A patrol from the Wiltshire Regt., British X Corps, tries to draw fire from a German MG nest. 13 January, 1944. The soldier in front is carrying an Italian Model 38 submachine gun, the one in the rear a Thompson submachine gun. This is the second photo I've seen of a British soldier carrying a captured Model 38.
Today in World War II History—January 13, 1944: Germans make large-scale arrests of Danish resistance members. Chinese gain control of Tarung River line, driving back the Japanese in the Hukawng Valley .
Sarah Sundin's blog.
The Red Army took Korets. Part of pre-war Poland, it had been a small Jewish city. It is now in Ukraine.
The director of the United States Typhus Commission warned that Naples and southern Italy were seriously threatened by the disease.
The U-231 was sunk by a Vickers Wellington off of the Azores.
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