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• Tirpitz completed exercises at sea. ww2dbase [Tirpitz | CPC]
• Manuel Quezon passed away. ww2dbase [Manuel Quezon | CPC]
• Soviet forces captured Lithuania, cutting all roads between Germany and the Baltic States. ww2dbase [Operation Bagration | TH]
• President Risto Ryti of Finland resigned; he was to be replaced by Marshal Carl Mannerheim. ww2dbase [Risto Ryti | TH]
• US 83rd Infantry Division became part of the XV Corps of the Third Army of the US 12th Army Group. ww2dbase [CPC]
• The US 12th Army Group came into existence under the command of Lieutenant General Omar Bradley. ww2dbase [Omar Bradley | AC]
• Captain Taro Taguchi was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Navy 3rd Air Fleet. ww2dbase [CPC]
• George Bush was promoted to the rank of lieutenant (jg). ww2dbase [George Bush | CPC]
• USS Puffer attacked a Japanese convoy in the Dutch East Indies, firing 8 torpedoes and claiming 2 hits which sank a ship. ww2dbase [Puffer | CPC]
• The Indian 111th Infantry Brigade, a Chindit formation, was allowed to return to front line service in Burma after health conditions improved. ww2dbase [Operation Thursday | CPC]
• USS Parche set sail for Saipan, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Parche | CPC]
• Paul Wenneker was promoted to the rank of admiral. ww2dbase [Paul Wenneker | CPC]

• USS Flying Fish departed Brisbane, Australia for her eleventh war patrol. ww2dbase [Flying Fish | Brisbane, Queensland | CPC]

• Escort carrier USS Bogue and her task group departed Bermuda bound for their patrol area in the Central Atlantic. ww2dbase [Bogue | Port Royal Bay | DS]

• USS Pollack served on lifeguard station in support of the air strikes on Woleai, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Pollack | Woleai | CPC]

• Joseph Stilwell was promoted to full general; his trusted deputy Frank Merrill pinned the fourth star on his superior's uniform. On the same day, Stilwell met with Louis Mountbatten at Kandy, Ceylon to discuss Stilwell's temporary command over Mountbatten's theater while Mountbatten planned for a trip to Britain. ww2dbase [Joseph Stilwell | Louis Mountbatten | Frank Merrill | Kandy | CPC]

• General Philippe Leclerc's 2nd French Division landed on "Utah" beach, Normandie, France. ww2dbase [Philippe Leclerc | Normandy Campaign, Phase 2 | Basse-Normandie | AC]
• Two brand-new Allied armoured divisions, the 4th Canadian and 1st Polish, arrived in Normandy, France. They were tasked with executing the final great break-out from the British sector to trap and destroy the German armies in Normandy or send them reeling back to the Seine. ww2dbase [Normandy Campaign, Phase 2 | Basse-Normandie | AC]

• USS Ranger arrived at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii for two months duty as a training carrier in and around Hawaii. ww2dbase [Ranger | Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]
• Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Sargent Bay arrived at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. 85 passenger-patients were transferred to the Naval Hospital. 234 Japanese prisoners of war were disembarked, ten having died during the passage and were buried at sea. ww2dbase [Sargent Bay | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]
• The keel of landing ship No. 142 was laid down by Kawanami Kogyo. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]

• Z35 and Z36 sailed into the Gulf of Riga to bombard Soviet positions in Latvia. ww2dbase [Z36 | Z35 | Gulf of Riga | CPC]

• Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Steamer Bay arrived at Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Steamer Bay | Majuro | DS]

• Soviet 1st Byelorussian Front under Konstantin Rokossovsky arrived in the suburbs of Warsaw, Poland. In concert, at 1700 hours, an uprising consisted of 50,000 resistance fighters began to disrupt the German preparations against the Soviet attack. Most of the 50,000 fighters belonged to the Home Army, but there were also some communist partisans, Boy Scouts, and Girl Guides in the ranks. Roughly 80-90% of the fighters began the uprising without firearms. ww2dbase [Warsaw Uprising | Warsaw | TH, CPC]
• The Soviet-backed Polish Committee of National Liberation established its headquarters in Lublin, Poland. ww2dbase [Lublin | CPC]

• On completing an anti-diver patrol against V-1 flying bombs, Flight Lieutenant F. Wiza's Yellow Section of 306 Squadron (Polish) RAF received a warning that they were 10 miles off the English coast and were vectored into a "safe lane" away from anti-aircraft batteries; as the Mustang III fighters crossed the coast they found themselves under intense fire; fortunately no aircraft were hit. 96 Squadron lost a Mosquito aircraft and crew whilst the night fighter was landing in bad weather and visibility; Flight Officer Ray Ball and his navigator Flight Officer Fred Saunders were both killed as was Leading Aircraftman Charlie Allen on the ground. ww2dbase [V-Weapons Campaign | England | HM]

• The second XP-80A prototype jet aircraft "Silver Ghost" took its first flight. ww2dbase [P-80 Shooting Star | CPC]
• Aubrey Fitch was made the US Navy Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air, replacing John McCain. ww2dbase [Aubrey Fitch | Washington | DS]
• USS North Carolina arrived at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard for an overhaul. ww2dbase [Puget Sound Navy Yard | North Carolina | Bremerton, Washington | DS]

• USS Sunfish arrived at Midway Atoll, ending her seventh war patrol. ww2dbase [Sunfish (Gato-class) | Midway Bases | Midway | CPC]

1 Aug 1944 Interactive Map