Diary WW2

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, January 16, 1944: Air War Germany: B-17 Fortress attack Messerschmitt factory at Klagenfurt (Austria). Pacific New Britain: Americans defeat final Japanese counter-attack on New Britain.

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, January 15, 1944: Mediterranean Italy: 5th US Army captures Monte Trocchio. Germans pull back over river Rapido. Neutrals Argentina: Earthquake destroys city of San Juan

WW2 War Diary for Friday, January 14, 1944: Eastern Front Northern Sector: FINAL RUSSIAN COUNTER-OFFENSIVE AT LENINGRAD. 1,000 guns and 17 warships of Baltic Fleet pour 500,000 shells into Finnskoyo-Koirovo

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, January 13, 1944: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Korets (Rovno sector) taken by Russians.

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, January 12, 1944: Mediterranean Italy: General Juin’s French Expeditionary Corps captures important German strong-points near Monte Santa Croce, north of Cassino (January 12-14). 5th US

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, January 11, 1944: Sea War Indian Ocean: Japanese cruiser Kuma sunk by British submarine Tally Ho. U-boats of Monsun group sink 17 ships (January-March), but

WW2 War Diary for Monday, January 10, 1944: Mediterranean Italy: 5th US Army crosses river Peccia. Südost-Asien Burma: British troops capture Maungdaw.

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, January 9, 1944: Home Fronts USA: Major-General Bedell Smith appointed COS to General Eisenhower. Antanas Smetona, ex-dictator of Lithuania, killed in fire at Cleveland, Ohio;

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, January 8, 1944: Air War USA:: First flight of Lockheed XP-80 Shooting Star jet fighter from Muroc Dry Lake. 5,000 ordered, but none operational before

WW2 War Diary for Friday, January 7, 1944: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Koniev’s 2nd UF breaks through in Kirovograd sector – creating a ‘bulge’ 40 km deep by 97 km

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, January 6, 1944: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Rokitno (East Poland) captured by Russians. Air War Britain/USA: Joint RAF-USAAF statement discloses the hitherto secret development of

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, January 5, 1944: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Russian 2nd UF drives salient into German lines at Kirovograd, south of Kiev (January 5-8). Mediterranean Italy: Lieutenant-General

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, January 4, 1944: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Red Army cross Polish frontier near Olevsk; Byelaya Tserkov, 64 km southwest of Kiev, captured. Mediterranean Italy: 5th

WW2 War Diary for Monday, January 3, 1944: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Red Army now 15 miles (24 km) from old Polish frontier. Air War Germany: 311 RAF bombers attacking

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, January 2, 1944: Air War Pacific: First of 14 Allied bombing raids on airfields and shipping at Rabaul during the month. Germany: 386 RAF bombers

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, January 1, 1944: Air War Germany: RAF raids Berlin on six nights in January. Eastern Front Southern Sector: Russians capture Belokovorichi, only 43 km east

WW2 War Diary for Friday, December 31, 1943: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Russians storm Zhitomir – routing German garrison – and sweep westwards towards pre-war Polish frontier. Home Fronts USA:

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, December 30, 1943: Sea War North Sea: Battleships HMS Queen Elizabeth, Valiant, Renown and aircraft carriers Illustrious and Unicorn leave Scapa Flow and the Clyde

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, December 29, 1943: Eastern Front Southern Sector: New Russian offensive under way in Dnieper Bend, west of Zaporozhe.

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, December 28, 1943: Mediterranean Italy: Canadian troops capture Ortona (Adriatic coast) after prolonged, savage, house-to-house fighting with German paratroops and Panzer-Grenadiers, supported by tanks concealed