WW2 War Diary for Friday, February 19, 1943:
Air War
Western Europe: Special equipped RAF Army Co-op. Cmnd. planes (Lysander) bomb electrical transformer stations in Loire Valley.
Germany: 181 RAF bombers attacking Wilhelmshaven and dropping 596t of bombs.
Eastern Front
Southern Sector: Russians capture Oboyan, on Kursk-Kharkov railway.