Diary March 3, 1943

03-1943, Diary WW2, War Diary, Year 1943 / 1 minute of reading

The hard to defend front angle around Rzhev and Vyazma is evacuated by the Wehrmacht with Operation ‘Buffalo’. This Panzer III is moving with the help of sprinkle in a new defense line near Smolensk.

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, March 3, 1943:

Eastern Front

Central Sector: Rzhev – German stronghold west of Moscow – stormed by Russian forces. Russians now control long stretches of Moscow-Riga railway.

Air War

Scandinavia: Mosquito bombers attack Knaben molybdenum mines, Norway (vital to German steel industry).
Germany: RAF night raid on Hamburg, 344 bombers dropping 913t of bombs.
Britain: 117 German night raiders (6 lost) despatched to London: only 126 bombs on target. Anti-aircraft rockets supplement regular barrage but cause panic at Bethnal Green tube station, where 400 people pile up on the steps (173 suffocate, 62 injured).

Home Fronts

Britain: Death of Captain FitzRoy, Speaker of the House of Commons; age 73.

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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.

Eastern Front

Air War

Home Fronts

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