OPERATION “BLUE”

28 JUNE—19 AUGUST 1942 26 JUNE 1942 Marshal Vasilevsky repaces Marshal Shaposhnikov as Chief of Soviet General Staff . 4 JULY 1942 US Bombers of the 8th Air Force undertake their first operation against occupied Europe. 4 JULY 1942 Convoy PQ17 is heavily attacked en route to northern Russia. 30 JULY 1942 First Battle of El Alamein. 12 AUGUST 1942 First summit meeting between Churchill and Stalin begins in Moscow. 19 AUGUST 1942 Dieppe raid on the coast of occupied France ends in disaster for British and Canadian forces. FIELD MARSHAL ERICH VON MANSTEIN (1887–1973) Generally regarded as one of Germany’s finest operational commanders during the Second World War, Field Marshal von Manstein (left) was born Erich von Lewinski, son of a Prussian general, but was adopted by another Prussian…

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