Diary November 2, 1944

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

First allied pic of Me 262 — First allied picture of Me 262: taken by the gun camera of a P-51 Mustang just before the German jet was shot down.

War Diary for Thursday, November 2, 1944:

Air War

Germany: Great air battle over Leuna synthetic oil plant at Merseburg: 8th AF claims 183 fighters (including 4 jets) for loss of 40 bombers and 28 fighters (including losses due to anti-aircraft guns). By night, RAF despatches 992 bombers to Dusseldorf and small forces to other targets (20 planes lost in all operations).

Russian Front

2nd Panzer Army consolidates its position along river Drina, west of Belgrade.

Western Front

LIBERATION OF BELGIUM completed, Germans surrender at Zeebrugge, Knocke and Heyst.

Home Front

USA: Roosevelt sends Donald M. Nelson, former chief of WPB (War Production Board), to reorganize Chinese war production.

About The Author

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.