Air Operations, EuropeUS bombers conduct a daylight raid on the occupied French port of Cherbourg. BOMBER COMMAND
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Allied PlanningHarry Hopkins and Gen Marshall, Roosevelt's two envoys, return to Washington from London with the British approval of the BOLERO plan. The plan calls for the opening of a second front in Europe, but the details have yet to be worked out. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Battle of the AtlanticThe unarmed US freighter Robin Hood (6887t), en route to Boston from Trinidad, BWI, is torpedoed and sunk by U-575 about 300 miles off Nantucket with the loss of 14 crewmen. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() BurmaFollowing their breakthrough on the 13th the Japanese continue to drive northward, isolating one of Slim's divisions, the Burmese 1st Division. British forces continue the destruction of the oilfields at Yenangyaung as Gen Slim begins to withdraw northward. The Chinese 38th Division fights well in covering the British retreat. With his flank exposed, Stilwell orders the Chinese to hold. One entire Chinese division deserts and disppears into the hills of Burma. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Eastern FrontCENTRAL SECTORThe Germans launch a series of furious attacks against Soviet partisans and paratroopers trapped in the Dorogobuzh area. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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