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• Chaim Rumkowski passed away. ww2dbase [Chaim Rumkowski | CPC]
• US troops crossed the Marne River in France. ww2dbase [TH]

• 32 P-40 fighters of the US 14th Air Force (including several flown by Chinese pilots) attacked the Japanese airfield near Hengyang, Hunan, China. Ki-43 fighters of the Japanese 48th Sentai and Ki-84 fighters of the Japanese 22nd Sentai rose the intercept, shooting down 1 Chinese P-40 fighter and 3 American P-40 fighters; 6 Japanese fighters were lost. ww2dbase [Hengyang, Hunan | CPC]
• Eight B-25 bombers of US 14th Air Force attacked Tianhe Airfield in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. ww2dbase [Tianhe Airfield | Guangzhou, Guangdong | CPC]

• Additional German troops entered Slovakia in response to partisan activities in Slovakia and Romania, effecting a total occupation. ww2dbase [Slovak National Uprising | CPC]

• Oberfeldwebel Hieronymus Lauer became the first to be shot down by US fighters while flying a jet aircraft. His Me 262 fighter was shot down by Major Joseph Myers and 2nd Lieutenant Manford Croy, Jr. of 82nd Fighter Squadron of USAAF 78th Fighter Group, both flying P-47 fighters. When Lauer was shot down at 1915 hours, his guns were not even loaded, as he was on a ferry flight between Juvincourt, France and Chievres, Belgium. Lauer survived the subsequent crash landing. ww2dbase [Me 262 Schwalbe | CPC]
• Gloire completed its mission as a part of Operation Dragoon off southern France. ww2dbase [Gloire | Invasion of Southern France | CPC]
• FR.11 was captured by the Allies at Toulon, France. ww2dbase [Jean de Vienne | Toulon, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | CPC]
• The German garrison in Marseille, France surrendered to French forces. ww2dbase [Invasion of Southern France | Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | TH]
• FR.11 was captured by the Allies at Toulon, France. ww2dbase [Toulon Military Port | Toulon, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | CPC]

• Robert von Greim was awarded Swords to his Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross medal. ww2dbase [Robert von Greim | CPC]
• Ferdinand Schörner was awarded swords to his Knight's Cross the Iron Cross medal. ww2dbase [Ferdinand Schörner | CPC]

• Albert Kesselring was given a captured copy of the Allied Operation Olive plans and learned that the recent Allied attack on the eastern end of the Gothic Line in Italy was part of a major offensive; he gave the order to move three reserve divisions from Bologna to the east coast. ww2dbase [Gothic Line Offensive | CPC]
• Balkan Air Force commanding officer William Elliott ordered the temporary suspension of supply missions over Warsaw, Poland due to losses. ww2dbase [Warsaw Uprising | CPC]

• Landing ship No. 137 was completed. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]

• USS Wasp departed Eniwetok, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Wasp (Essex-class) | Eniwetok | CPC]
• After eight weeks of escort duty, destroyer USS Ralph Talbot was assigned to Task Force 38 Fast Carrier Force as a screening vessel for carriers USS Enterprise, Franklin, and San Jacinto then at Eniwetok, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Ralph Talbot | Eniwetok | DS]

• Escort carrier USS Bogue and her task group departed Argentia, Newfoundland and resumed their patrol. ww2dbase [Bogue | Argentia | DS]

• Canadian journalist Raymond Arthur Davies, sponsored by the Canadian Jewish Congress, visited Majdanek Concentration Camp in occupied Poland. ww2dbase [Majdanek Concentration Camp | Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Lublin | CPC]

• Allied convoy RA-59A departed the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Murmansk | CPC]

• Of 97 V-1 flying bombs launched this day from the Netherlands only 4 got through the anti-aircraft and fighter cordon, the fighters taking down 23 and the anti-aircraft guns 65 (Folkestone hitting 58), the remainder struck barrage balloon wires. Some of the bombs were found to be carrying propaganda leaflets. Only two serious casualties were reported during the day. Although 41 squadron had been stood down from V-1 patrols Flight Lieutenant Terry Spencer whilst carrying out tests in his Spitfire XII fighter saw a bomb passing over the town of Rye, Kent, England, United Kingdom he gave chase and brought it down in farmland; it was the Unit's 53rd and last victory. ww2dbase [V-Weapons Campaign | Vergeltungswaffe 1 | Rye, England | HM]

• USS Sea Cat departed New London, Connecticut, United States for US Territory of Hawaii via the Panama Canal. ww2dbase [Sea Cat | New London, Connecticut | CPC]

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