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What happened on November 28 during World War II? This date brings together 3 events from 1943 and 1944, with period photographs and links to the full operations documented across WW2 Theatres.
Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin agreed that the landing in Normandy would be supported by a second landing in the south of France. Stalin pressed for it hardest, seeing it as the guarantee that the Western Allies would fight in France rather than in the Balkans. The operation was then called Anvil. It was postponed, cancelled and revived repeatedly through the first half of 1944 as landing craft were taken for Normandy and for Anzio.
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On 28 November the first ocean convoy passed through the cleared Scheldt and reached Antwerp. The arrival converted the port captured on 4 September into a functioning Allied supply base close to the front. Antwerp rapidly became one of the principal logistics hubs for the winter campaign. Its opening eased the dependence on the longer supply routes from the Channel and Normandy ports, although wider Allied transport and supply problems continued.
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The 121st Infantry of the 8th Division captured Hürtgen village after several days of fighting. The regiment took the road centre while German defenders withdrew toward the Brandenberg-Bergstein ridge. The capture opened another route east through the forest. Grosshau and the Brandenberg-Bergstein ridge still controlled observation and movement toward the Roer.
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