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• British troops attack Caumont, France, east of Saint-Lô. ww2dbase [Normandy Campaign, Phase 2 | TH]
• USS Mingo arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her fourth war patrol. ww2dbase [Mingo | CPC]
• The Japanese Navy ordered Mitsubishi to stop development of the A7M fighter design; Mitsubishi was able to secure permission to continue given that the company was to use existing engines rather than develop new ones. ww2dbase [A7M Reppu | CPC]
• Günther von Kluge wrote to Adolf Hitler, warning that the entire western front was on the brink of collapse. ww2dbase [Günther von Kluge | CPC]
• The US coastal minesweeper YMS-304 struck a mine and sank off the coast of Normandy, France. ww2dbase [AC]
• The US coastal minesweeper YMS-378 struck a mine and was severely damaged, beyond repair, off the coast of Normandy, France. ww2dbase [AC]

• Leaders of US Navy ComAirSols (Commander Air Solomons) was given a demonstration of unmanned TDR drones. Four of them took flight and each released a 2,000-pound bomb on Yamazuki Maru which was beached at Guadalcanal. 3 of the bombs hit, although 1 of the failed to detonate. ww2dbase [TDR | Guadalcanal | CPC]

• USS New Mexico shelled Japanese positions on Guam. ww2dbase [Mariana Islands Campaign and the Great Turkey Shoot | New Mexico | CPC]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of CASU-49 departed. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• The Soviet First Baltic Front reached Tukums, Latvia. ww2dbase [Operation Bagration | Tukums | CPC]
• Z35 and Z36 sailed into the Gulf of Riga to bombard Soviet positions in Latvia. ww2dbase [Z35 | Z36 | Gulf of Riga | CPC]

• In southern England, United Kingdom, the North Kent village of Swanscombe had a V-1 flying bomb explode in Taunton Road. It killed 11 and badly wounded 22 and the blast resulted in the complete destruction of 60 cottages making 160 people homeless. Flight Sergeant Gedfrey Tate of 1 Squadron was lost when his Spitfire fighter LFIXh crashed into the sea after he went into a dive chasing a V-1 flying bomb. ww2dbase [V-Weapons Campaign | Vergeltungswaffe 1 | Swanscombe, England | HM]

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