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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() AtlanticIn the Normandy area the US destroyer Meredith (DD-726) is sunk by a horizontal bomber after suffering damage by a mine on the previous day. Two LSTs are sunk by torpedos from German surface craft: LST-314 and LST-376. Infantry landing craft LCI-416 is sunk by a mine and shore batteries damage the motor minesweeper YMS-305 and the US freighter Ezra Watson. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Battle of the AtlanticLiberator 'F' of No 120 Squadron sights the wake of a U-boat (U-740) about 5 miles away and it is diving. The aircraft drops six depth charges ahead of the swirl and oil was soon seen to be rising to the surface.
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Burma-IndiaAdm Mountbatten sends an instruction to Gen George Giffard, Commander of the British-Indian 11th Army Group: the area of Dimapur-Kohima-Imphal road must be cleared of the enemy by July 15, so as to go on to the liberation of the Imphal plain and the area between Yuwa and Tamanthi and then to an offensive across the Chindwin after the end of the monsoon rains. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() CBIAmerican engineers, now a provisional regiment, are joined with the Marauders to form a brigade. The engineers attack Myitkyina and advance toward the town. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Eastern FrontThe Russians start an offensive on the Finnish front. The 21st and 23rd Armies attack with air support along a 14-km-wide coastal sector or the Karelian Isthmu. 3,000 guns obliterate the Finnish advance positions, but Russian tanks make little progress by nightfall. FINNISH SECTORThe Leningrad Front begins probing attacks against the South Eastern Army. The 7th and 32nd Armies have 202,000 men for the attack, while the 21st and 23rd Armies have 189,000. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ItalyThe US 34th Div takes Tarquinia in the US VI Corps sector. In the early hours of the morning Viterbo also falls, without a shot fired, to the US 1st Arm Div. In the British 8th Army sector a new line of battle between the XIII And the X Corps is fixed along the Tiber, so that some units of the XIII Corps, the British 6th Arm Div and 4th Div, pass to the X Corps. In the XIII Corps sector the South African 6th Arm Div makes contact at Viterbo with units of the American 1st Arm Div and pushes on in the direction of Orvieto, while the British 6th Arm Div continues its advance toward Terni. The US 1st Arm Div, as well as the 85th and 88th Divs, is withdrawn from the front, while the US IV Corps takes over responsibility for the sector occupied by the US VI Corps, whose headquarters is moved to Naples, and the 36th Div of Gen Willis D. Crittenberger. The withdrawn units are to prepare for the invasion of the south of France. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Italy, PoliticsThe President of the Italian Council of Ministers, Marshal Badoglio, resigns and Ivanoe Bonomi, a premier before Mussolini assumed power, is invited to form a new government. The Cabinet now includes Count Carlo Sforza, Professor Benedetto Croce and the Communist leader, Palmiro Togliatti. [![]() ![]() New GuineaIn the area of the Hollandia-Aitape beachhead the Americans break the Japanese resistance and get back to the Tirfoam river, but they are held up there because one infantry regiment has to be taken out of the line for the landing on Numfoor Island. An Australian fighter squadron reaches Tadji airfield in the Aitape area. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pacific2 Japanese destroyers are sunk by US submarines off the Bonin Islands, the Matsukaze by the submarine Swordfish (SS-193), and in the Celebes Sea, the Tanikaze by the submarine Harder (SS-257). Although a good day of hunting, such sinkings are now unexceptional as US submarines inflict a grievous toll on Japanese merchant and military shipping. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Western FrontThe American 4th Div makes significant progress in its advance on Cherbourg. The 22nd Regt forces the 169 men defending the Azeville fortifications, 4 reinforced concrete casemates camouflaged as civilian dwelling-houses linked by covered trenches and armed with 150-mm guns and machine-guns, to surrender. A task force is then sent through the breach opened at Azeville, with Quineville as its objective. The 82nd and 101st Airborne Div mount attacks, the first on the Merderet River, the second, to the south, against Carentan. In the central sector the US V Corps, the 38th Regt of the 2nd Div, enters Trévières, where the 9th Regt, from the east, pushes on toward Rubercy. Troops on the left flank of the 1st Div reach Agy and Dodigny. The landing of the US 2nd Arm Div begins. In the British 2nd Army sector, the I Corps encounters strong resistance in the Caen area. Allied aircraft are now operating from landing grounds in France. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Images from June 9, 1944
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