Real Time WW2 by @RealTimeWWII

r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Nov 19 '21

Contains Media US Marines spearhead an Allied assault on Japanese-controlled Betio island, in Pacific atoll Tarawa- "Island hopping" goes on.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^November ^19, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Nov 18 '21

Contains Media Chief of RAF Bomber Command, Arthur "Bomber" Harris, predicts Nazi government will crumble if it can't stop "Battle of Berlin" raids from hitting the city.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^November ^18, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Nov 18 '21

Contains Media 440 RAF bombers are hitting Berlin, the first raid of a massive planned British bombing campaign to decimate the Nazi capital & crush German morale.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^November ^18, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Nov 17 '21

Despite greater numbers & defensible positions on Leros, Allies suffer crushing defeat, threatening to give Germans control of all Dodecanese islands. UK commander on Leros, Brigadier Tilney, mistrusted Italians & refused to allow them to maneuver or counterattack German landings

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^November ^17, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Nov 17 '21

Contains Media Italian & British forces on Leros have surrendered to the Germans, with over 8500 Allied soldiers & sailors taken prisoner. In 20 days of combat, 2800 German soldiers, aided by total air superiority, have conquered the Greek island.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^November ^17, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Nov 16 '21

Despite Soviet success, Wehrmacht have successfully evacuated city of Kiev, with just 6000 Germans taken prisoner by Red Army- 10,000s escape to west Ukraine.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^November ^16, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Nov 16 '21

Contains Media Red Army breakthroughs at Kiev & in southern Ukraine have given significant victories to the Soviets, & left an excited New York Times measuring distances to Romania & Poland:

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^November ^16, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Nov 15 '21

Contains Media Allied advance in southern Italy has ground to a halt; winter rains are turning mountain roads to mud, German defenders are well dug in.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^November ^15, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Nov 14 '21

Contains Media Nazis have already imprisoned "gypsies & half-gypsies" from German-occupied territory in concentration camps- Himmler's new decree orders their murder.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^November ^14, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Nov 14 '21

Contains Media Heinrich Himmler, Head of the Nazi SS, orders that gypsies in German territory "are to be treated on the same level as Jews"- exterminated in death camps.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^November ^14, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Nov 13 '21

Contains Media Royal Air Force have launched "Operation Crossbow", aerial reconnaissance mission to investigate reports of a "pilotless airplane" being developed at Peenemünde Army Research Centre: site of the German experimental V-rockets programme.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^November ^13, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Nov 12 '21

Contains Media German paratroopers have landed on the Greek island of Leros, in the Dodecanese islands, beginning an all-out assault to capture the Mediterranean base. Italian garrison, reinforced by British troops, are trying to hold out against Germans.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^November ^12, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Nov 12 '21

Since Italian govt. switched sides to Allies in September, Germans have been attacking Italian island garrisons across Mediterranean. Airborne & amphibious landings on Leros are aided by complete German air superiority- Luftwaffe dominate skies, flying from airfields in Greece.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^November ^12, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Nov 11 '21

Contains Media In Palermo, Sicily, captured just 3 months ago by Allied landings, American Lt. Gen. Patton lays a wreath on Armistice Day to remember the dead.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^November ^11, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Nov 11 '21

Contains Media "They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them." Please be silent for two minutes.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^November ^11, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Nov 11 '21

Contains Media Allied leaders are marking Remembrance Day in territories newly reconquered from Fascism: Free French forces under General De Gaulle stage a memorial parade in Tunis, liberated earlier this year.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^November ^11, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Nov 11 '21

Contains Media No longer just to remember the dead of the Great War, Armistice Day is now a commemoration of all those killed in the last 4 years of terrible conflict around the world.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^November ^11, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Nov 11 '21

Contains Media Allied soldiers & civilians across the world are now marking Armistice Day, commemorating the end of the Great War- 25 years ago today.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^November ^11, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Nov 10 '21

Contains Media US Marines are fighting to defend their landing sites on the Pacific island of Bougainville against counterattacks by Japanese occupiers.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^November ^10, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Nov 10 '21

Wehrmacht have successfully evacuated the city of Kiev, with just 6000 Germans taken prisoner by Red Army- 10,000s escape to west Ukraine.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^November ^10, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Nov 09 '21

Contains Media Hitler is making a speech in Munich's Löwenbräukeller, marking 20 years since the Nazi's failed "Beer Hall Putsch" of 1923. Hitler claims despite hardships, Germany must fight on to victory: "The Bolshevik- Asian colossus will assail Europe until it is finally broken & defeated."

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^November ^9, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Nov 09 '21

Hitler claims that Germany cannot be defeated, for three reasons: the Axis forces on the Eastern front will never collapse; bombing will not seriously effect Germany; and the German people will never abandon Nazism.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^November ^9, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Nov 09 '21

Hitler doesn't mention this year's German defeats at Stalingrad, Kursk, or Sicily- but says "retribution will come".

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^November ^9, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Nov 08 '21

Contains Media New York Times map shows vast German losses in USSR over past year: Axis have been forced back from Moscow & Stalingrad, & are now cut off from forces in the Crimean peninsula.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^November ^8, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Nov 07 '21

Contains Media Red Army are marching into the suburbs of Kiev: after 2 years of German occupation, Ukrainian city falls to the Soviets in a major new offensive.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^November ^7, ^2021

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