Year 1943

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, December 11, 1943: Air War Germany: Heavy 8th USAAF raid on Emden U-boat yards (20 planes lost). Americans ‘claim 138’ (!) German fighters shot down. […]

WW2 War Diary for Friday, December 10, 1943: Air War Britain: Night raid on Chelmsford; one Mosquito night-fighter destroys 3 Do 217 bombers.

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, December 9, 1943: Medierranean Italy: Important peaks, Monte Camino and Monte Maggiore, secured by 5th US Army after 9 days’ heavy fighting. Far East China:

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, December 8, 1943: Sea War Pacific: US battleships and destroyers pound Nauru Island; US destroyer Boyd damaged by Japanese batteries.

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, December 7, 1943: Home Fronts USA: Battleship Wisconsin launched at Philadelphia Navy Yard.

WW2 War Diary for Monday, December 6, 1943: Mediterranean Italy: British 8th Army crosses river Moro.

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, December 5, 1943: Air War Western Europe: Fighter-bombers of RAF, 2nd TAF, and US 9th AF attack V-1 launching sites in Pas de Calais. Far

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, December 4, 1943: Sea War Pacific: US Fast Carrier Task Force raids Kwajalein: 386 planes (5 lost) sink 6 transports and damage 2 cruisers. 55

WW2 War Diary for Friday, December 3, 1943: Air War Germany: Goering orders Peltz – commanding German bomber forces in the West – ‘To avenge the terror attacks of the

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, December 2, 1943: Air War Mediterranean – Bari air raid disaster: 96 German bombers carry out low-level night raid on Bari in Italy (2 munition

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, December 1, 1943: Air War Germany: B-17 Fortress bombers attack Solingen, east of Duesseldorf, for second successive day.

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, November 30, 1943: Eastern Front Central Sector: Russians now within 11 km of Zhlobin. Sea War Merchant shipping losses in November 1943: 14 Allied ships

WW2 War Diary for Monday, November 29, 1943: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Fierce fighting in Kiev Salient; SS Panzer divisions in action. Occupied Territories Yugoslavia: National Partisan Assembly appoints Tito

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, November 28, 1943: Politics CONFERENCE AT TEHERAN (ends December 1): British and Americans give top priority to Operation Overlord. Soviet forces to fight Japan after

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, November 27, 1943: Eastern Front Central Sector: Russians close in from 3 directions on Zhlobin, vital rail junction northwest of Gomel.

WW2 War Diary for Friday, Novenber 26, 1943: Sea War Mediterranean: British troopship Rohna sunk by Hs 293 glider-bomb off Bougie, Algeria (1,115 killed). Pacific New Guinea: Australians capture Sattelberg.

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, November 25, 1943: Air War Western Europe: US planes attack 2 airfields near St Orner. RAF light bombers and fighters attack numerous targets in North

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, November 24, 1943: Home Fronts Germany: Goebbels issues proclamation to citizens of Berlin: ‘Our will to win is unshakable.’ He exhorts Berliners to defy RAF

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, November 23, 1943: Eastern Front Central Sector: Gomel (Byelorussia) virtually encircled by Russians. Southern Sector: Russians counter-attack near Kiev.

WW2 War Diary for Monday, November 22, 1943: Air War Germany: First ‘2,000-ton’ RAF night raid on Berlin. Mediterranean: Ju 87 Stukas attack Tigani on Samos; Allied garrison surrenders November