26 Sep 1944
- Allied troops captured Mook, the Netherlands. ww2dbase [Operation Market Garden | CPC]
- German shore batteries, cut off behind Allied lines around Calais in France, bombarded Dover, England, United Kingdom, killing 49 people. The Royal Air Force retaliated with a series of bombing raids in which the gun sites were pounded into silence. ww2dbase [AC]
- Lord Gort stepped down as the Governor of Malta. ww2dbase [John Vereker | CPC]
- USS Gabilan began her third war patrol in Japanese home island waters. ww2dbase [Gabilan | CPC]
- In the waters off Peleliu, USS Bailey narrowly avoided being struck by falling anti-aircraft shells fired by USS Indianapolis. ww2dbase [Bailey | Palau Islands and Ulithi Islands Campaigns | DS]
- Submarine USS Growler arrived at Fremantle, Australia for a refit after completing her tenth war patrol. ww2dbase [Growler | Fremantle | DS]
- US and British intelligence missions were forced out of Sofia, Bulgaria by political pressure asserted by the Soviet Union. ww2dbase [Sofia | CPC]
- Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Jamuan. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Jamuan, Aceh | CPC]
- All of Estonia was occupied by the Red Army. ww2dbase [TH]
- British 8th Army drove out German positions along the Uso River north of Rimini, Italy. ww2dbase [Gothic Line Offensive | Emilia-Romagna | AC, CPC]
- Unryu departed Yokosuka, Japan. ww2dbase [Unryu | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]
- Destroyer USS Shaw arrived at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands after two months supporting the invasion operations on Guam. ww2dbase [Shaw | Eniwetok | DS]
- USS Whale patrolled in the Bashi Channel between Taiwan and Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Whale | Bashi Channel | CPC]
- Soviet troops fortified positions along the Danube River on the Romanian-Yugoslavian and Romanian-Bulgarian borders. ww2dbase [Jassy-Kishinev Offensive and Romania's Surrender | CPC]
- Joseph Stalin issued an order stating that all arrests of former top level Bulgarian and Romanian leaders could be done only with authorization of the Soviet Stavka. ww2dbase [Joseph Stalin | CPC]
- USS Tunny arrived at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, United States. ww2dbase [Tunny | San Francisco, California | CPC]
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