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• American troops captured Coutances, France. ww2dbase [Normandy Campaign, Phase 2 | TH]
• With Geoffrey de Havilland Jr. at the controls, the de Havilland Hornet aircraft made its maiden flight. The Hornet entered service in 1946. ww2dbase [AC]
• The Dutch government issued a protest over the atrocities committed by the crew of Japanese I-8 against the survivors of sunken merchant ship Tjisalak. ww2dbase [CPC]
• USS Bailey departed the Saipan area as an escort of the convoy bound for Eniwetok. ww2dbase [Bailey | DS]

• East of Bermuda, aircraft from escort carrier USS Bogue, along with Bogue's task group, spent two days conducting anti-submarine exercises against submarine USS R6. ww2dbase [Bogue | DS]

• USS Ray departed Fremantle, Australia after restocking her store of torpedoes. ww2dbase [Ray | Fremantle, Western Australia | CPC]

• Wang Guangfu, flying a P-40N fighter, shot down a Ki-44 aircraft of Japanese Army 9th Sentai over China. ww2dbase [Wang Guangfu | CPC]
• Wang Guangfu, flying a P-40N fighter, shot down a Ki-44 aircraft and damaged another over China. ww2dbase [Wang Guangfu | CPC]

• Obersturmbannf?hrer Christian Tychsen, commander of German 2 SS Panzer Division "Das Reich", was killed in a firefight with American troops. ww2dbase [Normandy Campaign, Phase 1 | Basse-Normandie | AC]

• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against I.G. Farben synthetic oil facilities at Merseburg, Germany. ww2dbase [RAF Thurleigh | Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Merseburg | DS]

• US Marines captured the old US Marine Corps parade ground on Guam, Mariana Islands. Elsewhere on the island, Lieutenant General Takeshi Takashina, commanding the 19,000 Japanese garrison on Guam, was killed by machine gun fire. ww2dbase [Mariana Islands Campaign and the Great Turkey Shoot | CPC, AC]

• USS Hawkbill arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Hawkbill | Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Sargent Bay departed Majuro, Marshall Islands bound for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, still with 244 Japanese prisoners of war on board. ww2dbase [Sargent Bay | Majuro | DS]

• Brest-Litovsk, Poland (now in Belarus), site of a joint German-Soviet victory parade in 1939, was captured by Soviet forces after heavy fighting. ww2dbase [Operation Bagration | Brzesc nad Bugiem, Polesie | TH]

• Escort carrier USS Card departed San Juan, Puerto Rico after repairs to her engines. Acting on intelligence intercepts, Card and her task unit began pursuing a German submarine reported leaving the Caribbean to cross the Atlantic. ww2dbase [Conclusion of the Battle of the Atlantic | Card | San Juan | DS]

• Kamoi took on a cargo of food at Singapore. ww2dbase [Kamoi | Singapore | CPC]

• One of the worst V-1 flying bomb incidents happened at 0935 hours when a bomb hit the crowded shopping centre in Lewisham, London, England, United Kingdom. It landed on the roof of a street level shelter outside a Marks & Spencer department store. It caused major damage to the store and the Woolworths next to it. Many were killed in the Woolworth's basement restaurant area and passing buses were ripped apart. 51 people were killed instantly and others in hospital later. The blast zone of this bomb stretched for 600 yards in all directions. The day was made worse when another 45 were killed in Kensington High Street in central London. ww2dbase [V-Weapons Campaign | Vergeltungswaffe 1 | London, England | HM]

• USS Copahee arrived at San Diego, California, United States with 14 captured Japanese aircraft and 37 captured engines. ww2dbase [Copahee | San Diego, California | CPC]
• With planes and personnel of Night Fighter squadron VF(N)-102 aboard as well as additional aircraft for transportation, USS Ranger departed San Diego bound for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ww2dbase [Ranger | San Diego, California | DS]
• USS Corregidor arrived at San Diego, California, United States for an overhaul. ww2dbase [Corregidor | San Diego, California | CPC]

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