Diary August 5, 1944

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

16.5 feet (ca. 5 m) strong reinforced concrete slab of a U-Boat bunker destroyed by a Grand Slam.

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 12,000-lb bombs.

AIR WAR: RUSSIAN FRONT
Finnish ace, Major Luukkanen (54 victories) shoots down 20 Russian planes in his Me 109, June 14-August 5.

HOME FRONT: AUSTRALIA
Japanese PoWs attempt mass break-out from camp in NSW: 231 Japanese and 3 guards killed (August 5-6).

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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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