Thursday, February 8, 2024

Tuesday, February 8, 1944. Watery graves.

M3 Sherman stuck at the Rapido.

The Petrella, in German service, was sunk off Crete with 2,670 Italian POWs losing their life in the sinking.

The Japanese troop ship Lima Maru went down off of Gotō Islands when sunk by the USS Snook, with 2,765 lives lost.

The Brazzaville Conference concluded.

The Red Army captured the Ukrainian manganese production center of Nikopol.

The British held out at "the Factory" at Anzio under ongoing German efforts to displace them.

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