Air Operations, Europe
233 B-24s raid Toulon. 7 U-boats are damaged.
RAF BOMBER COMMANDEvening Ops:
- 542 aircraft including 321 Lancasters, 201 Halifaxes and 20 Mosquitos of Nos. 3, 4, 6 and 8 Groups attack 2 flying bomb launching sites and 2 storage sites. The night is clear with a bright moon and all targets are hit.
- 5 Lancasters are lost.
- 154 Lancasters of No. 1 Group attack the main railway area at Dijon which is heavily bombed.
- There are no losses.
- 35 Mosquitos are sent to the Scholven/Buer facility and 10 to Düren, 6 Halifaxes lay mines off Brest and St Nazaire, 29 aircraft are on Resistance operations, and there are 50 Mosquito patrols and 9 RCM and 3 OTU sorties.
- 3 Mosquitos are lost, 1 on Scholven/Buer raid, 1 on an RCM and 1 on a Serrate sortie.
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]Battle of the Atlantic
- Neger-type U-boats begin operations off Normandy. In 3 nights of operations they sink 4 light warships and cripple the cruiser Dragon but at a heavy cost.
- German one-man Biber (Beaver) submarines attack Allied ships off Normandy. Also with raids on the 8th, the 29-foot-long craft sink 3 minesweepers and damage the Polish cruiser Dragon. 7 of the mini-subs are sunk.
- The German submarine U-233 is sunk by the US destroyer escorts Thomas (DE-102) and Baker (DE-190) in the North Atlantic area.
- The German submarine U-586 is sunk off Toulon, France by US Army aircraft.
| ]Burma-China
On the Salween front the Chinese 8th Army attacks Sung Shan from east and south but such ground as they are able to take is recaptured by the Japanese in a powerful counterattack.
[ | ]Eastern Front
CENTRAL SECTORThe XXVII breaks up and attempts to break out in small pockets but many of its men are ambushed and killed. Thousands die in bloody battles in the forests of Belorussia.
[ | ]Italy
The battle for Rosignano continues. The Americans of the 34th Div make very slow progress against the tenacious German resistance.
The resistance of von Vietinghoff's German 10th Army stiffens in the area in which the British XIII Corps is advancing which is south of Arezzo after making rapid advances to Tuoro and Umbertide.
[ | ]Mariana Islands
On Saipan the Americans begin the last stage of the capture of the south of the island. The 4th Marine Div makes headway, but the 105th Regt of the 27th Inf Div, is held up by the enemy, dug in on the north side of a ravine called Harakiri Gulch.
[ | ]New Guinea
The Japanese garrison on Numfoor tries a counterattack with about 400 troops but they are annihilated. The US forces are preparing to move against the island's third airfield at Namber.
[ | ]Western Front
Heavy fighting continues over the whole Normandy front. The US VIII Corps take the La Haye-du-Puits railway station. The US VII Corps continues its slow advance to the south toward Pèriers, on the road leading from St Lô to Lessay on the west coast of the Cotentin peninsula.
[ | ]Images from July 5, 1944
A Jeep and a CMP Truck Being Washed in a Stream, 5 July 1944 |
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Carriers and Transport of 179th Field Regiment |
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Returning from the Front Lines, Saipan, 5 July 1944 |
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Col Francis Gabreski in His P-47D 'Thunderbolt' |
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US Secretary of War at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, 5 July 1944 |
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Soviet Tanks Entering Minsk in early July 1944 |
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29th Infantry Division Fighting near Saint-Jores, Normandy, 5 July 1944 |
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