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• Shokaku arrived at Guimaras. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]
• Light carrier Ryuho arrived at Guimaras, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]
• USS Tunny passed through Balintang Channel, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• American troops captured Carentan, France. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]

• USS Ray arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her fourth war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Finnish troops failed a counterattack against the recent Soviet offensive; Soviet troops pursued the withdrawing Finns and breached the Vammelsuu-Taipale defensive line in Finland. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Company commander Matthew Urban found his men pinned down by Germans in Normandie, France. With a bazooka, exposing himself to enemy fire, he destroyed two German tanks, allowing his men to counterattack and eventually overtake the Germans. He was wounded twice later on the same days and was forced to evacuate. ww2dbase [Main Article | JR]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 3 on board. ww2dbase [Main Article | DS]

• Allied troops captured Orvieto, Italy. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• USS New Mexico bombarded Tinian, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | CPC]

• The US submarine Golet became missing; she was believed to be sunk by Japanese naval vessels off Honshu, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | AC]

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