Diary July 25, 1944

07-1944, Diary WW2, War Diary, Year 1944 / 1 minute of reading

US armoured division in Normandy — US armored division preparing for the break-through battle.

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, July 25, 1944:

Air War Europe
8th and 9th USAAF’s drop 4,000 t. bombs on German defenses in small area near St Lo.
Germany: 614 RAF bombers attacking Stuttgart and dropping 1,957t of bombs.

Western Front
Operation Cobra: 7th Corps of US 1st Army attacks across Periers-St Lo road and advances up to 3 km. Germans are stunned by preliminary bombing.
Lt.-General McNair, commander of US 1st Army Group, accidentally killed by American bomb; aged 61. General Eisenhower visits Normandy. British-Canadian diversionary attack near Caen; 3 km advance despite strong resistance.

Sea War
British Eastern Fleet attacks shipping and airfields at Sabang (Sumatra); Dutch cruiser Tromp and 3 destroyers enter harbor and engage Japanese batteries at point-blank range (Operation Crimson).

Home Front Germany
Goebbels appointed ‘Reich Plenipotentiary for Total War Effort’.

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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.

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