DATE: Tuesday, June 22, 1943
WEATHER: 24ºC/75.2ºF
It is sunny though cloudy, and it looks like it could rain later in the afternoon.
EVENTS: For the first time, today the US Army Air Forces attacked the German Ruhr region in broad daylight, temporarily decommissioning a critical rubber factory. In the meantime the Allies keep successfully shuttle bombing Italy.
The morale of the Allies is generally slightly up today wherever they are, because though slow, the news traveled anyway. Of course there's no such thing as a reason to celebrate in this war, seeing as the Jewish Ghettos in Russia have been raided and the remaining Jews ordered into Death Camps yesterday.
In France, the work of the Allies is more along the lines of retrieving information today, with Ally sympathizers in the French Resistance passing along as much information as they can successfully smuggle out through secret, and perilous, channels. This day marks the third anniversary of Germany's official occupation of France, an anniversary that usually signals the flare of rebellion and bloodshed.
The work of the Basterds, which we know is
never done, continues quite well. The Nazis can practically feel the shade of them breathing down their necks and it makes their hearts speed like runaway trains.