Year 1944

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, September 3, 1944: Western Front BRUSSELS LIBERATED by British forces after lightening dash of 362 km in 4 days. US and French troops enter Lyons. […]

WW2 War Diary for Friday, September 1, 1944: Western Front Canadians occupy Dieppe, which is abandoned by the Germans. British troops reach Arras; USA soldiers capture Verdun. Montgomery promoted to

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, August 31, 1944 Russian Front Russians occupy Bucharest after advancing 56 km from Ploesti inside a day. Big crowds welcome the falsely expected liberators. Western

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, August 30, 1944 Russian Front Russians occupy Ploesti. Western Front Canadians take Rouen; British take Beauvais, north of Paris; Americans at Rheims and Chalons-sur­-Marne. Air

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, August 29, 1944 Russian Front German Army Group South Ukraine ordered to hold Carpathian Mountains and Transylvanian Alps. Western Front Americans capture Soissons, 89 km

WW2 War Diary for Monday, August 28, 1944 Western Front Americans reach Chateau-Thierry. British gain another bridgehead on lower Seine. Air War Britain: 90 out of 97 V-1s directed against

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, August 27, 1944 Western Front Allied forces reach river Marne. French capture Toulon. Air War Germany: 611 RAF bombers attacking Kiel. RAF bombers dropping 2,381t

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, August 26, 1944 Western Front Allied forces pour across the Seine at four points between Paris and the sea. Air War Western Europe: 110 killed

WW2 War Diary for Friday, August 25, 1944: WESTERN FRONT DE GAULLE ENTERS PARIS. German garrison, Cdr.-General von Choltilz, surrenders in left­luggage office of Montparnasse Station, after openly disobeying Hitler’s

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, August 24, 1944: WESTERN FRONT French 2nd Armored Division enters Paris. Allied forces take Cannes. HOME FRONTS Germany: All theaters, music-halls and cabarets to be

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, August 23, 1944: WESTERN FRONT Allied forces capture Evreux (Normandy), Melun (southeast of Paris) and Marseilles; Americans reach Grenoble. Eisenhower vetoes Montgomery’s plan for bold

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, August 22, 1944: WESTERN FRONT Americans capture Sens, southeast of Paris. ITALY Polish and Italian Co-Belligerent forces of British Eight Army reach Metauro river, 48

WW2 War Diary for Monday, August 21, 1944: RUSSIAN FRONT Germans retreat towards river Pruth in East Romania. WESTERN FRONT Allied forces cross the Seine, north and south of Paris.

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, August 20, 1944: RUSSIAN FRONT 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts attack German-Romanian Army Group South; Romanian 3rd Army broken. SEA WAR German heavy cruiser Prinz

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, August 19, 1944: OCCUPIED FRANCE UPRISING IN PARIS by FFI (Resistance). Vichy Government flees to Belfort. Petain arrested and taken to Germany. HOME FRONTS Britain:

WW2 War Diary for Friday, August 18, 1944: WESTERN FRONT Germans retreating through ‘Falaise Gap‘ are decimated by Allied Air Forces. SEA WAR Pacific: Japanese carrier Taiyo sunk by US

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, August 17, 1944: WESTERN FRONT FALAISE CAPTURED by British-Canadian forces; Americans take Dreux, Chartres, Chateaudun and Orleans. RUSSIAN FRONT Russian guns bombard German territory –

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, August 16, 1944: WESTERN FRONT Allied seaborne and airborne forces link up in southern France. AIR WAR Europe: Me 163 rocket fighters intercept B-17 Fortress

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, August 15, 1944: SEA AND AIR WAR Operation Anvil, later Dragoon: ALLIED 7TH ARMY LANDS IN SOUTHERN FRANCE between Nice and Toulon; airborne forces land