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• USS Flasher sank Japanese transport ship Ural Maru, killing about 2,000. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• German Armeegruppe E withdrew from western Greece. ww2dbase [TH]
• Allied troops captured Helmond and Oss in the Netherlands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• TDR aircraft conducted their first operational sortie, bombing Japanese ships. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Sunfish arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her eighth war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Unryu arrived at Kure, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

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

• USS Whale was spotted by a Japanese patrol craft between Taiwan and Philippine Islands but was able to escape. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

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

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

27 Sep 1944 Interactive Map