7 Aug 1944




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- USS Croaker sank Japanese light cruiser Nagara after hitting her with 1 of 4 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- USS Pompon attacked a Japanese transport off Sakhalin island; all 4 torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- USS Puffer attacked a Japanese convoy off the Philippine Islands and sank a freighter, hitting her with 1 of 4 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- USS Sea Robin was commissioned into service with Lieutenant Commander Paul Stimson in command. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- Erwin Rommel received the Wound Badge in Gold. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- A Japanese aircraft made the first aerial ramming attempt at an American bomber. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- The Indian 36th Division became the last Chindit formation to engaged in combat in Burma. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- During a strategy conference in London, England, United Kingdom, Alan Brooke determined that the next Allied target in Burma should be Rangoon, and the best method of attack would be an airborne assault. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- German troops counterattacked in Avranches, France; the offensive was code named Operation Lüttich. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH, CPC]
- Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben was tried and sentenced to death. ww2dbase [CPC]
- USS Guitarro attacked a Japanese convoy off Luzon, Philippine Islands in the South China Sea, sinking frigate Kusakaki with three of the six torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- USS Sterlet fired seven torpedoes at a Japanese convoy in the Pacific Ocean, sinking a transport with two hits. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- German prisoners of war Georg Jantschi and Karl Kosch were transferred from the Lefortovo Prison in Moscow, Russia to the special Prisoner of War Camp No. 27 in the city's suburbs. ww2dbase [CPC]
- A V-1 flying bomb blew up in Underhill Road, East Dulwich in south east London, England, United Kingdom, 4 residents were killed. Three V-1 bombs, brought down by fighters, crashed into the outskirts of Ashford, Kent, England causing damage and one death. The fighter pilots were now taking efforts to avoid their targets impacting on built up areas but the problem remained of the bombs flying erratically once hit. 316 Squadron (Polish) brought down 8 flying bombs, following on from the 9 kills made the previous day. Warrant Officer Czeslaw Bartlomiejczyk shot down four in the space of five minutes when he got behind the V-1 flying bombs flying in single file over the English Channel in his Mustang III fighter. Flight Officer Henry "Dixie" Dean flying the new RAF jet fighter, the Gloster Meteor, brought down a V-1 flying bomb over the village of Rorbertsbridge, east Sussex. 616 squadron now had a dozen of the jet fighters and 33 pilots training with them. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | HM]
- USS Portland departed Mare Island Naval Shipyard after overhaul bound for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | DS]




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