Diary May 1, 1944

05-1944, Diary WW2, War Diary, Year 1944 / 1 minute of reading

T-34 M44 (85-mm gun) on railway wagons — Since mid-May the preparations for the Russian summer offensive are underway. T-34-85 tanks on railway wagons to Byelorussia.

WW2 War Diary for Monday, May 1, 1944:

Eastern Front

Central Sector: Zhukov and Vasilevsky begin detailed planning for decisive summer offensive against the ‘Byelorussian Salient’, lying between Smolensk and Minsk. Germans are to be misled into expecting the blow to fall in North Ukraine, before a series of pincer movements trap their armies around Vitebsk, Mogilev, Bobruysk and Minsk.

Occupied Territorioes

Yugoslavia: Tito sends a military mission to London.

Home Fronts

USSR: Stalin declares in Order of the Day ‘The wounded German beast must be pursued and finished off in its lair.’ Saluting batteries in Moscow and 8 other cities fire 20 salvos.

Politics

Britain: Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference in London.

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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.