16 Aug 1944


- USS Croaker sank a Japanese patrol vessel with 1 of 3 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Croaker | CPC]
- U-23 began her sixteenth and final war patrol. ww2dbase [U-23 | CPC]
- Allied aircraft sank French cruiser Dupleix. ww2dbase [Dupleix | CPC]
- USS Finback, with the new commanding officer Lieutenant Commander Robert Russell Williams, Jr., departed Majuro, Marshall Islands for her tenth war patrol. ww2dbase [Finback | CPC]
- At Bafour, France, British Lieutenant Tasker Watkins captured two German machine gun posts, eliminated an anti-tank gun, led in a defense of a German counterattack, and while the company attempted to return to Allied lines silenced another machine gun position by himself. He would later win the Victoria Cross. Later in life he served as a Lord Justice of Appeal and deputy Lord Chief Justice of the United Kingdom. ww2dbase [CPC]
- George Patton was promoted to the permanent rank of major general, bypassing the permanent rank of brigadier general. ww2dbase [George Patton | CPC]
- French resistance fighters captured three German posts along the Swiss border. ww2dbase [The French Resistance | TH]
- Japanese troops entered northeastern Guangxi Province, China. ww2dbase [Operation Ichigo | Guangxi | CPC]
- USS Marblehead bombarded Axis positions near Saint-Raphaël, France. ww2dbase [Invasion of Southern France | Marblehead | Saint-Raphaël, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | CPC]
- Jean de Lattre de Tassigny arrived in Provence, France. ww2dbase [Jean de Lattre de Tassigny | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | CPC]
- The US coastal minesweeper YMSA-24 struck a mine and sank off Saint-Tropez, France. ww2dbase [Saint-Tropez, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | AC]
- USS Parche arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her second war patrol. ww2dbase [Parche | Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | CPC]
- The Naval Air Technical Arsenal at Yokosuka, Japan formally began the development of the aircraft that would later be known as the Ohka. ww2dbase [MXY7 Ohka | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]
- After sundown, 18 Allied aircraft dropped supplies in the Kampinos Forest outside of Warsaw, Poland. 3 aircraft of No. 31 Squadron SAAF and 2 aircraft of No. 1586th (Polish Special Duties) Flight RAF were lost. ww2dbase [Warsaw Uprising | Warsaw | CPC]
- A V-1 flying bomb exploded in High Street of Walthamstow in east London, England, United Kingdom killing 17 and injuring 62. Nine more people were killed further south in Brockley. Deptford in south-east London received its 7th bomb which damaged houses that were already being repaired and killed 7. Officers and men of the squadrons based at RAF Dettling, north-east of Maidstone, Kent, southern England were not amused when a bomb was shot down and exploded not far from their control tower and sending three airmen to hospital. ww2dbase [V-Weapons Campaign | Vergeltungswaffe 1 | Detling, England | HM]



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