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• USS Gar reported damaging a Japanese ship with her deck gun. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• US troops captured St. Mére-Eglise, France, cutting major road and rail links to the Cherbourg Peninsula. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• In an attempt to push Finland out of the war, Soviet forces launched a major assault against Finnish troops on the Karelian Isthmus. ww2dbase [TH]
• The Avro Lincoln bomber took its first flight. Originally known as the Lancaster IV, the Lincoln was produced to meet an Air Ministry requirement for a Lancaster replacement, but in 1943 the requirement was changed to developing a long-range bomber for operations in the Pacific Theatre (Tiger Force). The first Lincoln bombers would reach RAF Squadrons in Aug 1945, just too late to see service in World War II. They were however later used in operations against communist guerrillas in Malaya and against Mau Mau bandits in Kenya. ww2dbase [AC]
• The Japanese frontal-attack on Gurkha positions on Scraggy Hill was met with heavy losses, particularly to superior British firepower and air support. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Fahnenjunker-Feldwebel Willi Braun and Fahnenjunker-Feldwebel Gerhard Dietrich of the German Kampfgeschwader 55 wing were awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Soviet Stavka ordered a general offensive against Finland. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Charles Lindbergh, as an employee of the firm United Aircraft, flew a F4U fighter ostensibly as an observer, accompany other combat aircraft over Rabaul, New Britain. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• No. 617 Squadron RAF (The Dambusters) dropped Barnes Wallis' new 12,000-lb "Tallboy" bomb for the first time on the Saumur railway tunnel in central France, which was being used by German reinforcements moving towards Normandie, France. ww2dbase [AC]

• USS Harder attacked two Japanese destroyers between Tawi-Tawi and Jolo in the Philippine islands with 4 torpedoes, sinking Tanikaze with 2 hits and sinking another with 1 hit; 4 torpedoes were expended in this attack. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Roza Shanina was featured on the front page of the Soviet newspaper Unichtozhim Vraga. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

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