Table of Data Points

Tag : Combat

1944-10-241944-11-08Operation Infatuate

The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division is forced to fight it's away across the 40 metre wide Walcheren Causeway, a mile-long land bridge from South Beveland to the island. German troops hold the island until the 8th of November.

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1944-10-24Musashi Sunk

During Leyte Gulf, when it became apparent that the ship could not sustain further damage, her captain, Rear Admiral Inoguchi, attempted to run her aground on a nearby island. Musashi sank at 19:36, having been overwhelmed by 27bomb and 29 torpedoes hits.

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1944-10-24USS Tang Sinks

US Submarine sinks when she struck by her own malfunctioning torpedo.

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1944-10-231944-10-26Leyte Gulf

Largest battle in the history of naval warfare. After US troops invaded Leyte island ,as part of a strategy aimed at isolating Japan from the countries it had occupied in SE Asia, Japan mobilized nearly all it's vesels in an attempt to defeat the invasion.

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1944-10-21HMAS Australia Kamikazi

HMAS Australia is the target of the first kamikaze of the war. She is hit by a Japanese plane carrying a 200 kg (441 pound) bomb off Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.

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1944-10-20Belgrade Liberated

The Soviet Army and Yugoslav Partisans liberate Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia.

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1944-10-20MacArthur Returns

Allied forces under MacArthur's command, covered by aircraft from Halsey's carriers, landed at Leyte Island, fulfilling MacArthur's vow to return to the Philippines.

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1944-10-13Soviets capture Riga

Soviet troops capture the Latvian capital.

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1944-10-021944-10-21Battle of Aachen

Between 221 October the First Army suffered roughly 5,000 casualties in Aachen, while the Germans lost an estimated 5,000 soldiers as casualties and another 5,600 as prisoners of war. Aachen was the first German city to fall in the west.

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1944-10-011945-04-25Lapland War

The Finnish army while being forced to demobilize by the Soviet Union, fights to push the German army out of Finland and into Norway.

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