Year 1944

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, April 16, 1944: Occupied Territories Hungary: Eichmann begins systematic concentration of 800,000 Hungarian Jews in ghettos prior to their deportation to Auschwitz. Concentration phase completed […]

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, April 15, 1944: Air War Southeast Europe: 15th US Air Force sends 500 sorties to Bucharest and Ploesti.

WW2 War Diary for Friday, April 14, 1944: Eastern Front Southern Sector: 1st and 2nd UFs capture Tarnopol (southeast of Lvov) and reach the Carpathians – driving massive wedge between

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, April 13, 1944 Air War Western Europe: US and British TAFs carry out heavy attacks on German coastal batteries in Normandy. Germany: 2,000 USAAF bombers

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, April 12, 1944: Eastern Front Southern Sector: 3rd Ukrainian Front captures Tirasapol, 97 km northwest of Odessa. Occupied Territories Italy: King Victor Emmanuel announces his

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, April 11, 1944: Home Fronts Southern Sector: Russians advance on Simferopol (Crimea). Air War Western Europe: 6 RAF de Havilland Mosquito bombers destroy Central Population

WW2 War Diary for Monday, April 10, 1944: Eastern Front Southern Sector: ODESSA CAPTURED by Russian 3rd Ukrainian Front and Partisans. Sea War Atlantic: U-boats U-515 and U-68 sunk by

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, April 9, 1944: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Bukovina region completely occupied by Russians. Occupied Territories France: Giraud appointed Inspector-General of Free French Army.

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, April 8, 1944: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Russian 4th Ukrainian Front launches Crimean offensive. 1st Ukrainian Front reaches Czech border.

WW2 War Diary for Friday, April 7, 1944: Home Fronts Germany: Goebbels appointed ‘City President of Berlin’, superseding Oberbuergermeister (Lord Mayor). Eastern Front Southern Sector: German forces encircled near Tarnopol

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, April 6, 1944: Southeast Asia Burma – SIEGE OF KOHIMA: Japanese besiege 3,500 British-Indian troops for 13 days; savage hand-to-hand fighting. Eastern Front Southern Sector:

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, April 5, 1944: Air War Eastern Europe: Ploesti oil installations and rail sidings fired by 15th AF B-17 Fortress and B-24 Liberator bombers, with strong

WW2 War Diary for April 4, 1944: Air War Eastern Europe: Bucharest marshalling yards ‘blitzed’ by heavily escorted 15th AF B-17 Fortress and B-24 Liberator bombers (20 lost); fighters attack

WW2 War Diary for Monday, April 3, 1944: Sea War Arctic – Operation Tungsten: 41 FAA Fairey Barracudas (4 lost), escorted by 41 fighters, score 14 hits on Battleship Tirpitz

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, April 2, 1944: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Russians enter East Rumania. Occupied Territories Italy: Communist Party supports Badoglio Government in the south. Neutrals El Salvador:

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, April 1, 1944: Eastern Front Southern Sector: 1st Ukrainian Front reaches Jablonica (Tartar) Pass.

WW2 War Diary for Friday, March 31, 1944: Sea War Merchant shipping losses in March 1944: 8 Allied ships with 41,562 tons in Atlantic, 17 Allied ships with 116,398 tons

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, March 30, 1944: Air War Germany – NUREMBURG RAID: German night fighters score their greatest victory, destroying 94 (total of 108 including write-offs and crash

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, March 28, 1944: Sea War Black Sea: 24,145 German and Rumanian troops and wounded evacuated from Odessa (March 28-April 10). Home Fronts Canada: Death of