Diary August 20, 1944

08-1944, Diary WW2, War Diary, Year 1944 / 1 minute of reading

Column of German prisoners from Falaise Pocket — A column of the 45,000 German prisoners from the Falaise pocket. However, because of Allied delays the bulk of the German 7th Army and 5th Panzer Army are withdrawn in time.

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 Eugen bombards Russian position on Gulf of Riga.

WESTERN FRONT
Falaise Gap closed by Allied forces; British capture Argentan. Americans establish bridgehead over the Seine at Mantes-Gassicourt, northwest of Paris. De Gaulle lands at Cherbourg.

AIR WAR
Europe: 142 Russian planes attack U-boats and shipping at Constanta.

OCCUPIED FRANCE
Resistance forces capture Toulouse and set fire to Paix oil refinery at Douai.

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My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.

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