Year 1943

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, December 1, 1943: Air War Germany: B-17 Fortress bombers attack Solingen, east of Duesseldorf, for second successive day.

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, November 30, 1943: Eastern Front Central Sector: Russians now within 11 km of Zhlobin. Sea War Merchant shipping losses in November 1943: 14 Allied ships

WW2 War Diary for Monday, November 29, 1943: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Fierce fighting in Kiev Salient; SS Panzer divisions in action. Occupied Territories Yugoslavia: National Partisan Assembly appoints Tito

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, November 28, 1943: Politics CONFERENCE AT TEHERAN (ends December 1): British and Americans give top priority to Operation Overlord. Soviet forces to fight Japan after

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, November 27, 1943: Eastern Front Central Sector: Russians close in from 3 directions on Zhlobin, vital rail junction northwest of Gomel.

WW2 War Diary for Friday, Novenber 26, 1943: Sea War Mediterranean: British troopship Rohna sunk by Hs 293 glider-bomb off Bougie, Algeria (1,115 killed). Pacific New Guinea: Australians capture Sattelberg.

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, November 25, 1943: Air War Western Europe: US planes attack 2 airfields near St Orner. RAF light bombers and fighters attack numerous targets in North

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, November 24, 1943: Home Fronts Germany: Goebbels issues proclamation to citizens of Berlin: ‘Our will to win is unshakable.’ He exhorts Berliners to defy RAF

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, November 23, 1943: Eastern Front Central Sector: Gomel (Byelorussia) virtually encircled by Russians. Southern Sector: Russians counter-attack near Kiev.

WW2 War Diary for Monday, November 22, 1943: Air War Germany: First ‘2,000-ton’ RAF night raid on Berlin. Mediterranean: Ju 87 Stukas attack Tigani on Samos; Allied garrison surrenders November

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, November 21, 1943: Mediterranean Italy: Kesselring made German C-in-C. Rommel leaves his command. Occupied Territories Norway: British and Norwegian Commandos destroy smelting works near Arendal

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, November 20, 1943: Sea War Pacific – US MARINES LAND ON TARAWA AND BETIO (Gilbert Islands): 18,600 Americans engage 4,836 Japanese and Koreans until all

WW2 War Diary for Friday, November 19, 1943: Mediterranean Italy – BATTLE OF THE SANGRO (November 19-24): British establish small bridgeheads over the swollen river. Eastern Front Southern Sector: Germans

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, November 18, 1943: Air War Germany: BATTLE OF BERLIN. RAF launches 5-month-long series of massive night raids, designed to ‘wreck Berlin from end to end’

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, November 17, 1943: Pacific New Guinea: Australian troops with Matilda tanks assault Sattelberg.