Air Operations, CBI

• 5 23rd Fighter Group P-40s attack a motor convoy between Sintsiang and Yoyang and 6 P-40s attack road and river targets between Yoyang and Hankow. 1 P-40 is lost to ground fire.

Air Operations, East Indies

V Bomber Command B-25s attack Dili and the Cape Chater airfield on Timor.

Air Operations, Europe

187 B-17 'Flying Fortresses' of the US 8th Air Force carry out their first mission over Europe, bombing Watten, France.

• 674 aircraft are sent to Nuremberg. In this total are 349 Lancasters, 221 Halifaxes and 104 Stirlings.
• After scratching two targets after the first Berlin raid, Nuremberg is selected as the target for this night. The marking for this raid is based mainly on H₂S. 47 of the Pathfinder H₂S aircraft are ordered to check their equipment by dropping a 1,000-lb bomb on Heilbron while flying to Nuremberg. 28 of the aircraft are able to carry out this order. Nuremberg is free of cloud but it is a very dark night. The initial Pathfinder markers are very accurate but a 'creepback' quickly develops which cannot be stopped because too many of the Pathfinder aircraft have trouble with their H₂S equipment. The Master Bomber can do little to persuade the Main Force to move their bombing forward as only about a fourth of the crews can hear his broadcasts. There is only slight damage in the city as German night fighters attack in great force.
• 11 Halifaxes, 11 Lancasters and 11 Stirlings are lost.

• 47 aircraft lay mines in the Frisians and off La Pallice, Lorient and St Nazaire and there are 10 OTU sorties. 1 mine-laying Wellington is lost.

• 35 386th Medium Bomb Group B-26s attack the Poix/Nord Airdrome with more than 54 tons of bombs at -826 hours. This attack is unopposed.
• 322nd Medium Bomb Group aborts its attack on a power station at Rouen because of heavy cloud cover.
• 1 B-26 is lost, 6 damaged; 2 crewmen are wounded, 6 missing
• In support of Operation CROSSBOW, the RAF bombing campaign against German V-weapons facilities and factories, 187 1st and 4th Heavy Bomb Wings B-17s, of 224 dispatched, attack V-1 launching sites around Watten with 368 2000-pound bombs between 1846 and 1941 hours.
• 4 B-17s are lost, 98 are damaged, 1 escorting P-47 is lost; 1 crewmen is killed, 18 wounded, 32 missing

• 36 unescorted 310th Medium Bomb Group B-25s dispatched against a marshalling yard at Benevento, northeast of Naples, are met over the shoreline by an estimated 50 Axis fighters, which make repeated attacks on the bomber formations all the way through the flight to the target and early in the withdrawal phase. All the B-25s attack the target. Three main rail lines running through Benevento are severed.
• 3 B-25s are lost
• NASAF B-17s attack a marshalling yard at Sulmona.
• NASAF medium bombers attack a marshalling yard at Caserta.
• NATAF aircraft attack a large number of transportation targets and gun emplacements throughout southern Italy.

Air Operations, New Guinea

• 22nd Medium Bomb Group B-26s attack bridges around Bogadjim.
• 3rd Light Bomb Group A-20s attack Japanese barges and troops in the Lae area.

Air Operations, Solomons

• 12 Airsols B-25s, 8 P-39s, and 8 F4Us attack barges and shore installations at Kakasa. P-39s also attack barges and shore installations at Ringa Cove.
• During the evening of August 27 and through the night, 394th Heavy Bomb Squadron SB-24s flying at altitudes between 1,000 and 1,500 feet undertake their first radar-guided antishipping sweep over sea lanes in the northern Solomon Islands.

Atlantic

In a German glider bomb attack 30 miles west of Vigo in the Bay of Biscay, the British sloop Egret is sunk and the Canadian destroyer Athabaskan is badly damaged. 194 men are lost on the Egret. Athabaskan picks up 35 survivors.

Battle of the Atlantic

Aircraft (VC-1) from the US escort carrier Card (CVE-11) sinks the German submarine U-847 in the mid-Atlantic area.

U-847

Diplomatic Relations

The French Committee of National Liberation is recognized by the USSR and Nationalist China.

Eastern Front

In the continuing Soviet offensives, Kotleva, 60 miles west of Kharkov, is captured by Vatutin's troops and Sevsk by Rokossovsky's Central Front.

Sevsk falls to the 65th Army, but the early commitment of the 2nd Tank Army goes disastrously wrong as the armor becomes bogged down in costly fighting with dug-in German anti-tank units.

Kotelva falls to the 27th Army as the Voronezh Front pushes west from Kharkov. Near the Mius River the 51st and 5th Shock Armies break through the positions of the IV and XVII Corps.

Hitler flies east to his command center at Vinnitsa where he meets with Manstein and his commanders. Manstein calls for a policy of flexible defense, leading to the abandonment of territory east of the Dniepr but Hitler will not hear of this, maintaining there where the German soldier stands he remains.

Italy, Politics

Mussolini is moved from Maddalena Island, off Sardinia, to the Gran Sasso d'Italia in the Abruzzi.

New Georgia

The 172nd Infantry Regiment of the 43rd Infantry Division lands on Arundel Island, followed by the 169th Infantry Regiment from the 43rd and two battalions of the 27th Infantry Regiment of the 25th Infantry Division.

Pacific

• The US submarine Grayling (SS-209) sinks the Japanese army cargo ship Meizan Maru (5480t).
• The US submarine Pollock (SS-180) sinks the Japanese cargo ship Taifuku Maru (3520t).

Solomons

The 172nd Infantry (less the 3rd Battalion), 43rd Division, lands on the southeast coast of Arundel at the southern tip of the Nauro Peninsula without opposition. While Company A holds the beachhead, the rest of the force drives northward to the base of the peninsula.