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- Hideyoshi Obata passed away. ww2dbase [Hideyoshi Obata | CPC]
- USS Tang sank Roko Maru and damaged another freighter with a total of five torpedoes, then endured a 38-minute-long depth charge attack. ww2dbase [Tang | CPC]
- Lieutenant General Guy Simmonds of the 11 Canadian Corps called off Operation Totalize after it became clear that the expected breakthrough would not be achieved. Nevertheless the Canadian and Polish armoured divisions had advanced eight miles, against numerous well-constructed enemy bunkers which were immune to bombing, and were now half way between Caen and Falais. Whilst Simmonds blamed ther lack of success on the inexperience of the two divisions, General Maczek of the Polish Armoured Division was more realistic in stating that the troops had been given just too much to do. The Poles had lost 66 tanks and the Canadian slightly more during Operation Totalize. On the same day, US forces captured Nantes and Angers and then moved across the Loire River; in response, the German Navy scuttled 26 warships and 28 merchant vessels stranded at Nantes, Bordeaux, and in the Gironde and Seine estuaries. ww2dbase [Normandy Campaign, Phase 2 | AC]
- In northern Burma the Chindits' 7th Leicesters fought their way into Taungni cutting the rail line. ww2dbase [Operation Thursday | AC]
- USS Wake Island detached from Allied convoy UC-32. ww2dbase [Wake Island | CPC]
- USS Bailey arrived at Purvis Bay, Florida Island, Solomon Islands. Bailey began a repair period alongside the tender USS Dixie the included repainting Bailey in Dazzle paint scheme Measure 31, Design 6D. ww2dbase [Bailey | Florida Island, Solomon Islands | DS]
- The wreck of Ermland was towed to Nantes, France and sunk as a block ship. ww2dbase [Ermland | Nantes, Pays de la Loire | CPC]
- USS New Mexico arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [New Mexico | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
- Submarine USS Growler departed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii for her tenth war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Growler | Pearl Harbor, Hawaii | DS]
- Greek 3rd Mountain Brigade arrived in Italy from French Syria-Lebanon. ww2dbase [CPC]
- 24 China-based B-29 Superfortress bombers of US 20th Bomb Squadron attacked Nagasaki, Japan between about midnight until 0312 hours. They targeted industrial areas, but most of the bombs ended up exploding in the damp forest near Oyama and Mount Hiko. 9 homes were destroyed, about 50 homes were damaged, 13 people were killed, and 26 people were seriously injured. ww2dbase [Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities | Nagasaki | CPC]
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