WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, August 18, 1943: Sea War Mediterranean: British submarine Saracen sunk by Italian corvette Minerva off Bastia. Politics Portugal: Anglo-Portuguese Agreement on establishment of air bases […]
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WW2 War Diary for Saturday, August 17, 1943: Air War Germany – FIRST SCHWEINFURT RAID: 230 8th USAAF B-17 Fortress bomb ball-bearing works at Schweinfurt and 146 B-17s bomb Regensburg;
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WW2 War Diary for Monday, August 16, 1943: Home Fronts Italy: Anti-Fascist parties issue joint demand for peace and release of political prisoners. Pacific New Guinea: Australian and American troops
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WW2 War Diary for Sunday, August 15, 1943: Mediterranean Sicily: Allies capture Milazzo and Taormina and threaten Axis rearguard around Messina from west and south. Air War Britain: 90-plane raid
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WW2 War Diary for Saturday, August 14, 1943: Politics Canada – FIRST QUEBEC CONFERENCE (‘Quadrant’): Churchill and Roosevelt decide to launch cross-Channel invasion (Overlord), May 1, 1944 employing artificial harbours
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WW2 War Diary for Friday, August 13, 1943: Sea War Mediterranean: Convoy MKS.21 attacked by He 111 torpedo planes of KG 26. Germans claim devastating results, but only 2 ships
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WW2 War Diary for Thursday, August 12, 1943: Air War Germany: 330 heavy bombers of 8th AF (25 lost) despatched to the Ruhr and Bonn. Strong defences, thick cloud and
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WW2 War Diary for Sunday, August 11, 1943: Eastern Front Southern Sector: German forces in Kharkov face threat of encirclement; Poltava-Kharkov railway cut in 3 places, west of city. Sea
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WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, August 10, 1943: Air War Germany: First of 2 massive RAF night raids on Nuremberg in August; total of 3,444t bombs dropped for the loss
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WW2 War Diary for Monday, August 9, 1943: Air War Germany: RAF night raids on Mannheim and Ludwigshafen.
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WW2 War Diary for Sunday, August 8, 1943: Home Fronts Italy: Mussolini imprisoned. Mediterranean Sicily: Allies occupy 5 towns.
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WW2 War Diary for Saturday, August 7, 1943: Eastern Front Central sector: Russian ‘West’ and ‘Bryansk Fronts’ (army groups) attack strong German defences east of Smolensk. Northern sector: 2,133 members
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WW2 War Diary for Friday, August 6, 1943: Mediterranean Sicily: Troina, near Mt Etna, falls to Americans after 5 days’ heavy fighting. Sea War Pacific – Battle of Vella Gulf
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WW2 War Diary for Thursday, August 5, 1943: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Orel and Belgorod taken by Russians. Mediterranean Sicily: British troops take Catania. Pacific Solomons: Americans capture Munda Airfield
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WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, August 4, 1943: Air War Mediterranean: B-17 Fortress bomb Naples harbour and factories; Cathedral and Royal Palace also hit. 150 killed, 228 injured.
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