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• 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]

• American troops captured Carentan, France. ww2dbase [Normandy Campaign, Phase 1 | Carentan, Basse-Normandie | TH]
• 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 [RAF Thurleigh | Bombing of Cities in France and Low Countries | 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 [Ralph Talbot | Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]
• Submarines USS Guardfish, USS Thresher, and USS Piranha departed Pearl Harbor, Hawaiʻi as part of a coordinated wolfpack known as the "Mickey Finns." Guardfish was on her eighth war patrol, Thresher was beginning her thirteenth patrol, and Piranha was on her first patrol. ww2dbase [Guardfish | Piranha | Thresher | 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 | 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 [New Orleans | St. Louis | Mariana Islands Campaign | Tinian | DS]
• Battleships USS Pennsylvania and USS Idaho with cruiser USS Honolulu conducted pre-invasion bombardments of Saipan, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Pennsylvania | Walden Ainsworth | Mariana Islands Campaign | 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 [Stewart | Rasher | Celebes Sea | CPC]

• Shokaku, Zuikaku, Taiho, Ryuho, Haguro, Myoko, Yahagi, Asagumo, Isokaze, Urakaze, Hatsuzuki, Wakazuki, Akizuki, and Shimotsuki arrived at Guimaras island, Philippines in the afteroon. ww2dbase [Shokaku | Ryuho | Myoko | Asagumo | Haguro | Yahagi | Zuikaku | Mariana Islands Campaign | Guimaras | CPC]
• USS Tunny passed through Balintang Channel, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Tunny | Balintang Channel, Luzon Strait | CPC]

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