Air Operations, Bismarcks

35 V Bomber Command B-25s and B-26s attack Borgen Bay. 16 3rd Light Bomb Group A-20s attack the Cape Gloucester area.

Air Operations, CBI

• In the final attack of the joint USAAF-RAF bombing offensive against strategic targets in Rangoon, 7th and 308th Heavy Bomb group B-24s attack the locomotive repair shops at Insein, but they are engaged by as many as 60 Japanese fighters. 6 B-24s and 1 P-51 are lost, and 6 B-24s are heavily damaged.
• 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s attack a bridge at Myitnge and 4 14th Air Force P-40s attack motor vehicles near Lashio.
• 459th Fighter Squadron P-38s and a 530th Fighter Squadron P-51 down 3 Japanese fighters over Rangoon between 1225 and 1235 hours.
• During the night, RAF Wellingtons attack targets in Rangoon.

• 19 11th Medium Bomb Squadron B-25s, 24 14th Air Force P-40s, and 10 P-51s attack the port area at Kowloon, 2 B-25s attack a port area at Hong Kong, and 16 P-40s attack boats in the Changte area.

• 8 14th Air Force P-40 fighter-bombers attack Bac Ninh and area.

Air Operations, Central Pacific

2 VF-30 F6Fs down a G4M 'Betty' bomber at sea at 1230 hours.

Air Operations, Europe

B-17s attack Solingen, east of Dusseldorf, for the second successive day.

Air Operations, Marshalls

4 VII Bomber Command B-24s based at Funafuti attack the Mille Atoll.

Air Operations, New Guinea

• More than 40 V Bomber Command B-24s attack Wewak, but 3 B-24s are lost to Japanese fighters.
• 348th Fighter Group P-47s down 4 Ki-61 'Tony' fighters over Wewak at 1245 hours, and an 8th Fighter Group P-47 downs an A6M Zero over Wewak at 1305 hours.

Air Operations, Solomons

• 18 42nd Medium Bomb Group B-25s and 8 XIII Fighter Command P-38s attack Malai.
• 6 B-25s attack Japanese Army ground positions in support of US Marine ground troops on Bougainville.
• XIII Fighter Command P-39s strafe Tonolei and targets on Bougainville.
• AirSols SBDs attack Kara, Ballale, and Japanese Army ground troops near Empress Augusta Bay.

Eastern Front

According to Moscow, partisans in Byelorussia have killed 282,000 German troops since the beginning of the war and have destroyed 812 guns and 5,738 trains.

Italy

There is growing air and ground activity in 5th Army's sector as diversionary attacks and other moves are made in preparation for the resumption of the offensive. At dusk the 139th Bde of the 46th Div begins a diversionary attack against Calabritto, but find it protected by obstacles and minefields. In the US VI Corps sector, too, the resistance put up by the retiring Germans is very effective.

Images from December 1, 1943

Mediterranean Sea, 1 December 1943: the Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6

Unidentified infantrymen of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade firing a mortar near the Sangro River, Italy, 1 December 1943. (Credit: Lieut. Frederick G. Whitcombe / Canada. Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada / PA-153182)

Canadian Mortar Fire

Tiger S33 and S13, "Kampfgruppe Lammerding", 8.Kompanie, SS-PzRgt.2/2. SS-PzD 'Das Reich', who played a less prominent role during the counterattack in the Zhytomyr sector, due to the massive casualties in Kursk. Kirovohrad, Ukraine. 1 December 1943.

Tigers in the Ukraine

Column of PzKpfW IV Ausf.G and Tigers of the 2. SS-Panzer-Division 'Das Reich' marching through a snowy forest, near the city of Kirovohrad, 250 km southeast of Kiev, to combat the forces of the 1st Ukrainian Front. Ukraine. 1 December 1943.

Tigers near Kirovohrad