Diary January 8, 1944

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

The first Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star prototype, the XP-80, in the time of the test flights in the Californian desert.

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, January 8, 1944:

Air War

USA:: First flight of Lockheed XP-80 Shooting Star jet fighter from Muroc Dry Lake. 5,000 ordered, but none operational before VJ-Day.
Britain: ACM Sir Sholto Douglas appointed C-in-C Coastal Command.

Eastern Front

Southern Sector: KIROVOGRAD CAPTURED BY RUSSIANS.

Occupied Territories

Italy: Ciano, Marshal de Bono and other anti-Mussolini ‘conspirators’ tried at Verona (executed January 11).

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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.

Air War

Eastern Front

Occupied Territories

About The Author

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