WW2 War Diary for Friday, August 11, 1944: WESTERN FRONT Americans capture Angers and Nantes. ITALY German forces evacuate Florence. SEA WAR Germans scuttle 26 warships and 28 merchant vessels […]
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WW2 War Diary for Thursday, August 10, 1944: NEW GUINEA Japanese withdraw from Aitape sector towards Wewak. AIR WAR: PACIFIC USAAF begins 7 month bombardment of Iwo Jima. MARINAS Americans
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WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, August 9, 1944: WESTERN FRONT Americans capture Le Mans. AIR WAR Captain A de Saint-Exupery disappears during reconnaissance mission from Corsica over occupied France; aged
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WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, August 8, 1944: WESTERN FRONT Canadians push towards Falaise, supported by 600 US bombers. HOME FRONT: GERMANY FM von WitzleÂben and 7 other ‘July Plotters’
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WW2 War Diary for Monday, Augfust 7, 1944: WESTERN FRONT Panzers counter-attacking east of Avranches are decimated by Allied bombers and rocket-firing Typhoons; but Germans continue attacking. Canadian 1st Army
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WW2 War Diary for Sunday, August 6, 1944: WESTERN FRONT German Panzers counter-attack US forces in Mortain-Vire sector (begins night August 6- 7). AIR WAR: PACIFIC B-24 Liberators bomb Davao
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WW2 War Diary for Saturday, August 5, 1944: WESTERN FRONT US Armour reaches Redon (Brittany). British capture Villers Bocage. AIR WAR: EUROPE RAF blast open U-boat pens at Brest, using
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WW2 War Diary for Friday, August 4, 1944: WESTERN FRONT British 2nd Army tanks reach Villers Bocage, for second time since ‘D-Day’. AIR WAR Gloster Meteor jet fighter in combat
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WW2 War Diary for Thursday, August 3, 1944: WESTERN FRONT US tanks reach Rennes (Brittany). BURMA Chinese capture Myitkyina (Northeast Burma). SEA WAR: PACIFIC US carrier planes attack shipping in
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WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, August 2, 1944: WESTERN FRONT Americans reach Vire, south of Caumont. SEA WAR ‘Linse’ (‘Lentil’) ‘explosive boats’ sink destroyer ‘Quorn’ (night August 2-3) DIPLOMACY Turkey
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WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, August 1, 1944: OCCUPIED POLAND WARSAW RISING: Polish ‘Home Army‘ (Armija Krajawa) begins heroic 53-day struggle against German garrison. RUSSIAN FRONT 3rd Belorussian Front captures
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