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• USS Cod departed Fremantle, Australia for her fifth war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Sennet completed her fitting out. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Cruiser USS Duluth (CL-87) was commissioned with Captain Donald Roderick Osborn, Jr. in command. ww2dbase [AC]
• US Ninth Army captured Brest, France. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• In the Netherlands, German troops launched a heavy counter attack near Arnhem while Allied troops captured Eindhoven. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• Indian troops captured Point 343 in San Marino. Brazilian troops captured Camaiore, Italy. British troops captured San Godenzo Pass, also in Italy. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Sterlet departed Midway for her second war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

• USS Escolar departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first and only war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

• Spitfire fighter pilot Flight Lieutenant D. A. J. Draper of 4 Squadron, flying a reconnaissance flight over Zoutkamp, Netherlands sighted what he thought was a Do 217 aircraft at 22,000 feet, as his aircraft was unarmed he went in to do a dummy attack and reported that the aircraft released a V-1 flying bomb before escaping. It was thought that only Heinkel bombers could carry the flying bombs but there was a certain amount of experimenting going on and Draper might well had been correct. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | HM]

• Nazi German SS doctors conducted a selection in the infirmaries of Auschwitz Concentration Camp in occupied Poland. 330 men and 65 boys, all Jews, were selected and sent to the gas chambers. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]
• A transport with 2,500 Jews arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp from the Lodz ghetto in occupied Poland; about 80% of this transport were children between 13 and 16 years of age. 150 were registered into the camp, the remaining were all killed in the gas chambers. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

• USS Ticonderoga departed San Diego, California, United States for Pearl Harbor. ww2dbase [Main Article | DS]
• USS Spot completed fitting out at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

18 Sep 1944 Interactive Map