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• Shokaku arrived at Guimaras. ww2dbase [Shokaku | CPC]
• American troops captured Carentan, France. ww2dbase [Normandy Campaign, Phase 1 | TH]
• USS Tunny passed through Balintang Channel, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Tunny | CPC]
• Light carrier Ryuho arrived at Guimaras, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Ryuho | CPC]
• Destroyers USS Nicholas, USS Hopewell, USS O'Bannon, and USS Taylor were detached from the submarine hunter-killer group centered around escort carrier USS Hoggatt Bay. ww2dbase [Nicholas | DS]

• Jaguar and Falke were sunk by British bombers off the French coast. ww2dbase [Jaguar | Falke | Normandy Campaign, Phase 1 | English Channel | CPC]

• USS Ray arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her fourth war patrol. ww2dbase [Ray | Fremantle, Western Australia | CPC]

• Finnish troops failed a counterattack against the recent Soviet offensive; Soviet troops pursued the withdrawing Finns and breached the Vammelsuu-Taipale defensive line in Finland. ww2dbase [Battle of Tali-Ihantala and Battle of Vuosalmi | CPC]

• Company commander Matthew Urban found his men pinned down by Germans in Normandie, France. With a bazooka, exposing himself to enemy fire, he destroyed two German tanks, allowing his men to counterattack and eventually overtake the Germans. He was wounded twice later on the same days and was forced to evacuate. ww2dbase [Matthew Urban | Basse-Normandie | JR]
• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against the airfield at Brétigny-sur-Orge, France. ww2dbase [Bombing of Cities in France and Low Countries | RAF Thurleigh | Brétigny-sur-Orge | DS]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 3 on board. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]
• USS Ralph Talbot departed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii as part of a convoy screening unit that ultimately arrived at Saipan, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Ralph Talbot | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]

• Allied troops captured Orvieto, Italy. ww2dbase [Advance to the Gothic Line | Orvieto, Umbria | TH]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]

• USS New Mexico bombarded Tinian, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Mariana Islands Campaign and the Great Turkey Shoot | New Mexico | Tinian | CPC]
• Cruisers USS Wichita, USS New Orleans, and USS St. Louis maintained station east of Tinian, Mariana Islands ready to offer counter-battery fire if needed while other ships bombarded Saipan. ww2dbase [Mariana Islands Campaign and the Great Turkey Shoot | New Orleans | St. Louis | Tinian | DS]
• Battleships USS Pennsylvania and USS Idaho with cruiser USS Honolulu conducted pre-invasion bombardments of Saipan, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Mariana Islands Campaign and the Great Turkey Shoot | Walden Ainsworth | Pennsylvania | Honolulu | Saipan | DS]

• The US submarine Golet became missing; she was believed to be sunk by Japanese naval vessels off Honshu, Japan. ww2dbase [Golet | AC]
• USS Archerfish arrived at her assigned lifeguard station. ww2dbase [Archerfish | CPC]
• USS Rasher attacked a Japanese convoy with 5 torpedoes in the Celebes Sea at 1003 hours, claiming 5 hits, 1 sinking, and 2 ships damaged. The ship that sank was Koan Maru, whose captain remained on the bridge and went down with the ship. ww2dbase [Rasher | Stewart | Celebes Sea | CPC]

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