WW2 War Diary for Monday, November 1, 1943: Sea War Pacific – Operation Cherry Blossom: AMERICAN MARINES LAND ON BOUGAINVILLE, largest Solomons Island. Warships and carrier planes bombard Buka airfield. […]
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WW2 War Diary for Sunday, October 31, 1943: Sea War Merchant shipping losses in October 1943: 13 Allied ships with 61,085 tons in Atlantic, 16 Allied ships with 78,776 tons
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WW2 War Diary for Saturday, October 30, 1943: Eastern Front Southern sector: Russians now control several bridgeheads on right bank of Lower Dnieper, together with entire left bank, except for
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WW2 War Diary for Friday, October 29, 1943: Mediterranean Italy: Port of Mondragone captured by 5th US Army.
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WW2 War Diary for Thursday, October 28, 1943: Home Fronts USA: 530,000 coal miners on strike; Roosevelt commandeers mines, November 1; strike ends November 3. New Zealand: Butter rationed.
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WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, October 27, 1943: Sea War Pacific: NZ forces land in Treasury lsland (Solomons). Home Fronts Britain: Death of (Miss) Radclyffe Hall, notorious author of ‘Well
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WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, October 26, 1943: Home Fronts India: Wavell visits famine-stricken areas in Bengal; relief camps to be established.
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WW2 War Diary for Monday, October 25, 1943: Eastern Front Southern sector: Russians recapture Dnepropetrovsk Dam. Occupied Territories Burma: Burma-Siam Railway (‘Death Railway’) completed by Allied PoWs and native coolies.
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WW2 War Diary for Sunday, October 24, 1943: Sea War: North Sea: 32 German E-boats (2 lost) make unsuccessful attack on convoy off Cromer (night October 24-25).
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WW2 War Diary for Saturday, October 23, 1943: Air War Germany: 486 RAF bombers attacking Kassel and dropping 1,824t of bombs. Mediterranean Italy: British 8th Army attacks across river Trigno,
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WW2 War Diary for Friday, October 22, 1943: Sea War Mediterranean: 3 Allied destroyers mined in Aegean (October 22-24).
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WW2 War Diary for Thursday, October 21, 1943: Occupied Territories Philippines: Japan grants ‘independence’ to Philippines. Malaya: SC Bose forms provisional government of ‘Free India’ at Singapore. Air War Mediterranean:
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WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, October 20, 1943: Air War Germany: 285 RAF and RCAF Lancaster bombers raid Leipzig in severe weather (1,085t bombs dropped). Mosquitoe bombers attack Berlin. 17
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WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, October 19, 1943: Air War Mediterranean: B-25 Mitchell bombers and Beaufighters attack convoys north of Crete (October 19 and 20). German prison ship Sinfra sunk
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WW2 War Diary for Monday, October 18, 1943: Air War Germany: 349 RAF bombers attacking Hannover (night October 18-19) and dropping 1,697t of bombs. Home Fronts Germany: Hitler confers with
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