Year 1943

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, December 16, 1943: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Novoseltsy, southeast of Cherkassy, captured by Russians.

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, December 15, 1943: Eastern Front Northern Sector: Bagramyovs’ 1st Baltic Front attacks south of Nevel and quickly punches hole, 80 km wide and 30 km

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, December 14, 1943: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Cherkassy captured by Russian 2nd UF after 5 days’ house-to-house fighting. 6,000 Germans killed; Russians push on west

WW2 War Diary for Monday, December1 3, 1943: Air War Germany: Heavy US bomber raid on Kiel, Bremen, Hamburg with 1,462 bombers. First use of P-51 Mustang long-range escort fighters

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, December 12, 1943: Home Fronts Germany: ROMMEL APPOINTED C-in-C OF ‘FORTRESS EUROPE’. Politics Czechoslovak-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance. Sea War Mediterranean: British destroyers

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, December 11, 1943: Air War Germany: Heavy 8th USAAF raid on Emden U-boat yards (20 planes lost). Americans ‘claim 138’ (!) German fighters shot down.

WW2 War Diary for Friday, December 10, 1943: Air War Britain: Night raid on Chelmsford; one Mosquito night-fighter destroys 3 Do 217 bombers.

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, December 9, 1943: Medierranean Italy: Important peaks, Monte Camino and Monte Maggiore, secured by 5th US Army after 9 days’ heavy fighting. Far East China:

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, December 8, 1943: Sea War Pacific: US battleships and destroyers pound Nauru Island; US destroyer Boyd damaged by Japanese batteries.

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, December 7, 1943: Home Fronts USA: Battleship Wisconsin launched at Philadelphia Navy Yard.

WW2 War Diary for Monday, December 6, 1943: Mediterranean Italy: British 8th Army crosses river Moro.

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, December 5, 1943: Air War Western Europe: Fighter-bombers of RAF, 2nd TAF, and US 9th AF attack V-1 launching sites in Pas de Calais. Far

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, December 4, 1943: Sea War Pacific: US Fast Carrier Task Force raids Kwajalein: 386 planes (5 lost) sink 6 transports and damage 2 cruisers. 55

WW2 War Diary for Friday, December 3, 1943: Air War Germany: Goering orders Peltz – commanding German bomber forces in the West – ‘To avenge the terror attacks of the

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, December 2, 1943: Air War Mediterranean – Bari air raid disaster: 96 German bombers carry out low-level night raid on Bari in Italy (2 munition