Diary March 18, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Saturday, March 18, 1944: Home Fronts Italy: Eruptions from Mt Vesuvius; 2 villages engulfed by lava; 26 killed (March 18-22). Hungary: Regent Horthy visits Hitler to […]
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WW2 War Diary for Saturday, March 18, 1944: Home Fronts Italy: Eruptions from Mt Vesuvius; 2 villages engulfed by lava; 26 killed (March 18-22). Hungary: Regent Horthy visits Hitler to […]
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WW2 War Diary for Friday, March 17, 1944: Mediterranean Italy: NZ troops take Cassino railway station. Sea War Mediterranean: U-boat U-371 sinks US troopship Dempo (498 killed). Politics Finland: Government
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WW2 War Diary for Thursday, March 16, 1944: Mediterranean Italy: Three-quarters of Cassino town now in Allied hands. Occupied Territories France: Deat appointed Vichy Minister of Labour.
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WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, March 15, 1944: Air War Mediterranean: Europe: Allied bombers obliterate Cassino town, dropping 1,107 t. bombs. Germany: 1,000 RAF 4-engined bombers raid Stuttgart, dropping 3,000
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WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, March 14, 1944: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Malinovsky eliminates German pocket near Nikolayev (10,000 killed, 4,000 captured). Occupied Territories Italy: Virginio Gayda, retired editor of
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WW2 War Diary for Monday, March 13, 1944: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Malinovsky captures Dnieper river port of Kherson. Sea War Atlantic: U-boat U-852 fires on survivors of torpedoed Greek
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WW2 War Diary for Sunday, March 12, 1944: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Uman (Ukraine) captured by 2nd Ukrainian Front. Occupied Territories Czechoslovakia: Government in London broadcasts call to arms.
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WW2 War Diary for Saturday, March 11, 1944: Air War Mediterranean: US bombers raid Toulon, Padua and Florence. Home Fronts Algeria: Pierre Pucheu, former Vichy Minister of Interior, sentenced to
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WW2 War Diary for Friday, March 10, 1944: Eastern Front Southern Sector: 2nd Ukrainian Front has advanced up to 71 km in 5 days.
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WW2 War Diary for Thursday, March 9, 1944: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Malinovsky (3rd Ukrainian Front) crosses river Ingulets. Pacific Solomons: Japanese counter-offensive against Torokina Bridgehead (Bougainville); 5,469 Japanese and
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WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, March 8, 1944: Air War Germany: 8th USAAF bombs with 540 B-17 Fortress and B-24 Liberator planes Erkner ball-bearing factory, near Berlin.
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WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, March 7, 1944: Southeast Asia Burma – JAPANESE LAUNCH MAJOR OFFENSIVE ACROSS RIVER CHINDWIN (Operation U-Go): Americans and Chinese surround 2,000 Japanese in Hukawng Valley.
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WW2 War Diary for Monday, March 6, 1944: Air War Germany – FIRST MAJOR ALLIED DAYLIGHT RAID ON BERLIN: 730 B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberators of 8th AF (69
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WW2 War Diary for Sunday, March 5, 1944: Air War Southeast Asia – SECOND CHINDIT OPERATION: Allied planes transport 9,000 men of Wingate’s ‘Long Range Penetration Groups’ to secretly prepared
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WW2 War Diary for Saturday, March 4, 1944: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Russian 1st and 2nd UFs capture Uman and Nouvoukrainka (March 4-10). Air War Germany: 30 B-17 Fortress bomb
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