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October 24, 1943: Beheading of Leonard George Siffleet. Soldatensender Calais, also known as "Soldiers' Radio Calais", went on the air at 5:57 pm. Operating on the same frequency as Radio Deutschland, Germany's national radio station, Radio Calais would begin transmission whenever Radio Deutschland was off the air during bombing raids. [78]
The second Schweinfurt raid, [9] also called Black Thursday, was a World War II air battle that took place on 14 October 1943, over Nazi Germany between forces of the United States 8th Air Force and German Luftwaffe fighter arm (Jagdwaffe).
12 September – World War II: German paratroopers rescue Benito Mussolini from imprisonment, in Operation Eiche. 13 October – World War II: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany. 17 October – World War II: The last commerce raider, auxiliary cruiser Michel, was sunk off Japan by United States ...
Werner Georg Emil Lucas (27 December 1917 – 24 October 1943) was a German Luftwaffe military aviator during World War II, a fighter ace credited with 106 enemy aircraft shot down. The majority of his victories were claimed over the Eastern Front , with one claim over the Western Front .
In the late 1930s the German government built air raid shelters in all major cities, and one of them was the Air-raid shelter am Weinberg in Kassel. The shelter was designed for 7500 people. During the war Kassel was targeted several times by large air raids, destroying most of the city. The most severe bombing took place 22/23 October 1943, at ...
The Kassel World War II bombings were a set of Allied strategic bombing attacks which took place from February 1942 to March 1945. In a single deadliest raid on 22–23 October 1943, 150,000 inhabitants were bombed-out, [citation needed] at least 6,000 people died, [citation needed] the vast majority of the city center was destroyed, and the fire of the most severe air raid burned for seven days.
The Lingiades massacre, on 3 October 1943, was a Nazi German war crime committed by members of the 1st Mountain Division of the Wehrmacht Heer during the Axis occupation of Greece. The village of Lingiades ( Greek : Λιγκιάδες ), near Ioannina in northwestern Greece , was arbitrarily chosen as a target for reprisals by the Wehrmacht due ...
The operation was a success. It had won a valuable harbour and the assault force had repelled all counterattacks. Devon subsequently caused German forces to withdraw from the natural defence line on the Biferno and denied them use of an important lateral road from Naples, thereby forcing them to retreat further northwards.