240 mm howitzer firing into Germany from France, December 12, 1944.
The 3d Army captured the V-rocket factory at Wittring in eastern France.
Harold Alexander was promoted to Field Marshal and made Supreme Commander of Allied Force Headquarters in the Mediterranean.
The British commenced an offensive towards Akyab, Burma.
The RAF attacked Witten in a daylight raid. They were escorted by American P-51s. The city was the last industrial city in the Ruhr to have escaped bombing.
Greek communists asked for cease fire terms.
The U-416 collided with a German minesweeper and sank. The Z35 and Z36 destroyers were sunk by mines in the Gulf of Finland. Japanese destroyer sYūzuki and Uzuki were sunk by the U.S. Navy.
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Monday, December 11, 1944. The Great Snowstorm of 1944.
Labels: 1940s, 1944, Army, Dekemvriana (Δεκεμβριανά), Greek Civil War, Hungary, Kamikaze, Nazi Germany, Ontario, Quebec, U.S. Navy, Weather, World War Two
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