5 Sep 1944
  • US Third Army crossed the Meuse River while the British forces reached Ghent, Belgium. ww2dbase [Liberation of Belgium | TH]
  • US 83rd Infantry Division became part of the VIII Corps of the Ninth Army of the US 12th Army Group. ww2dbase [CPC]
  • USS Bailey departed the Solomon Islands as part of a convoy bound for the landings on the southern Palau islands. ww2dbase [Bailey | Palau Islands and Ulithi Islands Campaigns | DS]
Czechoslovakia
  • Ján Golian was given the rank of general and was given responsibility to direct the Slovak National Uprising. ww2dbase [Slovak National Uprising | CPC]
Germany Hawaii Japan Mariana Islands
  • USS Whale departed Tanapag Harbor, Saipan, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Whale | Tanapag, Saipan | CPC]
Panama Canal Zone
  • USS Kete arrived at the Panama Canal Zone. ww2dbase [Kete | CPC]
Poland
  • Jewish ghettos at Łódź, Poland were evacuated by German authorities. ww2dbase [Łódź | CPC]
Romania Taiwan
  • Patrol Boat No. 102, Patrol Boat No. 104, and Submarine Chaser No. 21 departed Kirun (Chinese: Keelung), Taiwan at 0920 hours to escort convoy TAMO-25 consisted of Saiho Maru, Mitsuki Maru, Atlas Maru, Kokka Maru, Hengshan Maru, Meiryu Maru, Tatsusho Maru, and Tatsutama Maru. Kokka Maru ran aground shortly after departing Kirun; she would later be refloated and returned to Kirun. ww2dbase [Stewart | Kirun, Taihoku | CPC]
United Kingdom Photo(s) dated 5 Sep 1944
Corporal Charles Johnson of the 783rd Military Police Battalion waved on a supply truck near Alenon, France, 5 Sep 1944LST-72 and LST-325 unloading directly onto trucks after being left African-American US Army nurses in a classroom at the Army Nurse Training Center in England, United Kingdom, 5 Sep 1944Map depicting the dispositions of the US 3rd Army at the evening of 5 Sep 1944
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Contributors: Alan Chanter, C. Peter Chen, Thomas Houlihan, Hugh Martyr, David Stubblebine
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