Air Operations, Bismarcks

• 22 42nd Medium Bomb Group B-25s, escorted by many AirSols fighters, attack Rabaul's Vunakanau airfield. 15 XIII Bomber Command B-24s, escorted by many AirSols fighters, attack the Tobera airfield at Rabaul.
• A 347th Fighter Group P-38 downs an A6M Zero over the Tobera airfield at Rabaul at 1110 hours. VMF-212 and VMF-222 F4Us, and a VMTB-143 TBF crew down 4 Zeros in the Rabaul area between 1100 and 1125 hours.
• 48 V Bomber Command B-24s, escorted by V Fighter Command P-38s, attack aircraft at the Kavieng airfield on New Ireland with 170 tons of bombs. 2 B-24s attack Garove Island.

Air Operations, CBI

• 1 490th Medium Bomb Squadron B-25 and 12 10th Air Force P-51s and A-36s attack a bivouac and supply dump at Pyindaw. 10 A-36s and P-51s attack supply dumps at Sawnghka. 8 P-51s attack a supply dump and road junction at Mogaung. 8 P-40s and P-51s attack a riverboat near Mandalay.

• 6 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s, escorted by 20 P-40s, attack Hong Kong's Kaitak airfield. 12 449th Fighter Squadron P-38s attack two bridges near Sheklung.
• 23rd and 3rd CACW Fighter group P-40s down 7 Japanese fighters over the Kaitak airfield between 1315 and 1320 hours.
• Japanese bombers and fighters attack the airfield at Namyung, which is temporarily put out of service.

Air Operations, East Indies

7 380th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s attack Dili (Timor) and the Kendari airfield on Celebes.

Air Operations, Europe

Soviet aircraft bomb Tirpitz at anchor in Altafiord. Only 4 of 15 aircraft get through to the target and little damage is caused.

• 11 Mosquitos are sent to Brunswick, 8 to Elberfeld, 4 to Aachen and 4 to Duisburg, there are 2 RCM sorties, there are 5 Serrate patrols, 52 aircraft lay mines off French Channel and Atlantic ports, 27 aircraft are on Resistance operations, and there are 6 OTU sorties.
• There are no losses.

Air Operations, Marshalls

Task Group 58.4 carrier aircraft pound targets in the Eniwetok Atoll. VII Fighter Command P-39 and P-40 fighter-bombers attack the airfield on Mille.

Air Operations, New Guinea

V Fighter Command P-40s and RAAF fighters attack Japanese Army ground forces in the Saidor area.

Eastern Front

The III Pzr Corps under Gen Nikolaus von Vormann renews its attacks to relieve the Korsun pocket in the morning. It manages to capture a vital bridge over the Gniloy Tikich. The Germans inside the pocket begin their attempt to break out late in the day.

(10th?)The 1st Ukrainian Front under Nikolai F. Vatutin, maintaining its pressure on von Manstein's Army Group South, takes Shepetovka.

The III Panzer Corps renews its relief attack toward Group Stemmerman, having been reinforced by the arrival of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler. Bushanka falls after a costly battle while other units of the corps cross the Gniloy Tikich, a small river running across the line of the German attack. However, the 2nd Tank Army is deploying to counter the German threat.

Italy

Pres Roosevelt describes the situation of the Anzio beachhead as 'very tense'. The fighting at Anzio continues. 'The Factory' finally falls to the Germans after changing hands 3 times in the last 2 days.

A new attempt by units of the US II Corps to reach the Via Casilina is still unsuccessful. Around Cassino the 168th Regt of the US 34th Div makes a final, unsuccessful attempt to move forward the last few hundred yards to the Cassino monastery from the north.

Images from February 11, 1944

American Anti-Tank Crew Loading Weapon in Italy, 11 February 1944

US and British Trucks on Fire in Nettuno, Italy, 11 February 1944

K-11 landing at South Weymouth on 11 Feb 1944. K-11 was the 1st K-ship permanently assigned to ZP-11 on 17 Sep 1942.

K-11 Landing at South Weymouth

Members of a Gun Section Man Anti-Aircraft Guns Like This 40mm Bofors

11 February 1944, began de-blockade impact on Lysenko 6 tanks and 4 infantry divisions to break the encirclement of the group of Stemmerman in Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi the boiler.

Attempt to Breakout of Encirclement

New Guinea, 11 February 1944 - An Australian machine gun emplacement perched on a ridge in the Shaggy Ridge area of the Finisterre Ranges. This position was captured from the Japanese after extremely hard fighting. In their operations valuable aid was given by the RAAF which constantly pounded enemy positions. Note the cross marking a grave on the steep slope.

An Australian Machine Gun Emplacement

New Guinea, 11 February 1944 - Two Army signallers communicating with their Headquarters from an advanced post in the Finisterre Ranges. Extremely heavy fighting occurred in the Shaggy Ridge area where the Japanese were strongly entrenched in what appeared to be unassailable positions. The Signallers performed a wonderful job in maintaining communications between the units in difficult country.

Army Signallers Communicating with Headquarterst