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.

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.

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 Aug 28 with better results.

Patton (in left rear seat) and British General Sir Harold Alexander (in right rear seat) are pictured in Patton's Dodge WC57 command car somewhere in Sicily on August 25, 1943.

Patton and Sir Harold Alexander

Britain, Command

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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 in the South Pacific area.

(5th AF) Almost 100 B-24's, B-25's, and B-17's carry out an hour-long strike against the Hansa Bay area, Nubia Airfield, and Awar Airfield, and nearby shipping in New Guinea.

5th Air Force Attacks in New Guinea

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.

US-led Allied troops today liberated New Georgia in the Solomon Islands from Japanese forces during the New Georgia Campaign.

New Georgia Liberated