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• Operation Goodwood I and Goodwood II: British carrier aircraft (32 Barracuda dive bombers and 43 fighters) from HMS Formidable, Indefatigable, Furious, Nabob, and Trumpeter attacked German battleship Tirpitz to little effect. ww2dbase [Tirpitz | CPC]
• USS Tang sank Japanese patrol boat Nansatsu Maru No. 2, hitting her with one of four torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Tang | CPC]
• USS Pintado detected a 11-ship Japanese convoy during the day. After sundown, she fired ten torpedoes at the convoy, sinking the large tanker Tonan Maru No. 2 and damaging two other ships with a total of four hits. ww2dbase [Pintado | CPC]
• USS Sennet was commissioned into service with Commander George E. Porter in command. ww2dbase [Sennet | CPC]
• Léon Degrelle was mentioned in the Wehrmachtbericht. ww2dbase [Léon Degrelle | CPC]

• HMS Mauritius sank five German coastal patrol Vorpostenboot vessels off France. ww2dbase [Mauritius | CPC]

• USS Honolulu arrived at Tulagi, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Honolulu | Walden Ainsworth | Tulagi, Solomon Islands | DS]

• USS Flying Fish attacked a Japanese transport in the Dutch East Indies; all 3 torpedoes fired missed. ww2dbase [Flying Fish | CPC]

• Having been convinced by Charles de Gaulle two days prior that Paris, France must be captured with haste, Dwight Eisenhower traveled to Omar Bradley's headquarters to discuss the logistics. ww2dbase [Liberation of Paris | Dwight Eisenhower | CPC]

• Adolf Hitler ordered the destruction of Paris, France on the following day. ww2dbase [Liberation of Paris | Adolf Hitler | CPC]

• Light carrier Ryuho departed Hashirajima, Japan for Yashima, Japan. ww2dbase [Ryuho | Hashirajima, Yamaguchi | CPC]
• Landing ship No. 161 was launched. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]

• American submarine USS Bowfin attacked Japanese convoy Namo 103 and sank passenger ship Tsushima Maru near the island of Akusekijima. 2,251 aboard were killed, including 767 children; most of those killed were civilian evacuees from Okinawa. ww2dbase [Bowfin | Tsushima Maru | CPC]
• USS Gunnel attacked a Japanese transport in the South China Sea; all 6 torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Gunnel | South China Sea | CPC]

• USS Harder assisted in the sinking of Japanese frigates Matsuwa and Hiburi off Bataan, Luzon, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Harder | CPC]
• Patrol Boat No. 102 departed Cavite, Philippines for Manila, conducting compass calibration trials en route; she arrived at Manila at 1143 hours. ww2dbase [Stewart | Cavite | CPC]

• Kamoi took on a cargo of coal at Singapore. ww2dbase [Kamoi | Singapore | CPC]

• 111/KG3 of the German Air Force launched 21 sorties during the early hours from their new base at Venlo in the south east of the Netherlands. All Heinkel bombers returned safely after launching their V-1 flying bombs. One of these impacted on just half a mile down Oak Lane, where the railway bridge had just been repaired. Another clipped some elm trees near some cottages and span into on of them killing a man and a woman, orphaning the two children who were dug out of the wreckage unhurt. ww2dbase [V-Weapons Campaign | Vergeltungswaffe 1 | Newington, England | HM]

• USS Sunfish departed Midway Atoll for her eighth war patrol. ww2dbase [Sunfish (Gato-class) | Midway Bases | Midway | CPC]

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