Diary November 1, 1944

War Diary, 11-1944, Diary WW2, Year 1944 / 1 minute of reading

LCT lands troops on Walcheren — An British LCT and smaller landing crafts are landing troops at West Chapel on Walcheren to open entrance to river Scheldt and thus to the port of Antwerp.

War Diary for Wednesday, November 1, 1944:

Sea War

British infantry and Commandos land on Walcheren (Operation Infatuate): German garrison surrenders on November 8.

Air War

Pacific: First of 9,000 paper balloons, carrying bombs, released near Tokyo (small number reach North America, but only 6 people killed).
B-29 ‘Tokyo Rose’ of 3rd PR Squadron makes first reconnaissance over Tokyo since 1942.
Germany: 541 RAF bombers attacking Cologne and dropping 2,383 t of bombs.

Greece

British patrols reach Salonika.

Politics

International Civil Aviation Conference at Chicago.

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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.