Air Operations, Bismarcks - V Bomber Command A-20s and V Fighter Command P-40s attack Gasmata. AirSols light bombers attack targets in the Rabaul area.
- During the late evening, 19 XIII Bomber Command B-24s attack the Lakunai airfield at Rabaul in the light of flares dropped by 3 other B-24s.
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Air Operations, CBI
CHINA
- 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s attack numerous vessels while conducting anti-shipping sweeps off the China coast.
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Air Operations, Europe
RAF BOMBER COMMAND
Evening Ops:
- 76 aircraft including 56 Stirlings, 12 Lancasters and 8 Mosquitos, attack flying bomb sites in the Pas de Calais and near Cherbourg. There are no losses.
- 14 Mosquitos are sent to Aachen and there are 18 OTU sorties. 1 OTU Wellington is lost.
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Air Operations, Marshalls 8 41st Medium Bomb Group B-25s attack Taroa Island in the Maloelap Atoll. 24 531st Fighter-Bomber Squadron A-24s and 12 VII Fighter Command P-39s attack artillery batteries in the Mille Atoll. At dusk, 18 VII Bomber Command B-24s attack the Roi airfield on Kwajalein and antiaircraft batteries in the Kwajalein Atoll.
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Air Operations, New Guinea - More than 50 V Bomber Command B-24s attack the Hansa Bay region. 37 B-25s attack Alexishafen and Madang. V Fighter Command P-39s strafe barges on the Rai Coast.
- 64 38th and 345th Medium Bomb Group B-25s attack the Lorengau airfield on Manus and the Momote airfield on Los Negros in the Admiralty Islands. 2 B-25s are lost and 1 damaged B-25 ditches.
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Air Operations, Pacific (24th?)An Allied raid by 200 planes launched from carrier groups on Rabaul results in heavy Japanese losses, including the destruction of 83 planes. Japan is suffering unsustainable aviation losses in the Pacific, both of aircraft and pilots, and the US is coming to rely more and more on achieving air supremacy in the theater.
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Battle of the Atlantic 7 U-boats attack convoy JW-56A near Bear Island sinking 3 ships.
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Eastern Front The Soviet attacks around Korsun are driven forward ruthlessly. The south wing of the drive with the 4th Guards Army and the 5th Guards Tank Army make good progress. In the north, 6th Tank Army, led by an armor expert, Gen Kravchenko, does scarcely less well. Late in the day the Soviets begin an all-out assault in the Leningrad sector against Krasnogvardeisk, a railway junction. The town is carried early next morning.
The 1st and 2nd Ukraine Fronts continue their offensive west of Cherkassy and Kirovograd against the opposition of von Manstein's Army Group South. Over the next few days 10 German divisions will be encircled in the 'Korsun Pocket'. Further north the 3rd and 4th Ukraine Fronts under Rodion Malinovsky and Fedor Tolbukhin, keep up the pressure on von Kleist's Army Group A.
SOUTHERN SECTOR
The 2nd Ukrainian Front commits its 5th Guards Tank Army to the Cherkassy battle, advancing quickly toward Shpola and into the rear of the XLII and XI Corps.
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Italy The fruitless attacks on the 'Gustav' Line continue, especially by the US II Corps, 34th Div. They still cannot establish a bridgehead across the Rapido. The French Corps to the right makes some gains on Colle Bevedere. At Anzio the Allied forces attempt to extend their perimeter inland but only make a little progress.
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New Guinea The Australians complete the capture of Shaggy Ridge, overlooking the Ramu valley.
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Occupied Norway Edvard Munch, a Norwegian expressionist artist, dies at age 80.
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Images from January 25, 1944
Sherman tanks of 46th Royal Tank Regiment fires in support of the Loyal Regiment at Anzio, 25 January 1944.
Sherman Tanks near Anzio
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British soldier inspects a German Heinkel He 111 bomber shot down during a night raid on the Anzio bridgehead, 25 January 1944.
Inspecting an He-111
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Men of the Middlesex Regiment dig in at Anzio, with Private H Carpocciama in the foreground.
Digging In at Anzio
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German POWs in Italy, 25 January 1944
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US Troops Board LCVP in Italy, 25 January 1944
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US Troops Land on Beach in Italy, 25 January 1944
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A Sherman Tank of 46th Royal Tank Regiment Supporting Irish Guardsmen north of Anzio, 25 January 1944
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Military Policeman Directing Traffic in Italy, 25 January 1944
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A German Messerschmitt Bf 109 Fighter Shot Down in the Anzio bridgehead, 25 January 1944
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Sherman Tanks Pass a Knocked-out German SdKfz 222 Armored Car, 25 January 1944
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US Troops and Landing Ships on Beach in Italy, 25 January 1944
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Lt-Gen Mark Clark Talks to Allied Troops in Italy, 25 January 1944
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