The Battle of the Ruhr, an Allied air campaign, well let's make this clear, a Western Allied air campaign, against the industrial heart of Germany commenced with a large raid by the RAF on the Krupp munitions factory at Essen.
The campaign would go on into July.
The final German holdout surrendered at Stalingrad. On the same day, the NKVD shot five German officers it found who were hiding in the city.
The British Gloster Meteor, a jet engined fighter, made its first flight.
The fighter became operational in July 1944 and was the only Allied jet to engage in combat operations during the war. It was first deployed against V1 flying bombs, an early drone, which made sense given that the V1 was a jet engined aircraft, but late in the war it was deployed on the continent. The RAF largely prevented it from being flown over Germany out of fear that one would be captured and then analyzed by the Germans, or the Soviets.
Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man was released by MGM
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