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• Operation Goodwood I and Goodwood II: British carrier aircraft (32 Barracuda dive bombers and 43 fighters) from HMS Formidable, Indefatigable, Furious, Nabob, and Trumpeter attacked German battleship Tirpitz to little effect. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• American submarine USS Bowfin attacked Japanese convoy Namo 103 and sank passenger ship Tsushima Maru near the island of Akusekijima. 2,251 aboard were killed, including 767 children; most of those killed were civilian evacuees from Okinawa. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Tang sank Japanese patrol boat Nansatsu Maru No. 2, hitting her with one of four torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Pintado detected a 11-ship Japanese convoy during the day. After sundown, she fired ten torpedoes at the convoy, sinking the large tanker Tonan Maru No. 2 and damaging two other ships with a total of four hits. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Sennet was commissioned into service with Commander George E. Porter in command. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Léon Degrelle was mentioned in the Wehrmachtbericht. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• HMS Mauritius sank five German coastal patrol Vorpostenboot vessels off France. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Flying Fish attacked a Japanese transport in the Dutch East Indies; all 3 torpedoes fired missed. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Having been convinced by Charles de Gaulle two days prior that Paris, France must be captured with haste, Dwight Eisenhower traveled to Omar Bradley's headquarters to discuss the logistics. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | CPC]

• Adolf Hitler ordered the destruction of Paris, France on the following day. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | CPC]

• Light carrier Ryuho departed Hashirajima, Japan for Yashima, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]
• Landing ship No. 161 was launched. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Gunnel attacked a Japanese transport in the South China Sea; all 6 torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Harder assisted in the sinking of Japanese frigates Matsuwa and Hiburi off Bataan, Luzon, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Kamoi took on a cargo of coal at Singapore. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• 111/KG3 of the German Air Force launched 21 sorties during the early hours from their new base at Venlo in the south east of the Netherlands. All Heinkel bombers returned safely after launching their V-1 flying bombs. One of these impacted on just half a mile down Oak Lane, where the railway bridge had just been repaired. Another clipped some elm trees near some cottages and span into on of them killing a man and a woman, orphaning the two children who were dug out of the wreckage unhurt. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | HM]

• USS Sunfish departed Midway Atoll for her eighth war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

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