodder for the cavalry's horses, the American & Filipino defenders have butchered & eaten them.

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  4. Furious American counterattacks forcing invaders back over sheer cliffs of Bataan; US Captain: "Scores of Japs leaped, shrieking, to the beach below"

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  5. In the Philippines, US troops are under constant assault; Japanese boats landing behind their lines, on coast of Bataan, last American holdout.

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  6. From next week, the USA will operate on "War Time": President Roosevelt orders all clocks put forward 1 hour year-round to save daylight & fuel.

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  7. Feb 1

    "One Chinese woman had half her face blown away. I'll never forget her pleading eyes. Large maggots crawled out of the remains of her nose."

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  8. Feb 1

    Phyllis Briggs, British nurse in a Singapore hospital: "In the heat & filth, many bombing victims have infected wounds, crawling with insects."

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  9. Feb 1

    Japanese bombers are smashing Singapore day & night, killing hundreds of civilians; 1 Singaporean woman mourns her child, slain in a midday raid:

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  10. Feb 1

    Sole MP to vote against government is James Maxton, Scottish far-left pacifist, who opposes military action, even against Hitler: “The plain fact is that war means the slaughter of millions.”

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  11. Feb 1

    Churchill, on Parliament's debate about his handling of the war: "No dictator country fighting for its life would dare allow such a discussion."

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  12. Feb 1

    British Parliament is debating a vote of no confidence in the government. After three days of debate on conduct of the war, House of Commons supports Churchill & his national coalition by 464-1.

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  13. Jan 31

    "Unity of Strength": British propaganda poster celebrates soldiers from across the Empire fighting togther to defeat the Axis: Australia, Canada, India, Africa, & New Zealand.

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  14. Jan 31

    Hitler: Jewish "plutocrats" & "Bolsheviks" started this war "to destroy Germany; instead, it will end with the worldwide destruction of Jewry."

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  15. Jan 31

    Hitler has made his annual speech to vast crowds in Berlin's Sportpalast: he calls Churchill a "drunken gabbler", Roosevelt a "mad fool", but admits "war may not end this year."

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  16. Jan 31

    Scottish Highlanders are trying to fortify Singapore's main golf course against expected Japanese landings, only to be told: "Nothing can be done until after a meeting of the club committee."

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  17. Jan 31

    One guest in the bar at Raffles, Singapore's world-famous hotel, hearing explosion, asks what the sound is. A Chinese waiter replies: "That is the end of the British Empire."

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  18. Jan 31

    Allied military engineers have blown up the causeway connecting Singapore to mainland Malaya- Japanese forces are now just 15 miles away from the city.

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  19. Jan 30

    Some children have been evacuated from the siege of Leningrad, across the only road over frozen Lake Ladoga, but Stalin has vetoed abandoning the USSR's second city "for prestige reasons". In any case, Axis control all other escape routes.

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  20. Jan 30

    Red Army & British Imperial troops now occupy Iranian cities & guard Iran's oil wells, officially to prevent any German threat- like these Indian soldiers.

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  21. Jan 30

    In return for "protection" of UK & USSR, Shah of Iran has agreed to let Allied troops occupy his strategic, oil-rich country until 6 months after the war ends

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