Air Operations, Bismarcks

• V Bomber Command B-24s attack New Hanover Island.
• 3rd Light Bomb Group A-20s attack Gasmata.

Air Operations, CBI

• 8 11th Medium Bomb Squadron B-25s attack the port area at Kowloon.
• A 308th Heavy Bomb Group B-24 damaged on the previous day’s disastrous mission against the airfield at Hankow crashes on its way to Kunming from Kweilin. 10 of 12 airmen aboard are killed.

Air Operations, East Indies

V Bomber Command B-25s attack various targets on Timor.

Air Operations, Europe

• 6 Mosquitos are sent to Berlin, 42 aircraft lay mines off Brest and the Biscay ports and there are 7 OTU sorties.
• 1 OTU Wellington is lost.

• 21 387th Medium Bomb Group B-26s attack the Rouen power station with 63 1,000-pound bombs at 1832 hours.
• 31 322nd Medium Bomb Group B-26s attack the Tricqueville Airdrome at 1834 hours with 44 tons of bombs.
• 4 B-26s are damaged, 2 from each group; no crew casualties

• 75 82nd Fighter Group P-38s and 65 1st Fighter Group P-38s mount a devastating low-level strafing raid against the Foggia Airdrome comples. The raid claims 137 Axis planes destroyed or damaged on the ground. The P-38s also strafe numerous anti-aircraft emplacements, airfield buildings, and such equipment as can be seen from the air.
• 2 P-38s and their pilots are lost

• After the P-38 raid, 136 NASAF B-17s, escorted by 14th Fighter Group, drop 240 tons of bombs on four of the Foggia satellite fields. An estimated 60 Axis aircraft are damaged or destroyed on the ground in this phase of the attack.
• IX Bomber Command B-24s attack the Foggia marshalling yards.

Air Operations, New Guinea

Nearly 100 V Bomber Command B-17s, B-24s, and B-25s attack Awar, Hansa Bay, and Nubia and B-24s mount small multi-plane attacks against Finschhafen.

Air Operations, Solomons

• 6 XIII Bomber Command B-24s, escorted by 24 AirSols fighters, attack the Kahili airfield on Bougainville.
• 13 42nd Medium Bomb Group B-25s and more than 40 AirSols SBDs, escorted by AirSols fighters, attack Ringa Cove and Webster Cove.
• XIII Fighter Command P-40s attack barges in New Georgia Sound.
• VMF-215 F4Us down 4 A6M Zeros over the Kahili area at 1500 hours.

Arctic Ocean

The Soviet submarine S-101 is patrolling in the Kara Sea when her asdic operators detected a surfaced U-boat's diesels. Three torpedoes are fired from 1,000 yards with one explosion is heard. The Soviet submarine surfaces to recover evidence identifying the U-boat as U-639.

U-639

Battle of the Atlantic

• German HS-293 glider bombs are used unsuccessfully for the first time against an escort vessel, hunting U-boats in the Bay of Biscay. The device carries a 1,100-pound explosive charge, and after being dropped from an aircraft, is remotely guided to its target by an observer operating a radio-controlled joystick. Operator error continues to afflict the performance of this novel weapon, though it does have some successes. The attack is repeated on August 28 with better results.
• U-523 runs into Convoy OG-92/KMS-24 unexpectedly. The British destroyer Wanderer picks up the U-boat on radar and turns toward it. Wanderer attacks with depth charges as U-523 dives, then with Hedgehog, and final depth charge attack which did major damage. The boat surfaces but is hit by a 4-in shell on the conning tower which killed a large number of the crew.

U-523

5th Air Force Attacks in New Guinea

Britain, Command

Mountbatten is appointed Supreme Commander in Southeast Asia.

Eastern Front

The Soviets capture Zenkov and Akhtyrka to the west and northwest of Kharkov respectively.

Pacific

The US destroyer Patterson (DD-392) sinks the Japanese submarine I-178 170 miles southeast of San Cristobal Island.

Patton and Sir Harold Alexander

Solomons

The battle for New Georgia, Operation TOENAILS is over. The last Japanese resistance at Bairoko is wiped out. However, many of the Japanese have succeeded in getting away to Kolombangara or Arundel, an island between New Georgia and Kolombangara, which the Americans are preparing to occupy in part. Japanese losses in the New Georgia Campaign amount to 17 warships and 2,500 men; US losses: 6 warships and 1,000 men.

New Georgia Liberated