Diary August 4, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Friday, August 4, 1944: WESTERN FRONT British 2nd Army tanks reach Villers Bocage, for second time since ‘D-Day’. AIR WAR Gloster Meteor jet fighter in combat […]
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Year 1944
Diary August 3, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Thursday, August 3, 1944: WESTERN FRONT US tanks reach Rennes (Brittany). BURMA Chinese capture Myitkyina (Northeast Burma). SEA WAR: PACIFIC US carrier planes attack shipping in
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Diary August 2, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, August 2, 1944: WESTERN FRONT Americans reach Vire, south of Caumont. SEA WAR ‘Linse’ (‘Lentil’) ‘explosive boats’ sink destroyer ‘Quorn’ (night August 2-3) DIPLOMACY Turkey
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Diary August 1, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, August 1, 1944: OCCUPIED POLAND WARSAW RISING: Polish ‘Home Army‘ (Armija Krajawa) begins heroic 53-day struggle against German garrison. RUSSIAN FRONT 3rd Belorussian Front captures
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Diary July 31, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Monday, July 31, 1944: WESTERN FRONT US 1st Army breaks through at Avranches. RUSSIAN FRONT Red Army 1st Belorussian Front reaches outskirts of Warsaw. 3rd Belorussian
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Diary July 30, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Sunday, July 30, 1944: SEA WAR: PACIFIC Operation Globe Trotter: Americans land at Sansapor, to complete , occupation of New Guinea northern coastline.
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Diary July 29, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Saturday, July 29, 1944: Russian Front 3rd Belorussian Front crosses river Niemen. Air War Germany: 612 RAF bombers attacking Stuttgart and dropping 1,940t of bombs.
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Diary July 28, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Friday, July 28, 1944: Russian Front 1st Belorussian Front establishes 2 bridgeheads over river Vistula, south of Warsaw (July 28-August 2). Panzers and Luftwaffe carry out
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Diary July 27, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Thursday, July 27, 1944: Russian Front 2nd Byelorussian Front captures Rezekne rail junction; 1st Byelorussian Front captures Daugavpils (Latvia).
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Diary July 26, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, Juyl 26, 1944: Marianas Heavy artillery barrage heralds successful US attack on jungleÂ-covered Orote Peninsular on Guma. Marines smash JapanÂese counter-attack on northern beachhead. Home
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Diary July 25, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, July 25, 1944: Air War Europe 8th and 9th USAAF’s drop 4,000 t. bombs on German defenses in small area near St Lo. Germany: 614
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Diary July 24, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Monday, July 24, 1944: Italy Americans reach Pisa. Sea War Pacific Americans land on Tinian (Mariana Islands). Home Front Germany Wehrmacht ordered to use Nazi salute.
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Diary July 23, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Sunday, July 23, 1944: Russian Front 3rd Belorussian Front captures Pskov. 1st Belorussian Front captures Lublin and Maidanek extermination camp. Occupied France Resistance sets fire to
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Diary July 22, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Saturday, July 22, 1944: Occupied France SS destroy village of St Gingolph.
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Diary July 21, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Friday, July 21, 1944: Sea War Pacific AMERICANS LAND ON GUAM (Mariana Islands). Home Front Germany Himmler appointed commander of Home Army; Guderian, COGS. Von Stülpnagel,
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