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29 October 1944
What happened on this day in the Second World War, from 1939 to 1945, with a source for every entry.
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Each day we list events from the Second World War that happened on that date, from 1939 to 1945. Every entry names its source and links to it, so you can read further. Entries are sourced and machine-screened before they go up, a subset is human-reviewed, and we add more over time.
8 sourced entries for this date.
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Entries
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Leyte
Since 77th Div will apparently not be needed on Leyte, Gen MacArthur transfers it from control of Gen Krueger to that of Adm Nimitz.
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The Soviet Red Army enters Hungary.
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The Dutch city of Breda is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division.
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Tromsø Municipality
1944 unsuccessful British air raid in World War II.
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China-Burma-India Theater
THOR mission records show at least 74 Allied sorties (20 recorded unit missions) in the China-Burma-India Theater on 1944-10-29, flown by USAAF 10th Air Force, USAAF 14th Air Force. Targets included BURMA, CHINA.
Source US Air Force THOR (opens external site)
THOR is a secondary compilation with known gaps, not a complete record.
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Pacific Theater
THOR mission records show at least 141 Allied sorties (29 recorded unit missions) in the Pacific Theater on 1944-10-29, flown by USAAF 5th Air Force, USAAF 7th Air Force, USAAF 13th Air Force, USAAF 11th Air Force.
Source US Air Force THOR (opens external site)
THOR is a secondary compilation with known gaps, not a complete record.
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India-Burma
On Salween front, Gen Wei Lihuang’s Chinese Expeditionary Force, closely supported by U.S. Fourteenth Air Force, renews offensive, attacking toward Lung-ling with Ch 200th Div in the lead. Japanese have been thinning out.
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