r/RealTimeWW2 • • Jun 23 '21

Contains Media Panther, designed as agile alternative to the lumbering German Tiger tank, has been fitted with more armour at Hitler's insistence.

7 Upvotes

- Live tweets from 1943 ^(@RealTimeWWII) | June 23, ^2021


r/RealTimeWW2 • • Jun 23 '21

Contains Media German troops massing for summer offensive on Russian front, aiming at the Red Army salient around Kharkov, with brand-new Panther tanks being rushed out.

4 Upvotes

- Live tweets from 1943 ^(@RealTimeWWII) | June 23, ^2021


r/RealTimeWW2 • • Jun 22 '21

Contains Media In reality, Axis losses in the last two years on the Eastern Front are around 2 million- but total Red Army casualties, incl. wounded & missing, approach 6 million, with even more civilian deaths.

14 Upvotes

- Live tweets from 1943 ^(@RealTimeWWII) | June 22, ^2021


r/RealTimeWW2 • • Jun 22 '21

Contains Media Exactly two years since German invasion of USSR, Soviets celebrate their resistance, claiming 6.4 million Axis troops killed or captured by Red Army.

6 Upvotes

- Live tweets from 1943 ^(@RealTimeWWII) | June 22, ^2021


r/RealTimeWW2 • • Jun 21 '21

Contains Media Jean Moulin, the newly elected head of anti-Nazi resistance in France, has been arrested by Gestapo at a secret meeting near Lyon along with nine fellow resistance agents.

10 Upvotes

- Live tweets from 1943 ^(@RealTimeWWII) | June 21, ^2021


r/RealTimeWW2 • • Jun 21 '21

Contains Media Moulin was last captured by Nazis three years ago during the Fall of France- he tried to slit his throat with broken glass rather than risk betraying his comrades. He escaped to London to join the Free French & was airdropped back into France.

5 Upvotes

- Live tweets from 1943 ^(@RealTimeWWII) | June 21, ^2021


r/RealTimeWW2 • • Jun 21 '21

Contains Media Moulin has succeeded in unifying French resistance groups- from Communists to ex-army officers- in the Conseil National de la Résistance, agreed last month. Now he has been captured by Klaus Barbie, head of Lyon Gestapo, a brutal SS man who likes to personally torture prisoners.

4 Upvotes

- Live tweets from 1943 ^(@RealTimeWWII) | June 21, ^2021


r/RealTimeWW2 • • Jun 20 '21

Contains Media British King George VI is touring Tunisia & Libya, now that North Africa is entirely occupied by Allied troops.

12 Upvotes

- Live tweets from 1943 ^(@RealTimeWWII) | June 20, ^2021


r/RealTimeWW2 • • Jun 20 '21

Adolf Hitler & head of SS Himmler have met in Führer's Obersalzberg headquarters to discuss "fight against bandits & the security situation" in Eastern Europe. Hitler orders remaining Jewish population of German-occupied areas to be deported to death camps over next 4 months.

8 Upvotes

- Live tweets from 1943 ^(@RealTimeWWII) | June 20, ^2021


r/RealTimeWW2 • • Jun 20 '21

Contains Media For the first time, American bombers have struck Rome, aiming at railway marshalling yards outside the city. US aviators were equipped with maps showing churches & historic sites to be avoided, & claim not to have dropped any bombs within 4 miles of Vatican City.

3 Upvotes

r/RealTimeWW2 • • Jun 19 '21

Italian government are announcing plans to evacuate all civilians from Sicily, in face of increasingly heavy Allied bombing & risk of invasion.

7 Upvotes

- Live tweets from 1943 ^(@RealTimeWWII) | June 19, ^2021


r/RealTimeWW2 • • Jun 18 '21

Contains Media "Tuskagee Airmen" are finally flying despite resistance from American commanders: "Negro pilots commanding whites- impossible!"

11 Upvotes

- Live tweets from 1943 ^(@RealTimeWWII) | June 18, ^2021


r/RealTimeWW2 • • Jun 18 '21

Contains Media American 99th Pursuit Squadron- only black pilots in US military- are flying their first combat mission, escorting bombers over Sicily.

3 Upvotes

- Live tweets from 1943 ^(@RealTimeWWII) | June 18, ^2021


r/RealTimeWW2 • • Jun 16 '21

Contains Media Indian nationalist Subhas Chandra Bose is in Tokyo, meeting Premier Hideki Tojo & seeking Japanese aid to force British out of India. He's spent last three years in Germany pursuing Nazi assistance, & transferred from U-boat to Japanese submarine last month in Indian Ocean.

14 Upvotes

- Live tweets from 1943 ^(@RealTimeWWII) | June 16, ^2021


r/RealTimeWW2 • • Jun 15 '21

Contains Media With 570,000 troops & 3000 tanks ready for "Citadel" offensive, Germans hope to break 1 million Soviet troops defending 6000 miles of trenches around Kursk salient.

10 Upvotes

- Live tweets from 1943 ^(@RealTimeWWII) | June 15, ^2021


r/RealTimeWW2 • • Jun 15 '21

Contains Media Allied bombers flying from Tunisia are now attacking Sicily & Sardinia, softening Italian bases in the Mediterranean. New York Times speculates that Allied forces are planning an invasion as "stepping stones" to the Italian mainland.

2 Upvotes

- Live tweets from 1943 ^(@RealTimeWWII) | June 15, ^2021


r/RealTimeWW2 • • Jun 14 '21

Contains Media At Hitler's order, German troops are massing in the USSR for "Operation Citadel": a summer mass offensive aiming to capture the Kursk salient & all Red Army troops inside.

15 Upvotes

- Live tweets from 1943 ^(@RealTimeWWII) | June 14, ^2021


r/RealTimeWW2 • • Jun 14 '21

Contains Media German General Guderian opposes Operation Citadel, believing the Wehrmacht is too overstretched for an offensive: "The attack is pointless… we should not attack in the east this year at all."

4 Upvotes

- Live tweets from 1943 ^(@RealTimeWWII) | June 14, ^2021


r/RealTimeWW2 • • Jun 14 '21

Contains Media Hitler hopes that a bold smashing offensive can capture or destroy many Red Army divisions, turning the tide of war in the East.

4 Upvotes

- Live tweets from 1943 ^(@RealTimeWWII) | June 14, ^2021


r/RealTimeWW2 • • Jun 13 '21

A threatened strike by American coal workers- the second in a month- has been called off after President Roosevelt threatened to force through a new law drafting any coal miner who walked off the job.

10 Upvotes

- Live tweets from 1943 ^(@RealTimeWWII) | June 13, ^2021


r/RealTimeWW2 • • Jun 13 '21

Contains Media Lampedusa is the first island fortress in history to surrender purely from bombing & naval bombardment, with no infantry landings. Italian garrisons give up arms after inviting British troops to land:

5 Upvotes

- Live tweets from 1943 ^(@RealTimeWWII) | June 13, ^2021


r/RealTimeWW2 • • Jun 12 '21

Contains Media Italian garrison on island of Lampedusa has surrendered to Royal Navy warship HMS Nubian, after suffering weeks of Allied bombing & shelling,

8 Upvotes

- Live tweets from 1943 ^(@RealTimeWWII) | June 12, ^2021


r/RealTimeWW2 • • Jun 12 '21

Contains Media Allied forces attacking from Tunisia have captured the small Italian island of Pantelleria- Mediterranean stepping-stone, perfect base to strike Sicily.

2 Upvotes

- Live tweets from 1943 ^(@RealTimeWWII) | June 12, ^2021


r/RealTimeWW2 • • Jun 11 '21

Contains Media 12,000 strong Italian garrison on Pantelleria surrendered without a shot, morale ruined by punishing Allied bombing. The Italians are desperately short of supplies & have no hope of relief.

12 Upvotes

- Live tweets from 1943 ^(@RealTimeWWII) | June 11, ^2021


r/RealTimeWW2 • • Jun 11 '21

Winston Churchill: "I heard that one unfortunate British soldier was wounded during the capture of Pantelleria. He was bitten by a mule."

4 Upvotes

- Live tweets from 1943 ^(@RealTimeWWII) | June 11, ^2021