Diary January 31, 1944

01-1944, Diary WW2, War Diary, Year 1944 / 1 minute of reading

The ‘Battle Opera House’, the underground control center of a fighter division of the Reich Defence. Red dots for the enemy bombers and blue dots for own fighters are projected on the map, as they were detected one minute before by the radar stations.

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 ships with 43,009 tons in Atlantic, 13 Allied ships with 87,626 tons elsewhere.
95 Japanese ships with 355,368 tons in Pacific.
14 U-boats sunk in the Atlantic, Arctic or Baltic (worldwide total of 16 losses), 23 new U-boats operational, 471 U-boats of all types total in service.

Home Fronts

Australia: Commission established to investigate Japanese war crimes.

Occupied Territories

France:: Resistance blows up Ratier aircraft propellor works at Figeac.

About The Author

Kretaner

My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.