Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Sunday, December 5, 1943. Operation Crossbow commences.

Operation Crossbow, the airborne offensive against V-1 rocket sites, commenced.  It would go on until the end of the war.

Italian Jews interned for the first time at Fossoli di Carpi.

By Fondazionefossoli - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4089375

The facility had originally been a POW camp.  It would only be a staging area for the deportation of Italian Jews to the German Holocaust machine, not a permanent concentration camp to house them.

The Battle of Sio commenced on New Guinea.


Calcutta was bombed during the day by the Japanese for the first time.

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