Catholic priests Johannes Prassek, Eduard Müller and Hermann Lange – and the Evangelical-Lutheran pastor Karl Friedrich Stellbrink were executed by Nazi Germany for treason. Known as the Lübeck martyrs, they had not held their tongues on the Nazis, who were now becoming increasingly murderous towards internal dissent.
Soviet paratroopers dropped at Cherkasy, south of the Dniepr, and linked up with partisans, while the Red Army ferried tanks across the river.
We tend not to think much about Red Army paratroopers during the war, but in fact they made a significant number of drops.
The Red Army, supposedly a people's army, introduced two new military decorations. The Victory Order was for officers only. The Order of Glory for lower ranks.
Crash-landing of F6F-3, Number 30 of Fighting Squadron Two (VF-2), USS Enterprise, November 10, 1943. Lt. Walter L. Chewning Jr., the catapult officer of the USS Enterprise, is seen leaping up on the burning blame to rescue the pilot, Ensign Bryon M. Johnson. Johnson would receive hardly any injury.
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