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• Cruiser Köln conducted convoy operation between Norway and Denmark over the following two months. ww2dbase [Köln | CPC]
• U-530 was assigned to the 33. Unterseebootflottille (33th Submarine Flotilla). ww2dbase [U-530 | CPC]
• Oberstleutnant Wilhelm Antrup stepped down as the commanding officer of the German Kampfgeschwader 55 wing. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Joseph Stilwell's diary entry for this date noted that he felt he was about to be ousted by Franklin Roosevelt. ww2dbase [Joseph Stilwell | CPC]
• Finnish troops attacked German troops in Tornio, Finland. ww2dbase [TH]
• USS Trepang attacked a Japanese convoy, sinking freighter Takunan Maru. ww2dbase [Trepang | CPC]

• USS Portland arrived at Seeadler Harbor, Manus Island, Admiralty Islands for 10 days of recreation, upkeep, and replenishment of fuel and stores. ww2dbase [Portland | Manus, Admiralty Islands | DS]

• Eight TDR drones were launched against positions on Ballale and Poporang Islands south of Bougainville in the Solomon Islands with mixed results. ww2dbase [TDR | Bougainville | DS]

• The US coastal minesweeper YMS-385 was mined and sunk in the Zowariau Channel, Ulithi, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Ulithi | AC]
• USS Alabama arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Alabama | Ulithi | CPC]

• B-25 bombers of US 14th Air Force attacked Tianhe Airfield in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. ww2dbase [Tianhe Airfield | Guangzhou, Guangdong | CPC]
• Emperor Showa's personal representative arrived in Lushun, puppet nation of Manchukuo (Liaoning Province, China) to perform a blessing ceremony for the newly opened grand Shinto shrine. ww2dbase [Lushun, Liaoning | CPC]

• The Slovakian resistance fighters named themselves the Czechoslovakian 1st Army in Slovakia. ww2dbase [Slovak National Uprising | CPC]

• The German garrison at Calais, France capitulated. The 3rd Canadian Division had suffered just 300 casualties in the siege of the town but had captured 7,500 Germans bringing their toll of prisoners taken in clearing the Channel ports to almost 30,000. Wreckage to the dock facilities were however extensive and the port would not be available for shipping until Nov 1944. ww2dbase [Normandy Campaign, Phase 2 | Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais | AC]

• Karl von Le Suire was awarded the Kuban Shield medal. ww2dbase [Karl von Le Suire | CPC]

• After a 4-day fight, the US 5th Army captured Monte Battaglia, Italy, a part of the Gothic Line defenses. ww2dbase [Gothic Line Offensive | Battaglia | TH]

• Most of the crew of Shinano boarded the carrier at Yokosuka, Japan by this date. ww2dbase [Shinano | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]

• The German-occupied island of Jersey was declared a Fortress. ww2dbase [CPC]

• USS Cabrilla attacked a Japanese convoy in the South China Sea, sinking two transports with 4 of 10 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Cabrilla | South China Sea | CPC]
• 60 miles west of Palau, US Navy PBM-3D Mariner from Patrol-Bombing Squadron VPB-16 flown by Lt Floyd Wardlow launched a Mark 24 FIDO acoustic homing torpedo on the diving Japanese submarine I-177. The submarine was damaged severely and was sunk 2 days later in a Hedgehog attack from destroyer escort USS Samuel S. Miles. ww2dbase [PBM Mariner | Mark XXIV | DS]

• General Tadeusz Komorowski sent a message to the Polish military leadership in London, England, United Kingdom noting that he had made the decision to lay down arms as his resistance fighters were running out of supplies to continue the fighting. ww2dbase [Warsaw Uprising | Warsaw | CPC]

• Unbeknownst to the Germans, a Hungarian delegation arrived in Moscow, Russia to discuss an armistice with the Soviet Union. ww2dbase [Budapest Strategic Offensive Operation | Moscow | TH]

• Operation Frantic 8, a USAAF air mission to supply Polish resistance fighters in Warsaw, Poland scheduled for this date, was postponed to 2 Oct 1944 due to weather. ww2dbase [Warsaw Uprising | Operation Frantic | England | CPC]

• Submarine Capitaine was launched at Groton, Connecticut, United States, sponsored by Mrs. J. A. Rondomanski. ww2dbase [Capitaine | Electric Boat Company | Groton, Connecticut | CPC]

• Red Army units crossed the Danube River into Yugoslavia. ww2dbase [Belgrade Strategic Offensive Operation | TH]

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