[james_nix]

Originally Posted by TorpX

About the radio messages, maybe radio messages could be added concerning enemy attack/capture of ports/towns. It seems we get no inkling of when this happens, beyond the color changing on the map. In fact, any war news or reports would be good.

I found this at http://www.ww2pacific.com/chron.html#1943 as an example, it'd have to be fleshed out of course.

I'm sure there are other sites.

Dec 1941 - -  	. . . Japan Sweeps . . .
27Nov41	Japanese fleets depart to attack east and invade west Pacific
07Dec41	Japan raids Pearl Harbor, Wake Island, takes Guam
07Dec41	Japan Declares War. Bombs Philippines
07Dec41	Japan invades Siam, Maylaya, Hong Kong
08Dec41	Japan takes Gilbert Islands
09Dec41	Japan sinks Repulse, Prince of Wales
11Dec41	Japan invades Burma
16Dec41	Japan invades Borneo
22Dec41	Japan invades Philippines
23Dec41	Japan invades Wake Island
24Dec41	Battle of Makassar Strait
25Dec41	Hong Kong surrenders
31Dec41	Japan occupies Manila
- - 1942 - -  	. . . Holding Actions . . .
11Jan42	Japan invades Dutch East Indies
15Feb42	Singapore surrenders
19Feb42	Battle of Badoeng Strait
19Feb42	Japan bombs Darwin, Australia
27Feb42	Battle of Java Sea
09Mar42	Java surrenders
13Mar42	Japan lands in Solomons
05Apr42	Japan raids Ceylon, Indian Ocean
09Apr42	Bataan surrenders.
18Apr42	Doolittle Raid on Tokyo
7-8 May	Battle of Coral Sea
08May42	Corregidor falls, Philippines surrendered
20May42	Burma surrenders
4-6Jun42	Battle of Midway
07Jun42	Japanese take Attu, Aleutians
07Aug42	Marines land at Guadalcanal
09Aug42	Battle of Savo Island
19Aug42	Raid on Dieppe
23Aug42	Battle for Stalingrad starts
24Aug42	Battle of Eastern Solomons
26Aug42	Japan lands at Milne Bay, New Guinea
05Sep42	Japan evicted at Milne Bay, New Guinea.
11Oct42	Battle of Cape Esperance
25Oct42	Battle of Santa Cruz
08Nov42	Allied invasion of North Africa.
12-15Nov	Naval Battles of Guadalcanal
30Nov42	Battle of Tassafaronga
- - 1943 - -  	. . . The End of the Beginning . . .
02Jan43	Buna taken on N. coast of New Guinea.
31Jan43	Germany surrenders army at Stalingrad
09Feb43	Guadalcanal declared secure
22Feb43	Kasserine Pass, Tunisia
2-4Mar	Battle of Bismarck Sea
26Mar43	Battle of the Komandorski Islands (Alaska)
18Apr43	Yamamoto shot down by P-38's.
11May-30Jun	US retakes Attu, Aleutians.
21Jun43	New Georgia, Solomons
5Jul-17Jul	Kursk tank battle
09July43	Allies invade Sicily
05Aug43	Germany expelled from Russia
06Aug43	Battle of Vella Gulf, Solomons
09Sep-17Sep	Salerno, Italy
01Oct43	Naples taken
00Oct43	VAdm Fletcher becomes Commander, North Pacific under Nimitz.
01Nov43	Marines land on Bougainville, Solomons
05Nov43	Sara, Princeton raid Rabaul to protect Empress Augusta Bay
21Nov43	Makin and Tarawa, Gilbert Islands.
26Dec43	Cape Gloucester, Solomons -- 1st Marines invade New Britain continuing Operation Cartwheel to isolate Rabaul.
- - 1944 - -  	. . . the Long Road to Victory . . .
22Jan-23May	Anzio, Italy.
29Jan44	Army lands in Admiralty Islands.
31Jan44	Marines land on Marshall Islands.
07Feb44	Kwajalein, Marshalls
12Feb44	Zionist Menachem Begin begins to blowup British in Palestine.
18Feb44	Massive naval air raid on Truk, Carolines.
19Feb44	Marines land on Eniwetok Island.
15Mar44	Japan invades India.
22Mar44	US lands at Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea
04Jun44	Allies enter Rome
06Jun44	D-Day, Normandy
15Jun44	B-29s bomb Japan from China
15Jun-9July	Saipan, Marianas
19Jun44	Japanese carrier fleet defeated in Philippine Sea
21July-10Aug	Guam
24July-01Aug	Tinian
25July44	Breakout from Hedgerows, Normandy
15Aug44	Allies invade southern France.
21Aug44	Falaise Pocket
22Aug44	Japanese retreat from India
25Aug44	Liberation of Paris
15Sep-13Oct	Invasion of Peleliu, Palaus
17Sep-26Sep	A Bridge Too Far
20Oct44	US Landing on Leyte, Philippines
23Oct-26Oct	Japanese battle fleet destroyed at Leyte Gulf.
24Nov44	Start B-29 raids on Japan from Tinian
28Nov44	Antwerp port opened
15Dec44	Landing on Mindoro, Philippines
16Dec44	Battle of the Bulge
- - 1945 - -	. . . the War is Concluded . . .
09Jan45	Landing on Luzon
16Jan45	Battle of Bulge, Allies link up.
4-11Feb	Yalta. USSR to enter Pacific War
13Feb45	Fire bomb Dresden
19Feb-16Mar	Iwo Jima
03Mar45	Manila liberated
07Mar45	Remagen Bridge
09Mar45	Fire bomb Tokyo
21Mar45	Mandalay, Burma regained.
22Mar-23Mar	Patton & Montgomery cross Rhine
22Mar45	Arab League declares war on Axis
01Apr-21Jun	Okinawa
12Apr45	FDR dies, Truman President.
30Apr45	Hitler suicide.
03May45	Rangoon freed.
07May45.	Germany surrenders.
10Jun45	Australians invade Borneo.
30Jun45	Luzon declared secure [fighting continued]
16July45	Atomic bomb test Alamagordo, NM
06Aug45	Hiroshima
08Aug45	USSR invades Manchuria.
09Aug45	Nagasaki
14Aug45	Japan surrenders.
02Sep45	Signing on USS Missouri
- - - - - - -
04July46	Philippine independence
24Sep49	USSR atomic bomb.
25Jun50	North Korea attacks South Korea
08May54	Dienbienphu, Vietnam

Wow, they actually have a day-by-reports for the entire war!

For example, June 1942 http://www.ww2pacific.com/42june.html

JUNE 1942 
June 1. Saratoga (CV-3) sorties San Diego for Pearl Harbor. 
June 2. Yorktown (CV-5, TF 17, RAdm Fletcher) rendezvous Enterprise (CV-6 TF 16, RAdm Spruance) and Hornet (CV-8) 350 miles NE of Midway;
RAdm Fletcher is officer in tactical command; force consists of three carriers, seven heavy cruisers, one light cruiser, 16 destroyers. 
U.S. deploys 25 fleet submarines west of Midway.
June 3. Japanese submarine cordon arrives Hawaii, but the two US task forces have already passed.
Japanese forces bearing down on Midway with five fleets and 200 ships: Strike Force is led by 4 carriers, 2 battleships, 3 cruisers, 11 destroyers. 
Midway-based B-17's attack Japanese transports 600 miles west of Midway Island; inflict no damage. Four PBYs set out to attack the approaching Occupation Force. 
Attempting to divert forces from Midway, a 2nd carrier force, Ryujo and Junyo, bomb Dutch Harbor, Alaska. 
In an event whose importance only becomes clear later, a Mitsubishi A6M2 Type 0 carrier fighter, damaged over Dutch Harbor, makes an emergency landing on Akutan Island. The Zero flips over, killing the pilot 
Task force of 5 cruisers and 4 destroyers leave Pearl for Alaska. diversion successful.

June 4. Battle of Midway
PBYs attack Occupation Force northwest of Midway; torpedoes fleet tanker Akebono Maru, little damage. 
Japanese carrier fleet - Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu - sends its aircraft against defensive installations on Midway. Although defending USMC F2A's and F4F's suffer disastrous losses, damage to facilities on Midway is comparatively slight. 
Japanese carrier fighters and antiaircraft fire annihilates the USMC SBD's and SB2U's and USAAF torpedo-carrying B-26's sent from Midway Island to attack the Japanese carriers. USAAF B-17's likewise bomb the Japanese carrier force without success. 
The TBF Grumman Avenger flown by pilots of a shore-based element of Torpedo Squadron 8, began its combat career with attacks on the Japanese Fleet ; 5 of 6 shot down. 
Concentrating on recovery of Midway air forces, the Japanese carriers were caught unprepared for the U.S. carrier air attack. 
Torpedo bombers (TBD's) from American carrier striking force Hornet (CV-8), Enterprise (CV-6), and Yorktown (CV-5) attack the enemy carriers. Although mauled by the defending combat air patrol and antiaircraft fire, they draw off the Zeros and leave the skies open for dive bombers (SBD's) from Enterprise and Yorktown. 
SBD's from Enterprise sink carrier Kaga and bomb Akagi (flagship) SBD's ; SBD's from Yorktown bomb and sink carrier Soryu. 
Submarine Nautilus (SS-168) torpedoes carrier Kaga but her "fish" do not explode. 
Hiryu escapes destruction that morning, launches dive bombers that temporarily disable Yorktown. Fletcher transfers flag to Astoria (CA-34) . 
A second Japanese counter attack 2 hours later, damages Yorktown with bombs and torpedoes so severely that she was abandoned. 
In the late afternoon, SBD's from Enterprise, mostily Yorktown planes, hit the Japanese Force again, striking Hiryu, the fourth and last of the Japanese carriers. 
TF-16 (Spruance) released at dusk to fight the next day. 
With control of the air irretrievably lost, the Japanese are compelled to abandon Midway invasion plans and the invasion force retires westward.

June 4-5. Overnight
Three Japanese fleets, with ten battleships, including Yamato, the world's largest battleship, two escort carriers, cruisers, and destroyers race to engage the U.S. carriers. 
The U.S. fleet withdraws till midnight, then returns to the protective air cover of Midway. 
Finding nothing, the Japanese battle fleets also withdraws.

June 5. Battle of Midway continues as U.S. seeks retiring Japanese fleets.
Salvage underway on crippled carrier Yorktown 
Japanese carriers Akagi and Hiryu are scuttled. Heavy cruisers Mogami and Mikuma are damaged in collision while avoiding submarine Tambor (SS-198). 
Planes from Japanese carriers Ryujo and Junyo again attack Dutch Harbor, Alaska. 
Japanese troops occupy Attu, Aleutians, without opposition. 
U.S. Task Force One of 6 battleships link up west of San Francisco. 
Long Island (AVG-1) arrives San Francisco, joins TF 1 battleships as scout.
FDR promises in-kind retrobution if Japan continues to use poison gas in China.

June 6. Battle of Midway concludes as carrier planes sink damaged heavy cruiser Mikuma.
Meanwhile, Japanese submarine I-168 finds Yorktown (CV-5) under tow, torpedoes Yorktown and destroyer Hammann (DD-412) alongside. 
Carrier TF 16 changes course to eastward to refuel and breaks contact with the enemy. 
The Battle of Midway, one of the most decisive battles in naval history, marks the turning point of the Pacific War. The decisive defeat administered to the Japanese put an end to their successful offensive and effectively turned the tide of the Pacific War.   Japanese losses total four fleet carriers, one heavy cruiser, 258 aircraft, and a large percentage of experienced carrier pilots.   United States losses are 40 shore-based and 92 carrier aircraft, and the destroyer Hammann and the carrier Yorktown, the result of a single submarine attack.   The significance of the victory was not completely recognized at the time. 
FDR warns Japan to stop using chemical weapons in China.

June 7. Carrier Yorktown (CV-5) sinks as the result of heavy damage incurred on 4 and 6 June.
In the wake of the battle, efforts to locate downed aviators persist over the ensuing days. 
Japanese troops occupy Kiska, Aleutians, without opposition. 
Saratoga replenishes Enterprise and Hornet with aircraft to go intercept Japanese Alaska task force.
June 8. Part of Japanese Midway force is sent to reinforce Alaska force : 2 BB, 1 CVE, 2 CA. 
June 9. USAAF claims victory at Midway ; in fact, no land-based aircraft hit any warships. 
Jun 10. Wasp (CV-7), North Carolina (BB-55), Quincy (CA-39), San Juan (CL-54 ) and 6 destroyers transit the Panama Canal became TF 18 (RAdm Noyes). 
Jun 10. Patrol planes discovered the presence of the enemy on Kiska and Attu -- the first news of Japanese landings that had taken place on the 7th. 
Jun 11-13. PBY Catalinas, operating from the seaplane tender Gillis in Nazan Bay, Atka Island, hit ships and enemy positions on Kiska in an intense 48-hour attack which exhausted the gasoline and bomb supply aboard the Gillis but was not successful in driving the Japanese from the Island. 
Jun 12. Japanese Alaska force further reinforced with fleet carrier Zuikaku, and 2 heavy cruisers in a last attempt to trap the U.S. carriers which had withdrawn. 
Jun 12. B-17's and B-24's raid Kiska, damaging Japanese destroyer Hibiki. 
Jun 13. Saratoga, Enterprise, Hornet return to Pearl. 
Jun 13. U-boat landing of 4 German saboteurs at Amagansett, Long Island. 
Jun 14. First echelon of 1st Marine Division (MGen Vandegrift), 5th Reg arrives at Wellington, New Zealand. 
Jun 14. First test of the bazooka shoulder-fired rocket destroys a tank. 
Jun 15. Copahee ACV-12 was commissioned at Puget Sound Navy Yard, first of 10 escort carriers (ferry) of the Bogue Class converted from merchant hulls. 
Jun 15. Seven US ships torpedoed or mined by U-boats in Caribbean this day. 
Jun 16. Congress authorized an increase in the airship strength of the Navy to 200 blimps. 
Jun 17. Pelican antisubmarine guided missile undertaken - glide bomb homes on a radar beam. 
Jun 17. FDR approves Bush report on construction of an atomic weapon. 
Jun 17. Four German agents put ashore from U-202 at Jacksonville, Fla. 
Jun 18. B-17's, B-24's, and an LB-30 (Navy B-24) bomb Japanese shipping in Kiska harbor, sinking fleet tanker Nissan Maru 
Jun 19. VAdm Ghormley assumes command of South Pacific Area at Auckland, New Zealand. 
Jun 19. Ballard (AVD-10) rescues 35 survivors (found by PBY) from Japanese carrier Hiryu scuttled 5 June. They had been left below for dead. 
Jun 20. Japanese submarine I-26 shells Estevan Point, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. 
Jun 21. PBY recovers two-man crew from TBD; these are the last survivors recovered from the Battle of Midway. 
Jun 21. Japanese submarine I-25 shells Fort Stevens, Oregon. 
Jun 21. Rommel captures city of Tobruk in North Africa and 25,000 Allied troops. 
Jun 22. Carrier Saratoga (CV-3) departs Pearl to ferry planes to Midway. 
Jun 23. Start of V-Mail. 
Jun 24. John R. Williams is sunk by German mine off Cape May, N.J. 
Jun 25. Saratoga delivers 25 P-40's and 18 SBD's to Midway to replace heavy losses of 4 June.
Pres Roosevelt and PM Churchill reach decision in Washington to combine R&D of atomic bomb.
U.S. Army establishes European Theater of Operations under MGen Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Jun 25. PBYs bomb Japanese base at Tulagi, Solomon Islands 
Jun 26. Rommel advances half-way across Egypt. 
Jun 26. Germany announces unrestricted submarine warfare off U.S. Atlantic Coast. 
Jun 26. Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter flew first test flight. 
Jun 27. Five American ships sunk by five U-boats. 
Jun 28. Fletcher promoted to Vice Admiral with Saratoga [flag] for So Pacfic. 
Jun 28. Eleven U.S. ships sunk off Atlantic coast by U-boats this week. 
Jun 29. Saratoga returns to Pearl from ferrying planes to Midway. 
Jun 30. XPBS Excalibur with Adm Nimitz and his staff to San Francisco crashes upon landing off Alameda, CA; pilot killed. 
Jun 30. Japanese reinforcement convoy escorted by 4 carriers to Kiska, Aleutians, Alaska. 
June .   Conference on bomb design led to central laboratory for the atomic bomb project.