Air Operations, Bonin Islands6 30th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s attack Futamiko while escorting US Navy photo-reconnaissance aircraft over Iwo Jima and the Bonins. [ | ]Air Operations, CBIMore than 60 14th Air Force fighter-bombers attack shipping, troops, rail targets, and targets of opportunity in southern China, Burma, and Thailand. BURMA
Air Operations, East IndiesV Bomber Command A-20s and FEAF fighter-bombers attack airfields and targets of opportunity on Ceram and Halmahera. A 418th Night Fighter Squadron P-61 crew downs a twin-engine bomber near Miti, Halmahera at 0429 hours. [ | ]Air Operations, EuropeRAF BOMBER COMMANDDaylight Ops: Minor Ops:
Air Operations, New GuineaMore than 70 V Bomber Command A-20s mount pre-invasion attacks against Pegun Island. [ | ]Air Operations, Philippines
BurmaIn the British XXXIII Corps sector, the 5th Indian Div and 11th East African Div make contact with each other at Kalemyo, east of Tiddim and south of Kennedy Peak. [ | ]Eastern FrontThe Germans evacuate Skopje in southern Yugoslavia. The Bulgarian 1st Army is advancing in this sector. SOUTHERN SECTORArmy Group E is attacked by the 1st Bulgarian Army and is forced out of Skopje. This cuts the railway line between Salonika and the north, but fortunately for the Germans most of their forces have left this axis and are retreating along the coastal axis through Albania. [ | ]English Channel3 Liberty ships are torpedoed by U-978. [ | ]GreeceThe Greek armed forces are put under the British High Command. [ | ]PacificThe US Coast Guard Cutter Rockford (PF-48) and the minelayer Ardent (AM-340) sink the Japanese submarine I-38 in the eastern Pacific area. [ | ]Palau IslandsThe last elements of Japanese resistance on Bloody Ridge are wiped out. [ | ]PhilippinesAircraft from 3 squadrons of aircraft carriers commanded by Rear-Adm Frederick Sherman begin a series of attacks lasting 2 days against enemy shipping and installations in the area of Manila and the central strip of Luzon Island. This operation costs the Japanese the light cruiser Kiso and the destroyers Akebomo(?), Akishimo, Hatsuharu and Okinami and auxilliary submarine chaser No. 116. On Leyte the 21st Inf of the US 24th Div makes some small headway in the Breakneck Ridge area. [ | ]Western FrontThe 90th Div, XX Corps, 3rd Army, has now crossed the Moselle north of Thionville and built a bridge at Cattenom. On the southern flank of the corps, the 5th Div advances toward Metz from the north. Southeast of Metz, where forces of the US XII Corps are engaged, units of the 6th Arm Div, assisted by the 317th Regt of the 80th Div, advance towards Falquemont, while still further south elements of the 4th Arm Div, supported by the 35th Div, make for Morhange, and important road junction. In the 7th Army sector, the XV Corps opens its offensive northeastward toward Sarrebourg with 2 divisions, the 44th and the 79th, one on the left of the advance and the other on the right, with cover on the north flank by the 106th Cav Regt. Faced with the advance by the VI Corps, the Germans prepare to withdraw from St Dié. Churchill visits French troops in the Vosges. [ | ]Images from November 13, 1944
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