28 Oct 1944
  • German forces evacuated Albania. ww2dbase [TH]
  • German forces in Netherlands started withdrawing to Walcheren in the face of Canadian pressure. ww2dbase [TH]
  • German 4.Armee stubbornly resisted around Goldap, East Prussia, Germany, halting the Soviet advance. ww2dbase [TH]
  • The Finnmark region of Norway was ordered by the Germans to be evacuated and destroyed. Nearly 50,000 people were forced to flee and over 10,000 homes are destroyed. ww2dbase [TH]
  • One day after a mission over Rabaul, New Britain in which unmanned TDR drones damaged some buildings, the US Navy canceled the TDR project. ww2dbase [TDR | CPC]
Brunei
  • Destroyer Yukikaze arrived at Brunei. ww2dbase [Yukikaze | CPC]
Caroline Islands
  • Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Steamer Bay arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Steamer Bay | Ulithi | DS]
China Czechoslovakia
  • General Rudolf Viest sent a message to the Czechoslovakian government-in-exile in Britain that the organized resistance had ended. ww2dbase [Slovak National Uprising | CPC]
Hawaii Hungary Italy Japan Pacific Ocean
  • USS Wasp departed waters off Philippine Islands for Ulithi, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Wasp (Essex-class) | CPC]
  • Destroyer USS Helm, assisted by destroyer USS Gridley and TBF Avenger aircraft from carrier USS Belleau Wood, sinks either Japanese submarine I-46 or I-54, 100 miles east of Samar, Philippines. [Both I-46 and I-54 were lost the same day in the same area so there is some uncertainty, but I-46 is more likely.] ww2dbase [Helm | Gridley | Philippines Campaign, Phase 1, the Leyte Campaign | Belleau Wood | DS]
  • The 50,000th carrier landing for USS Ranger occurred during carrier training off the California coast. ww2dbase [Ranger | DS]
Philippines Poland Russia
  • Allied convoy JW-61 arrived at the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Murmansk | CPC]
United Kingdom
  • HMS King George V departed Scapa Flow, Scotland, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Scapa Flow | King George V | Scapa Flow, Scotland | CPC]
  • Deptford, one of the most heavily hit London boroughs by V-1 flying bombs was hit again; the bomb crashed into Milton Court Road, killing one and injuring others. Flight Lieutenant Ernie Williams flying a Tempest V fighter (EJ590/SD-L) shot down his tenth and final V-1 flying bomb. ww2dbase [London, England | HM]
  • Roddie Edmonds and the 422nd Infantry Regiment, 106th Infantry Division arrived from the United States at Cotswolds in the English Midlands, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Roddie Edmonds | Witney, England | DS]
Photo(s) dated 28 Oct 1944
A Canadian gun-tractor skidded off the road on the flooded island of Beveland, the Netherlands, 28 Oct 1944

28 Oct 1944 Interactive Map




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