Saturday, November 18, 1944. Entering Metz.

US troops entered Metz.

Belgian resistance forces agreed to surrender their arms.

The I-41 was sunk off of Leyte.

Last edition:

Friday, November 17, 1944. Horrific losses at sea.

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Today in World War II History—November 18, 1939 & 1944

Today in World War II History—November 18, 1939 & 1944: 80 Years Ago: US Third Army enters Metz, France. Submarine USS Blackfin picks up captured Japanese cryptographic equipment from Filipino resistance on Mindoro.

Thursday, November 9, 1944. Sorge meets his end.

The Japanese hanged Soviet master spy Richard Sorge, one of the most effective, if perhaps ignored, spies of all time.

Sorge's passport in Japan, noting his cover as a journalist.

The 3d Army crossed the Moselle near Metz.

The 8th Army captured Forli.

The Japanese landed 2,000 reinforcements on Leyte.

Last edition:

Wednesday, November 8, 1944. Mystery of explosions resolved. Canadians prevail on the Scheldt.

Labels: 1940s, 1944, Army, Battle of Metz, Battle of the Scheldt, boats and ships, Canadian Army, Imperial Japanese Navy, Operation Infatuate, Rocketry, Tracked vehicles, U.S. Navy, Weapons, World War Two

Wednesday, November 8, 1944. Mystery of explosions resolved. Canadians prevail on the Scheldt.

Joseph Goebbels announced the V-2 rocket campaign for the first time. 

Churchill then did the same.

As V-2s came in so fast, they were largely silent, so this resolved a mystery concerning sudden large explosions.

The Canadian Army prevailed in the Battle of the Scheldt.

M4s that became stuck when firing from stationary positions due to sudden flood, France.  November 4, 1944.

The U.S. Army crossed the Seille and captured Nomony.

9th Army LVT in Europe.  I had no idea the LVT was used in the ETO.

High scoring Luftwaffe pilot Walter Nowotny was killed when his ME262 went down.  It's unclear if he was shot down or if the jet caught fire on its own.

The USS Growler was sunk by Japanese ships west of the Philippines.

Last edition:

Tuesday, November 7, 1944. Roosevelt wins a fourth term.

Labels: 1940s, 1944, 1944 Election, Battle of Leyte, Blog Mirror, boats and ships, Donald Trump, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Henry A. Wallace, Hungary, Ronald Reagan, SOE, U.S. Navy

Today in World War II History—November 8, 1939 & 1944

Today in World War II History—November 8, 1939 & 1944: 80 Years Ago: Canadians secure Walcheren and the Scheldt Estuary to protect port of Antwerp, Belgium. US Third Army begins offensive toward Metz, France.

Wednesday, September 27, 1944. The Battle of Metz commences.

S/Sgt. Claude W. Small, of Summit Street, Boothwyn, Pennsylvania reads a letter from home.  27 September, 1944.

The Red Army and Yugoslav partisans crossed into Albania.

The Battle of Metz began.

Only four B-24s out of thirty-five from the 445th BG survive the round trip from their base in the UK to their target at Kassel.

The Finnish army took Pudasjärvi in northern Finland from the Germans.

Sweden closed its ports to German shipping.

The Japanese troop transport and hospital ship Ural Maru was sunk in the South China Sea by the USS Flasher.  2,000 perished in the sinking.

The HMS Rockingham hit a mine in the North Sea and ultimately sank.

Australian sailors, September 27, 1944.

Controversial evangelist Aimee Elizabeth Semple McPherson died at age 53 from an accidental overdose of sleeping pills.

McPherson inspired a major plot, in a very fictionalized form, in the revived Perry Mason series.

Last edition:

Tuesday, September 26, 1944. Coastal artillery exchange.

Labels: 1940s, 1944, Artillery, Eindhoven, German Army, Greece, Greek Partisans, Netherlands, Operation Market Garden, Pas-de-Calais France, Red Army, Royal Air Force, Tallinn, World War Two