Air Operations, Carolines

VII Bomber Command B-24s attack the Truk Atoll.

Air Operations, CBI

• 23 10th Air Force B-25s attack Tamu.
• 1 B-25 attacks targets near Mohnyin.
• 19 10th Air Force fighter-bombers attack Myitkyina and a bridge at Myitnge.
• 16 7th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s airlift fuel to Kamaing.

• 3 308th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s attack port facilities at Takao, Formosa.
• More than 60 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s and 14th Air Force fighter-bombers attack numerous targets in the Tungting Lake region.
• A 76th Fighter Squadron P-51 and a 74th Fighter Squadron P-40 each down a Ki-43 'Oscar' fighter near Hengyang during an afternoon engagement.

• 14th Air Force P-40s attack rail traffic and a bridge at Phu Lang Thuong.

• 45 10th Air Force B-25s airlift ammunition to Imphal.

Air Operations, Europe

• 286 Lancasters and 19 Mosquitos of Nos. 1, 5 and 8 Groups attack 2 flying bomb launching sites and a store. There is partial clouds over all the target with the bombing being both accurate and scattered.
• 3 Lancasters and 2 Mosquitos are lost including the aircraft of the Master Bomber on the Siracourt site raid. This was Flight-Lt S. E. C. Clarke of No. 7 Squadron, but he survived.
• 2 Mosquitos make Ranger patrols and 1 shoots up an E-boat on the return flight to England.
• There are no losses.

• 14 Mosquitos make flying bomb patrols, 8 Stirlings lay mines off the Biscay coast, 16 aircraft are on Resistance operations and 2 Fortresses make RCM sorties. 1 Mosquito shoots down a flying bomb which may be the first success of No. 100 group against flying bombs.
• There are no aircraft losses.

Air Operations, Marianas

• 318th Fighter Group P-47s bomb and strafe Japanese Army positions on Saipan.
• 2 VF-51 F6Fs down a G4M 'Betty' bomber at sea at 0600 hours.
• A 6th Night Fighter Squadron P-61 downs a G4M 'Betty' near Saipan at about 2230 hours.

Air Operations, New Guinea

• 5th Air Force bombers and fighter-bombers attack Japanese Army troop concentrations at Aitape, barges at Noemfoor Island, occupied villages in the Maffin Bay area, targets of opportunity in the Wewak area, and airfields and antiaircraft emplacements at Babo, Monokwari, Moemi, and Waren.
• V Bomber Command B-24s assigned to attack Noemfoor Island are grounded by bad weather over the Nadzab-area bases.

Eastern Front

(30th?)Rokossovsky's 1st Belorussian Front takes Bobryusk, the last German stronghold on the Fatherland Line, opening up the way to Warsaw. To the west they also capture Slutsk and Lyuban and a little to the north they are across the Berezina. Near Polotsk Bagramyan's men seize Usachi.

Barely a week after the Soviet offensive began, Army Group Center has lost 130,000 killed and 60,000 captured and the bulk of its 900 panzers and assault guns destroyed.

On the northern flank the IX Corps of the 3rd Panzer Army loses Usachi to the 1st Baltic Front while the 4th Army retreats across the Drut. Heavy fighting also rages at Rudnya as the Soviet infantry forces reach the Berezina, and fierce battles rage at Studenka.

To the south the German 9th Army tries to break out from Bobruisk but is repulsed. The XXXV Corps practically ceases to exist while the XLI, also encircled following its march east to relieve the XXXV, is under heavy fire. In intense fighting the Germans push 20 miles north of the town but suffer heavy losses. Rokossovsky continues to drive his forward units toward Minsk, Group Pliev taking Slutsk.

Italy

In the western sector of the front units of the US 34th Div are heavily engaged by the 16th Panzergrenadiere SS not far from Cecina. To the east, on the British 8th Army front, von Vietinghoff's German 10th Army is in general retreat. The South African 6th Arm Div reaches Acquaviva and Montepulciano, and the 78th Div Castiglion del Lago.

Mariana Islands

On Saipan the 106th Regt, 27th Inf Div, advances about three-quarters of a mile in Death Valley.

New Guinea

American mopping up continues on Biak. The Japanese shell the American positions from the eastern caves, which in turn are shelled by tanks and mortars. The Australian forces advancing from Wewak reach the Sepik River, 70 miles to the west.

Pacific

The Japanese minelayer Tsugaru is sunk by the US submarine Darter (SS-227) in the Netherlands East Indies area.

Western Front

The last of the German strongpoints in the Cherbourg harbor area surrenders. The VIII Corps sends the 101st Airborne Div to Cherbourg.

British forces expand their Odon River bridgehead but break off the offensive in view of German concentrations of armor.

Images from June 29, 1944

Half-track and troops of 8th Battalion, The Rifle Brigade, 11th Armored Division, during Operation 'Epsom', Normandy, 29 June 1944

Men of the 11th Armored Division

Infantry of 8 Rifle Brigade (Motor), 11th Armoured Divsion, move forward cautiously near Eterville, Normandy, 29 June 1944.

Moving Forward Cautiously

Allied troops in the ruins of Valognes during the drive against Cherbourg, which fell on June 29, 1944

In the Ruins of Valognes

Sherman dozer tank and Crusader AA Mk III of 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry during Operation 'Epsom', 29 June 1944

2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry

Loading Katyusha. The 1st Ukrainian Front, 29 June 1944. (Photo: A.Shaykhet)

#42-95035, Call Me Later, after she crashed at Wendling with wounded aboard after the mission to Magdeburg.

Crash Landing at Wendling

German Prisoners Cross the Place Napoleon Cherbourg, 28-30 June 1944

Tucker Bridge Showing Under Pinning and Piers of Double Bailey Bridge in the Rear, 29 June 1944

Japanese Scarecrow, Saipan, 29 June 1944 - Advancing Marine units on Saipan found many dummy positions left by the enemy similar to this wooden searchlight platform with a scarecrow manning it.

Dummy Positions of the Japanese

St Matthew's Church, Wimbledon, Church of England in the Diocese of Southwark - At 8.30pm on 29 June 1944 the church was totally destroyed by a flying bomb.

St Matthew's Church, Wimbledon

B-29-1-MO Superfortress s/n 42-6229 of the 468th Bomb Group, 793rd Bomb Squadron, air base in India, June 1944

B-29-1-MO Superfortress

P-38 Lightnings from the 20th Fighter Group in Formation over France, 29 June 1944