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- USS Cod sank a Japanese merchant ship. ww2dbase [Cod | CPC]
- Hitler ordered a counterattack east of Avranches, France to regain the coast. ww2dbase [Normandy Campaign, Phase 2 | TH]
- US 83rd Infantry Division became part of the US VIII Corps. ww2dbase [CPC]
- USS Bailey arrived at Eniwetok, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Bailey | DS]
- A two-month siege by US and Chinese forces at Myitkyina in Burma finally succeeded in capturing it. ww2dbase [Battle of Myitkyina | Myitkyina | TH]
- Gao Youxin, flying a P-40 Warhawk fighter, destroyed a Japanese aircraft on the ground at Henyang Airfield, Hunan Province, China. ww2dbase [Gao Youxin | Henyang, Hunan | CPC]
- Landing ship No. 138 was launched. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]
- The first Soviet attacks east of Warsaw, Poland were repulsed by the Germans. ww2dbase [Operation Bagration | Warsaw | TH]
- King George VI of the United Kingdom gave Royal approval to R. A. Butler's Education Act which introduced wide ranging changes to secondary school education in England and Wales. ww2dbase [AC]
- RAF Hendon north of London, England, United Kingdom was hit by a V-1 flying bomb in the early hours; it demolished a barrack block and 5 accommodation huts where 5 airmen were killed and over 25 wounded. The area around Maidstone in Kent in southern England received V-1 flying bombs throughout the morning, one of them fell after snagging the wires of a barrage balloon; it killed 5 workmen on the railway and another 7 had to be hospitalized. First Lieutenant Jack Robinson USAAF of 416th Fighter-Bomber Group flying a P-47 aircraft shot down a V-1 flying bomb; this episode was watched by civilians on the ground near Ashford, Kent who cheered as the bomb veered away and exploded in woodland. ww2dbase [V-Weapons Campaign | Vergeltungswaffe 1 | London, England | HM]
- USS Spot was commissioned into service with Commander William S. Post, Jr. in command. ww2dbase [Spot | CPC]
- Submarine Springer was launched at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, sponsored by the wife of M. S. Tisdale. ww2dbase [Springer | Mare Island Navy Yard | Vallejo, California | CPC]




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