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.

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.

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 | ]

Italy, Politics

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Solomons

US forces land on the Nauro peninsula in the southeast part of Arundel and occupies the whole peninsula without opposition. Troops of 43rd Div occupy the Nauro Peninsula in the southeast of the island without a fight.