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Secret Annex
Anne is running out of things to write about.
She now describes a "typical" day from mid-afternoon through the evening meal: Mr. van Daan getting served first, Mrs. van Daan giving everyone advice, Peter being quiet, Mr. Dussel hogging all of the food. -
Secret Annex
The Westertoren clock’s bells have been taken away. They’ll be melted down for some purpose in the war. No one knows what time of day it is anymore.
Anne gets new shoes (high heels), which everyone admires.
Anne does a bunch of clumsy things and ends up with a hurt finger, hurt toe, and bump on her head. -
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1943
Wednesday
August 11th
The evacuation of Axis forces from Sicily begins. The US 7th Army undertakes another amphibious jump to head off the German retreat. -
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1943
Sunday
August 15th
The Aleutian Islands Campaign comes to a close. The Japanese invasion is ultimately repelled. One last amphibious assault by the 7th Army is conducted. The Germans now in full retreat to the northern tip of Sicily. -
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August 15
A 34,300 men Allied invasion force lands on Kiska, the last Japanese-occupied island in Alaska's Aleutians, only to discover it was abandoned weeks earlier. -
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1943
Tuesday
August 17th
At approximately 6:00PM, elements of the 1st Bomber Group begin landing back at their UK bases. Some 36 aircrafts are missing. Some 250 German fighters, already alerted to the bomber group presence, are launched to repel subsequent air attacks. Sometime between 11:46AM and 12:09PM, the 4th Bomber Group makes their bombing run on targets at Regensburg. -
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August 17-18
Nearly 600 British Royal Air Force (RAF) bombers target the Nazis' rocket factories in Peenemünde on the German island of Usedom.
The Americans score a major victory over the Japanese on New Guinea when they ambush the airfield at Wewak and destroy an entire bombing formation of 150 planes. -
Secret Annex
Anne describes the early morning, before breakfast, which seems to be the only time the Franks have a bit of real family time.
At 8:30am they have to stop using water, flushing the toilet, and making noise because the office workers start showing up.
The Franks settle in to reading, knitting, and having quiet family time. -
Secret Annex
Anne describes a "typical" day in the Secret Annex up to mid-afternoon: once it’s lunch time in the office below, the Secret Annex can relax a bit, listen to the radio, distribute food, etc.
