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• USS Franklin launched strikes against Iwo Jima and Chichi Jima through 2 Sep 1944. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Wake Island departed Quonset Point, Rhode Island, United States. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Captain R. C. Parker was named the commanding officer of USS ABSD-1. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• British 11th Armoured Division captured Amiens, France. Meanwhile, US Third Army reached the Meuse River. ww2dbase [TH]
• Roza Shanina reached 42 confirmed kills. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Luce arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Ray arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her fifth war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• B-25 bombers of US 14th Air Force attacked Tianhe Airfield in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Two divisions of Slovakian resistance fighters were disarmed by German troops at Presov, Czechoslovakia. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• US 5th Army crossed the Arno River in northern Italy as British 8th Army attacked the Gothic Line. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]

• USS Sunfish fired a torpedo a small Japanese vessel south of Japan; the torpedo missed. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• While attacking a Japanese convoy in the South China Sea with other submarines of her wolfpack, USS Tunny was attacked by gunfire and depth charges. Tunny did not fire any torpedoes. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Soviet forces captured Bucharest, Romania. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]

• In the early morning hours between 0300 and 0630 hours, German Air Force III K/G3 launched twenty V-1 flying bombs with Gloucester, England, United Kingdom as the target. Only 8 got across and over the coast and 6 of these fell to earth in Suffolk and the other two in Essex. One of the bombs injured 7 people in Suffolk near to Harleston. One bomb brought down by a fighter near the coast impacted near Whitstable in Kent seriously injuring four people. One of the Heinkel bombers flown by Unteroffizier Lorenz Gruber crashed at Vossenberg in Belgium on the return flight, all the crew perished. This was the final operation of the of the month by the aircraft of III K/G3, they had flown 228 sorties for the loss of 3 aircraft, a better return from the previous month. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | HM]

• Franklin Roosevelt departed Washington DC, United States by train. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Croaker arrived at Midway for refitting, ending her first war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

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