Air Operations, Carolines22 11th and 30th Heavy Bomb group B-24s attack a fuel dump and the airfield in the Woleai Atoll. [ | ]Air Operations, CBIIn their ongoing all-out effort to supply forward areas in the Burma and China regions, 10th Air Force transport aircraft complete more than 300 sorties to forward areas, a high so far for a month in which 200-plus sorties per day are commonplace. BURMA
Air Operations, EuropeRAF BOMBER COMMANDDaylight Ops: Minor Ops:
Air Operations, New GuineaFEAF B-25s conduct pre-invasion attacks against Pegun Island. [ | ]Air Operations, Philippines
Britain, Home FrontACM Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, Allied C-in-C Southeast Asia (designate), is presumed killed in an air crash. Wreckage of his plane is discovered in the French Alps on June 4, 1945. [ | ]BurmaThe Chinese 22nd Div occupies Man-tha, blocks the road to Bhamo and advances toward Si-u. 2 regiments of the Chinese 38th Div converge on Bhamo; the one meets stiff resistance from the Japanese in the Momauk area, about 7 miles from Bhamo, the other crosses the Taping River and advances east toward Bhamo. [ | ]Eastern FrontSOUTHERN SECTORThe 2nd Ukrainian Front is reinforces prior to the resumption of its attack upon Budapest. The 6th Guards Tank Army is ordered to operate in conjunction with the 7th Guards Army to encircle Budapest from the north. The 46th Army makes another effort to cross the Danube south of Budapest but is again repulsed. [ | ]NorwayThe Norwegian government in exile announces that Norwegian troops under the command of Col Arne Dahl have landed in Norway. They will operate against the Germans on the Arctic front, in conjunction with Russian troops of the Karelia Front. Since October 29, the German 20th Mountain Army has been dug in on a line west of Kirkenes and west of Lake Inari. [ | ]Pacific
Palau IslandsTroops of the 81st Inf Div re-occupy Ngeregong. They meet no Japanese resistance which has been crushed by air and naval actions. [ | ]PhilippinesOn Leyte the US 32nd Div, previously under orders to occupy the southern part of Samar Island, next to Leyte, is now sent to relieve the 24th Div, exhausted by the hard fighting on Breakneck Ridge, still not wholly in American hands. [ | ]Western FrontIn the British 2nd Army sector, the XII Corps begins attacks to eliminate the German holdings west of the Maas around Nederweert between Venlo and Roermond. On the right of the Allied line, where the US 3rd Army is operating, units of the 90th Div, XX Corps, enter Oudrenne and Distroff, east of Thionville. East of the Moselle, in the same area, units of the 95th Div reach Haute-Yutz and open the assault on Fort d'Illange. In the XII Corps sector, the units of the 4th Arm Div and 35th Div, advancing on Morhange, capture Destry and Baronville. On the south of the Allied front the I Corps of the French 1st Army begins the offensive, name Operation INDEPENDENCE, toward Belfort, attacking with the 2nd Moroccan Div supported on the left by the 5th Arm Div and on the right by the 9th Colonial Div. [ | ]YugoslaviaBulgarian and Yugoslav troops occupy Skopje, evacuated by the Germans the previous day. The town was th main German strongpoint in Yugoslav Macedonia during the retreat from Greece. [ | ]Images from November 14, 1944
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