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• USS Franklin launched strikes against Okinawa. ww2dbase [Franklin | CPC]
• 10 Lancaster bombers conducted minelaying operations off Helgoland, Germany. ww2dbase [CPC]
• British troops captured Corinth, Greece. On the same day, German Armeegruppe E started its final retreat from Greece. ww2dbase [TH]
• Soviet units reached the Baltic coast at Memel (now Klaipeda, Lithuania), cutting off the 26 divisions of German Armeegruppe Nord once and for all. ww2dbase [Operation Bagration | TH]
• German Army put down the anti-Tiso rebellion in Slovakia. ww2dbase [TH]
• Stanley Hollis received the Victoria Cross medal from King George VI. ww2dbase [Stanley Hollis | CPC]
• USS Makin Island became the flagship of Rear Admiral Calvin T. Durgin of an escort carrier task unit. ww2dbase [Makin Island | DS]
• Miklós Horthy, Jr., son of the Hungarian leader, met with Yugoslavians. German intelligence learned of this anti-German act, but decided not to take any action. ww2dbase [CPC]
• USS Pollack completed the exercise with HMAS Geelong off Brisbane, Australia and sailed for the Hawaii Islands. ww2dbase [Pollack | CPC]
• USS Iowa arrived off Okinawa, Japan to cover carriers while the carrier aircraft struck targets in the Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan. ww2dbase [Iowa | CPC]
• Auxiliary escort Kari was sunk by US Task Force 38 carrier aircraft off Okinawa, Japan. ww2dbase [Kashi | CPC]
• Walter Stettner von Grabenhofen stepped down as the commanding officer of 1st Mountain Division. ww2dbase [Walter Stettner von Grabenhofen | CPC]

• Belgian collaborators being held in Fort Breendonk were transferred to the Dossin Barracks in Mechelen, Belgium. ww2dbase [Fort Breendonk | Nuremberg Trials and Other Trials Against Germany | Breendonk | CPC]

• Personnel of the 761st Tank Battalion arrived on the continent of Europe at Omaha Beach, Normandy, France. Ruben Rivers was among its members. ww2dbase [Ruben Rivers | Omaha Beach, Normandy | DS]

• Submarine USS Spearfish arrived at Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i. ww2dbase [Spearfish | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Sasebo, Japan. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Sasebo, Nagasaki | CPC]
• USS Wasp's aircraft attacked positions on Okinawa, Anami, and Miyaki of the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. ww2dbase [Wasp (Essex-class) | Okinawa | CPC]
• Landing ship No. 157 was sunk by US aircraft at Naha, Okinawa, Japan. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | Naha, Okinawa | CPC]

• Z35 and Z36 began escorting heavy cruisers Lützow and Prinz Eugen as the cruiser shelled Soviet targets in the areas of Klaipėda (German: Memel) and Liepāja (German: Libau), Latvia. ww2dbase [Prinz Eugen | Lützow | Z35 | Z36 | Klaipėda | CPC]

• USS Miami operated off Okinawa, Japan. ww2dbase [Miami | CPC]

• A Soviet military tribunal sentenced Rudolf Körpert, Otto Mäder, and four other former officers of German-run prisoners of war camps to death. ww2dbase [Nuremberg Trials and Other Trials Against Germany | CPC]

• UIT-24 departed Penang. ww2dbase [Comandante Cappellini | Penang | CPC]

• USS St. Louis returned to San Pedro, California. ww2dbase [St. Louis | San Pedro, California | DS]

• Red Army cracked the German line in the Serbia region of Yugoslavia en route to Belgrade. ww2dbase [Belgrade Strategic Offensive Operation | Serbia | TH]

10 Oct 1944 Interactive Map