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• US VII Corps met resistance attacking toward Saint-Lô, France. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• The last 35,000 men of German 4.Armee surrendered to Soviet troops at Minsk, Byelorussia. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• Claus von Stauffenberg was summoned to see Adolf Hitler in Berchtesgaden, Germany regarding the situation of the Home Army. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Leng Peishu, flying a P-40N fighter, scored his first victory while covering B-24 bombers, shooting down one Ki-43-II aircraft of Japanese 48th Sentai, while damaging another. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Japanese 18th Army under Lieutenant General Hatazo Adachi launched a counterattack in the Aitape-New Hollandia area in New Guinea, placing pressure on American troops but sustaining heavy casualties. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• The full strength of Soviet 115th Corps was now located on the northern bank of the Vuoksi River in Finland. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Light carrier Ryuho entered the drydocks at Kure, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• USS Whale arrived at Midway Atoll, ending her eighth war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

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