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• 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]

• Soviet Union began probing Finland for possible peace terms after the Finns successfully repulsed Soviet offensives at the Tali-Ihantala region in Finland. ww2dbase [Battle of Tali-Ihantala and Battle of Vuosalmi | CPC]

• 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]

• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against railroad yards in Munich, Germany. ww2dbase [RAF Thurleigh | Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Munich, Bavaria | DS]

• 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]

• Kamoi exited dock No. 1 and was tied to quay No. 14 at Singapore. ww2dbase [Kamoi | Singapore | CPC]

• 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]

• USS Whale departed Midway Atoll. ww2dbase [Whale | Midway Bases | Midway | CPC]

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