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• USS Blackfin departed from Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. ww2dbase [Blackfin | CPC]
• The last of the German guns at Calais, France that had been shelling the Dover, England, United Kingdom for three years was destroyed. Shortly after, the 7,500 German garrison at Calais surrendered to Canadian troops. ww2dbase [TH]
• Italian minelayer FR 71, captured from the French Navy in 1942, was returned to France. ww2dbase [CPC]
• USS Nicholas arrived at Morotai, Maluku Islands. ww2dbase [Nicholas | DS]

• Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Steamer Bay returned to Seeadler Harbor, Manus, Admiralty Islands. ww2dbase [Steamer Bay | Manus, Admiralty Islands | DS]

• B-24 and B-25 bombers of US 14th Air Force attacked Tianhe Airfield in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. ww2dbase [Tianhe Airfield | Guangzhou, Guangdong | CPC]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Balikpapan, Dutch Borneo. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Balikpapan, Borneo | CPC]

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

• Destroyer Yuzuki arrived at Sasebo, Japan for a scheduled overhaul. ww2dbase [Yuzuki | Sasebo Naval Arsenal | Sasebo, Nagasaki | CPC]
• Unryu departed Kure, Japan. ww2dbase [Unryu | Kure, Hiroshima | CPC]
• Landing ship No. 160 was completed. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]

• USS Escolar sent out a distress radio signal noting that she was under enemy gunboat attack. ww2dbase [Escolar | Yellow Sea | CPC]

• In the southern Sulu Sea, submarine USS Narwhal was approached by a Japanese patrol plane. Narwhal dived but her aft diving planes lost power and became locked in place at a 20-degree down-angle sending the submarine nearly straight down. Narwhal blew her main ballast tanks and backed her propellers at full speed which stopped the boat's descent at 170 feet. Narwhal was now so buoyant, however, that she popped back to the surface like a cork. Control was quickly regained to allow Narwhal to submerge safely to 90 feet before the patrol plane could react to the submarine's sudden surfacing. ww2dbase [Narwhal | Sulu Sea | DS]

• A V-1 flying bomb caused 5 deaths and many injuries when a row of houses was demolished at Ardleigh in Essex, England, United Kingdom. The USAAF base at Thorpe Abbots, home of the 100th Bomb Group ("The Bloody 100th") reported buzz bombs flying over the airfield at 150 feet before exploding in the farm fields surrounding the base. A US 8th Air Force 750-bomber raid on Munster and Handorf in Germany killed the Staffelkapitän and the training officer of German Air Force 7/KG3; records captured by the Allies showed that 177 flying bombs had been launched by the Staffel during 13 nights of sorties in Sep 1944. ww2dbase [V-Weapons Campaign | Vergeltungswaffe 1 | England | HM]
• Operation Frantic 8, a USAAF air mission to supply Polish resistance fighters in Warsaw, Poland scheduled for this date, was postponed to 1 Oct 1944. ww2dbase [Operation Frantic | Warsaw Uprising | England | CPC]

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