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Tag : Germany

1943-12-02Bari Air Raid

105 German Junkers Ju 88 bombers of Luftflotte 2, achieving complete surprise, bombed Allied shipping and personnel operating in support of the Allied Italian campaign, sinking 17 cargo and transport ships in Bari harbor.

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1943-11-19Janowska

Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.

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1943-11-16Vemork Heavy Water Bombed

American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway. 143 B-17 bombers drop 711 bombs, of which at least 600 missed the plant. The damage, however, was quite extensive.

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1943-11-15Porajmos

German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".

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1943-11-06Recapture of Kiev

Soviet Red Army recaptures Kiev. Before withdrawing, the Germans destroy most of the city's ancient buildings.

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1943-11-03Wilhelmshafen Harbor

500 aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshafen harbor in Germany.

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1943-11-031943-11-04Erntefest Massacre

The Trawniki and Poniatowa labor camps were surrounded by SS and police units. Jews were then taken out of the camps in groups and shot in nearby pits dug for this purpose. At of the two days 42,000 jews had been murdered.

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1943-11-01USS Borie & U-405

USS Borrie engages and sinks U-405. This engagement was unique in modern Naval terms. Borrie rammed the U-boat and engaged her crew with small arms fire. USS Borrie sunk the next day from battle damage.

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1943-10-22Kassel Bombed

RAF conducts an air raid on the city of 236,000 people, killing 10,000, rendering 150,000 homeless. Second firestorm raid in Germany.

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1943-08-17SchweinfurtRegensburg

Heavy damage inflicted on the Regensburg target, but at catastrophic loss of 60 bombers lost and many more damaged beyond repair. As a result, the 8th AF was unable to follow up immediately with a second attack that might have crippled German industry.

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