12 Jul 1944
  • US VII Corps made limited progress toward Saint-Lô, France. ww2dbase [Normandy Campaign, Phase 1 | TH]
  • USS Snook fired four torpedoes at two Japanese freighters; one hit, causing damage but not sinking the target. ww2dbase [Snook | CPC]
  • US Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. passed away from a heart attack in Normandy, France. ww2dbase [AC]
  • Clifton Cates was made the commanding officer of 4th Marine Division. ww2dbase [Clifton Cates | CPC]
  • USS Bailey departed Eniwetok escorting a convoy bound for Saipan, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Bailey | DS]
Finland France
  • Omar Bradley, his staff, and his generals met and created a preliminary plan for what was to become the Operation Cobra offensive in France. ww2dbase [Normandy Campaign, Phase 2 | CPC]
Germany Pacific Ocean
  • Submarines USS Guardfish, USS Thresher, USS Piranha, and USS Apogon attacked the convoy they had been tracking since the previous day. Apogon fired six torpedoes at an auxiliary ship with no hits, but Apogon's periscopes are damaged when she is rammed by a different ship. Piranha torpedoed one cargo ship. Thresher, on the opposite flank of the convoy, was detected by a Japanese escort ship. Thresher evaded but the chase took Thresher 20 miles away from the convoy. Apogon's damage was severe enough that she withdrew from the patrol area and set a course for Pearl Harbor, Hawaiʻi. ww2dbase [Guardfish | Thresher | Apogon | Piranha | Luzon Strait | DS]
Singapore
  • Kamoi exited dock No. 1 and was tied to quay No. 14 at Singapore. ww2dbase [Kamoi | Singapore | CPC]
United Kingdom
  • A V-1 bomb hit "Beechmont House" in Sevenoaks, Kent in southern England, United Kingdom. The house was used as a billet for ATS girls that maintained army vehicles, fortunately most of the girls had left for work, nevertheless two girls were killed and 44 injured. The borough of Beckenham received two fatal hits from the flying bombs; the borough would soon become one of the hardest hit areas in South London. ww2dbase [Vergeltungswaffe 1 | V-Weapons Campaign | Sevenoaks, England | HM]
US Pacific Islands Photo(s) dated 12 Jul 1944
US Marine with flamethrower attacking a Japanese position, northern Saipan, Mariana Islands, 12 Jul 1944; note the scorched building on leftJapanese-American soldiers of the 100th Infantry Battalion of US 442nd Regimental Combat Team in a captured German Schwimmwagen vehicle in the Castellina Sector, near Livorno, Italy, 12 Jul 1944Japanese-American soldiers of 552nd Field Artillery Battalion of US 442nd Regimental Combat Team firing a 105-mm howitzer, Castellina Sector, Livorno, Italy, 12 Jul 1944Japanese-American soldiers of US 442nd Regimental Combat Team firing a 105-mm howitzer, Castellina Sector, Livorno, Italy, 12 Jul 1944
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