Diary February 6, 1944

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, February 6, 1944: Eastern Front Northern Sector: Russians clear Germans from east bank of river Narva. Air War Eastern Front: 200 Russian planes attack Helsinki. learn more
WW2 War Diary for Sunday, February 6, 1944: Eastern Front Northern Sector: Russians clear Germans from east bank of river Narva. Air War Eastern Front: 200 Russian planes attack Helsinki. learn more
World War One Diary for Thursday, February 6, 1919: Germany: National Assembly opens at Weimar. France: Allied-German Agreement on food supplies. Emir Feisal heard at Peace Conference. Britain: Trade allowed with West bank of Rhine, Alsace-Lorraine, Czechoslovakia and Occupied Austria.… learn more
WW2 War Diary for Saturday, February 5, 1944: Russian Front Southern Sector: Russian 3rd and 4th UFs drive Germans from Nikopol Salient; then cross river Dnieper to free Nikopol and its great manganese mines (February 5-8). learn more
World War One Diary for Wednesday, February 5, 1919: Germany – Aviation: First sustained daily air passenger service begun by Deutsche Luft-Reederei using converted military biplanes between Berlin and Weimar (120 miles in 2 hours 18 minutes). Russia – Peace… learn more
WW2 War Diary for Friday, February 4, 1944: Southeast Asia Burma: JAPANESE LAUNCH MAJOR OFFENSIVE IN THE ARAKAN (Operation Ha-Go). Mediterranean Italy: Americans heavily engaged at Cassino. learn more
World War One Diary for Tuesday, February 4, 1919: Britain: London waiters strike (until February 10) for 8-hour day and tipping reform fails. Canadian Prime Minister Sir R Borden opens London Exhibition of nearly 400 war memorial paintings. learn more
WW2 War Diary for Thursday, February 3, 1944: Mediterranean Italy: Germans counter-attack east and west of the Aprilia ‘model farm’ (the ‘Factory’) near Anzio bridgeheads. learn more
World War One Diary for Monday, February 3, 1919: France – Peace Process: Venizelos presents Greece’s Smyrna claims in Turkey (until February 4). League of Nations Committee first meets. Sugar ration increased 50%. Britain : Army demobilization 1,112,339 men so… learn more
WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, February 2, 1944: Sea War Pacific: Ships of TF 58 enter Majuro Atoll (soon to become a vital advanced base). learn more
World War One Diary for Sunday, February 2, 1919: Britain: Michael Collins helps Sinn Fein leader de Valera escape from Lincoln prison. The other Sinn Fein prisoners released March 6-10. learn more
WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, February 1, 1944: Sea War Pacific: AMERICANS LAND ON MARSHALL ISLANDS. 4th US Marines and 7th Infantry Division are landing on Majuro Atoll (January 30), Kwajalein Atoll (February 1 and 2) and Eniwetok Island (February… learn more
World War One Diary for Saturday, February 1, 1919: Baltic States: Estonians retake Verro and Walk in Livonia. Latvians retake Shavli. German General Goltz arrives at Libau. Russia: In February Reds form combined Lithuanian-Belorussian SSR ‘Litber’ (until August), wound up… learn more
WW2 War Diary for Monday, January 31, 1944: Air War Germany: 489 RAF bombers attacking Berlin and dropping 1,961t of bombs. Sea War Channel German E-boats attack Convoy CW.243 (2 ships sunk). Merchant shipping losses in January 1944: 18 Allied… learn more
World War One Diary for Friday, January 31, 1919: Baltic Provinces: Red Army occupies Windau (until February 1), 40 miles north of Libau. South Russia: General Wrangel of 1st Cavalry Division made C-in-C Caucasus Volunteer Army vs General Gittis (ex-Tsarist… learn more
WW2 War Diary for Sunday, January 30, 1944: Mediterranean Italy: 5th US Army makes small breach in Gustav Line. At Anzio, US Rangers advance to Cisterna and British 3rd Division to Railway Station, north of Aprilia. Air War Germany: US… learn more
World War One Diary for Thursday, January 30, 1919: France – Peace Process: – Supreme Council adopts mandate system, provisional arrangements for German colonies and occupied Anatolia. Weizmann tells Colonel Meinertzhagen ‘Zionism is constructive Bolshevism’. South Africa: War losses published.… learn more
WW2 War Diary for Saturday, January 29, 1944: Sea War Pacific: TF 58 attacks Marshall Islands (January 29-February 3) with 6,232 sorties (49 planes lost). Mediterranean: British cruiser Spartan sunk by glider bomb off Anzio. Air War Germany: 596 RAF… learn more
World War One Diary for Wednesday, January 29, 1919: Urals: Red First Army takes Uralsk, disorganizing Orenburg and Ural Cossacks. Siberia: General Knox cables regarding ‘Prinkipo Proposal’, ‘suddenly the whole of Russia is informed by wireless that her Allies regard… learn more
WW2 War Diary for Friday, January 28, 1944: Sea War Atlantic: Two ‘wolf-packs’ (totalling 20 U-boats) totally prevented from interfering with Convoys OS.66, KMS.40 and ON.221 by RAF Coastal Command. Air War Pacific: 22 Corsair fighters and 6 pilots lost… learn more
World War One Diary for Tuesday, January 28, 1919: France – Peace Process: French government presents Togo and Cameroons claims. learn more