Year 1944

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. […]

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

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

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

WW2 War Diary for Friday, March 3, 1944: Home Fronts USA: Roosevelt announces that Italian Fleet is to be distributed equally between USA, Britain and USSR (in the event, Russia

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, March 2, 1944: Air War Western Europe: Lancaster and Halifax bombers attack aircraft factories at Meulan-les-Mureaux and Albert (France). Germany: 503 RAF bombers attacking Stuttgart

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, March 1, 1944: Home Fronts Germany: Jaegerstab (Fighter Staff) set up under Saur of Speer’s Armaments Ministry to boost production of Me 109 and FW

WW2 War Diary for Monday, February 28, 1944: Mediterranean Italy: Renewed German onslaught at Anzio.

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, February 27, 1944: Home Fronts Argentina: Peron appointed War Minister. Eastern Front Southern Sector: Russians capture Bezhakitsy east of Chelm (Poland).

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, February 26, 1944: Air War Pacific: 200 Allied planes attack Rabaul, destroying munition dumps. Eastern Front: 600 Russian bombers (3 lost) raid Helsinki between 6

WW2 War Diary for Friday, February 25, 1944: Air War Germany – Climax of ‘Big Week’: 830 bombers of US 8th AF (30 lost) and 150 bombers of 15th AF

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, February 24, 1944: Eastern Front Northern Sector: 2nd BF captures Dno junction, east of Pskov. 1st BRF captures Rogachev. Southeast Asi Burma: British capture Nyakyedyauk

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, February 23, 1944: Sea War Pacific: TF 58 attacks air bases on Mariana Islands. Home Fronts USA: Death of Dr Baekeland, Belgian-born inventor of ‘bakelite’;

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, February 22, 1944: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Krivoi Rog, iron-mining centre in Donbas, captured by 3rd UF. Stalin issues two Orders of the Day: first,

WW2 War Diary for Monday, February 21, 1944: Southeast Asia Burma: 5th Indian Division clears Japanese from commanding heights in the Arakan. Politics Ireland: US note to Eire requests expulsion

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, February 20, 1944: Air War Germany – ‘BIG WEEK’ (Operation Argument): heavy bombers (164 lost) of US 8th and 15th Air Forces fly 3,800 sorties

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, February 19, 1944: Air War Germany: First heavy defeat of Royal Air Force in a night raid on Germany. RAF loses 79 night bombers (out

WW2 War Diary for Friday, February 18, 1944: Air War Western Europe – Amiens Prison Raid: 19 Mosquito bombers (4 lost), led by Group-Captain Pickard (shot down by 2 Fw

WW2 War Diary for Tursday, February 17, 1944: Sea War Pacific – THE TRUK RAID: 9 carriers of Admirals Mitscher’s TF 58 launch massive air strikes (February 17 and 18)

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, February 16, 1944: Mediterranean Italy – Anzio: Germans drive deep salient into Allied line south of the ‘Factory’. Devastating artillery and air bombardment of entire