Lex Anteinternet: Friday, June 2, 1944. Eisenhower moves, Operation Frantic commences, Romania and the Soviet Union talk.

Sunday, June 2, 2024

Friday, June 2, 1944. Eisenhower moves, Operation Frantic commences, Romania and the Soviet Union talk.

American medics from the First Special Services Force giving aid to a group of French soldiers... some of whom were killed and others wounded when three shells landed in Colleferro. Picture taken one minute after the shells landed. 2 June, 1944.

Hitler ordered Kesslering to abandon Rome, which Kesselring was already doing.

Some of the prisoners who were flushed out of the buildings on the eastern side of town. The Alied troops are from the First Special Services Force, which explains their baggy M1943 paratrooper field trousers. Artena and Colleferro area, Italy. 2 June, 1944.

3rd Division troops move into Valmontone, Italy, a strong point of German resistance for several days. 2 June, 1944.

Diplomats from the USSR and Romania met in secret in Stockholm to negotiate a Romanian surrender.

Sarah Sundin reports:

Today in World War II History—June 2, 1944 Countdown to D-day: Gen. Dwight Eisenhower moves his headquarters to a trailer at Southwick House in Hampshire.

The French Committee of National Liberation proclaimed itself to be the Provisional Government of France in a declaration from Algeria.

Operation Frantic, which saw U.S. aircraft fly from the United Kingdom and Italy on bombing missions, and then land in Ukraine, and then bomb again on their way back, commenced.

This would be done only seven times. By and large, the effort was not a success as the Soviets were hostile to it, U.S. personnel assigned to Soviet bases were wary of the Soviets (for good reason and because of their backgrounds as having come from refugee families), and the Soviets proved to be incapable of defending the airfields, which they had warned they might be.

B-17 landing in Ukraine, June 2, 1944.

An ammunition train derailed in Soham Cambridgeshire and exploded, killing two people.

Lost on this day in 1944 with all of its crew.

Last prior edition:

Thursday, June 1, 1944. Chanson d'automne.

Labels: 1940s, 1944, Army, boats and ships, British Army, French Resistance Movements, Italy, Lighter than air aircraft, Operation Hasty, Operation Overlord, Paratroopers, Rangers, Rome, U.S. Navy, Weapons, World War Two

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