WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, Juyl 26, 1944: Marianas Heavy artillery barrage heralds successful US attack on jungleÂ-covered Orote Peninsular on Guma. Marines smash JapanÂese counter-attack on northern beachhead. Home […]
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WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, July 25, 1944: Air War Europe 8th and 9th USAAF’s drop 4,000 t. bombs on German defenses in small area near St Lo. Germany: 614
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WW2 War Diary for Monday, July 24, 1944: Italy Americans reach Pisa. Sea War Pacific Americans land on Tinian (Mariana Islands). Home Front Germany Wehrmacht ordered to use Nazi salute.
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WW2 War Diary for Sunday, July 23, 1944: Russian Front 3rd Belorussian Front captures Pskov. 1st Belorussian Front captures Lublin and Maidanek extermination camp. Occupied France Resistance sets fire to
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WW2 War Diary for Saturday, July 22, 1944: Occupied France SS destroy village of St Gingolph.
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WW2 War Diary for Friday, July 21, 1944: Sea War Pacific AMERICANS LAND ON GUAM (Mariana Islands). Home Front Germany Himmler appointed commander of Home Army; Guderian, COGS. Von Stülpnagel,
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WW2 War Diary for Thursday, July 20, 1944: Home Front Germany: HITLER NARROWLY ESCAPES ASSASSINATION. Colonel Count von Stauffenberg leaves bomb in conference room at WolfssÂchanze (‘Wolfs Lair‘), Rastenburg, East
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WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, July 19, 1944: Mediterranean Italy: Leghorn captured by 5th US Army.
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WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, July 18, 1944: Home Front Japan TOJO RESIGNS, General Koiso and Admiral Yonai appointed Co-Premiers, July 19; General Umezu appointed COAGS. Western Front Americans capture
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WW2 War Diary for Monday, July 17, 1944: Western Front: ROMMEL BADLY WOUNDED by low-flying RAF Spitfire fighters. Home Front Russia: 57,000 Germans, captured in Byelorussia, are paraded through streets
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WW2 War Diary for Sunday, July 16, 1944: Russian Front: Germans launch fruitless counterattack against 3rd BRF’s bridge-heads over river Niemen.
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WW2 War Diary for Saturday, July 15, 1944: Russian Front: Russians halt in Karelian Isthmus. Italy: British 8th Army breaks through at Arezzo and reaches river Arno (July 15-16). 5th
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WW2 War Diary for Friday, July 14, 1944: Russian Front: Russians capture Pinsk. Occupied France: Vichy announces death of Georges Mandel, former Minister of Interior; murdered by the Milice (Vichy
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WW2 War Diary for Thursday, July 13, 1944: Secret War Britain: Pilot of Ju 88 G night fighter equipped with special radar and radio homing equipment lands by mistake at
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WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, July 12, 1944: Western Front Normandy: Brigade-General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., CGM, dies of heart attack.
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