WW2 War Diary for Monday, August 2, 1943: Mediterranean Sicily: British and Canadians oust Germans from hill-top strongholds of Centuripe and Regalbuto; Gerbini airfield complex captured. Politics Portugal: Italian Ambassador […]
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WW2 War Diary for Sunday, August 1, 1943: Air War Eastern Europe: 164 B-24 Liberator bombers (56 lost) make low-level attack on Ploesti Oilfields, Rumania (Operation Tidal Wave). Mediterranean: 25
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WW2 War Diary for Saturday, July 31, 1943: Sea War North Sea: British carrier-based Martlet (US F-4 Wildcat) fighters shoot down 5 Bv 138 reconnaissance flying boats off Norway. Merchant
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WW2 War Diary for Friday, July 30, 1943: Air War Germany: 8th AF raids Fieseler aircraft works at Kassel. RAF night attack with 228 bombers and 693t bombs on Remscheid
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WW2 War Diary for Thursday, July 29, 1943: Air War Germany: 726 RAF bombers raid Hamburg and dropping 2,277t of bombs.
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WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, July 28, 1943: Air War Germany: B-17 Fortress bomb Focke-Wulf works at Oschersleben. Mediterranean Sicily: Canadian troops capture Leonforte, northeast of Enna. Sea War Pacific:
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WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, July 27, 1943: Air War Germany – OPERATION GOMORRHA: FIRE STORM ENGULFS HAMBURG. Numerous major fires started 3 nights earlier are stoked up by renewed
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WW2 War Diary for Monday, July 26, 1943: Sea War Atlantic: 4 British merchant ships bombed northwest of Lisbon (July 26 and 27). Home Fronts Italy: Fascist Party dissolved. Marshal
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WW2 War Diary for Sunday, July 25, 1943: Home Fronts Italy: MUSSOLINI RESIGNS and is arrested on the orders of King Victor Emmanuel. Air War Germany: Damaging raid on Hamburg
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WW2 War Diary for Saturday, July 24, 1943: Air War Germany: BATTLE OF HAMBURG begins with raid by 741 RAF bombers (12 lost). Millions of metal-coated paper strips (‘Window’) dropped
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WW2 War Diary for Friday, July 23, 1943: Mediterranean Sicily: American troops capture Marsala. Sea War Mediterranean: Cruiser Newfoundland torpedoed by U-boat U-407.
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WW2 War Diary for Thursday, July 22, 1943: Mediterranean Sicily: Palermo captured by US 7th Army. Air War Southeast Asia: B-24 Liberator bombers raid Surabaya (Dutch East India). Germany: 250
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WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, July 21, 1943: Occupied Territories Yugoslavia: Nazi authorities in Belgrade offer 2 rewards of 100,000 Reichsmarks for capture ‘dead or alive’ of Partisan leaders Tito
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WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, July 20, 1943: Home Fronts USSR: ‘Free Germany National Committee’ broadcasts Manifesto to German Army and people. Mediterranean Sicily: Allied troops capture Enna, vital centre
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WW2 War Diary for Monday, July 19, 1943: Air War Mediterranean – FIRST ALLIED RAIDS ON ROME: 158 B-17 Forrtess and 112 B-24 Liberator bombers attack Lorenzo and Littorio marshalling
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