World War II Database

• Home
• » Events
• » Events
• » 27 Sep 1944

• USS Flasher sank Japanese transport ship Ural Maru, killing about 2,000. ww2dbase [Flasher | CPC]
• German Armeegruppe E withdrew from western Greece. ww2dbase [TH]
• Allied troops captured Helmond and Oss in the Netherlands. ww2dbase [Battle of the Scheldt Estuary | CPC]
• Frederick Aikman returned to front line service. ww2dbase [Frederick Aikman | CPC]

• Four TDR-1 drones, controlled from TBM-1c aircraft, were launched against beached Japanese freighter used as antiaircraft emplacement off Kahili airstrip, Bougainville. Two drones hit the ship, one crashed just short (bomb did not explode) and one was lost enroute. ww2dbase [TDR | Kahili Airfield | Buin, Bougainville | CPC, DS]

• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against Cologne, Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | RAF Thurleigh | Köln, Köln-Aachen | DS]

• USS Sunfish arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her eighth war patrol. ww2dbase [Sunfish (Gato-class) | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• Unryu arrived at Kure, Japan. ww2dbase [Unryu | Kure, Hiroshima | CPC]

• James Johnson shot down a German Bf 109 fighter over Nijmegen, the Netherlands, scoring his final kill of the war. ww2dbase [James Johnson | Nijmegen | CPC]

• USS Whale was spotted by a Japanese patrol craft between Taiwan and Philippine Islands but was able to escape. ww2dbase [Whale | CPC]
• Kamoi was hit by a torpedo from submarine USS Bonefish in the South China Sea at 0500 hours; she arrived at Manila, Philippine Islands for repairs in the evening. ww2dbase [Kamoi | South China Sea | CPC]
• Submarine USS Thresher destroyed two floating mines with gunfire. ww2dbase [Thresher | Yellow Sea | DS]

• Submarine USS Narwhal put ashore 20 tons of cargo and 3 passengers off Balingasag, Mindanao, Philippines. ww2dbase [Narwhal | Balingasag, Mindanao | DS]

• 2,000 fighters of the Armia Krajowa surrendered in Warsaw, Poland. ww2dbase [Warsaw Uprising | Warsaw | TH]

• Carl Spaatz authorized a plan for Operation Frantic 8, which called for 72 B-17 bombers, 64 P-51 fighters, and 2 Mosquito aircraft to drop supplies to Polish resistance fighters in Warsaw, Poland on 30 Sep 1944. The Soviets, whose bases were required for receiving the bombers after the operation, agreed only after Winston Churchill personally asserted pressure on Joseph Stalin. ww2dbase [Warsaw Uprising | Operation Frantic | England | CPC]

• Battleship USS Wisconsin, with cruiser USS Pasadena, departed Delaware Bay, United States bound for the Panama Canal and the Pacific. ww2dbase [Wisconsin | Pasadena | Delaware Bay | DS]

• USS Tang departed Midway, where she stopped to refuel. ww2dbase [Midway Bases | Tang | Midway | CPC]

27 Sep 1944 Interactive Map