Air Operations, Europe

RAF BOMBER COMMAND
Daylight Ops:

• 213 Lancasters and 10 Mosquitos of Nos. 1, 3 and 8 Groups attack a flying bomb storage dump at Nucort, but the target is covered in cloud and the bombing is scattered.
• There are no losses.
• 6 Mosquitos carry out Ranger patrols without a loss. 1 Ju-88 is claimed to be destroyed near Oldenburg.

• 35 Mosquitos are sent to Berlin, 8 Halifaxes and 6 Lancasters lay mines in the Kattegat and in the Frisians, 13 Halifaxes and 9 Stirlings are on Resistance operations, and there are 4 OTU sorties.
• 1 Mosquito is lost on the Berlin raid.

Burma-China-India

On the Salween front the Chinese persevere with their costly eforts to dislodge the Japanese from Sung Shan.

On the Assam front, in India, the British XXXIII Corps has succeeded in driving the Japanese out of the immediate vicinity of the road junction at Ukhrul

Eastern Front

Model, commanding Army Group Center, asks for Army Group North to be moved south behind the Dvina to bolster his front and to prevent them being cut off by the Russian drive to the Baltic. As usual, Hitler refuses to allow this sensible step. In a great Russian offensive into the Baltic States, the 2nd Belorussian Front attacks northwest of Vitebsk.

A week later the 3rd Belorussian Front will attack near Pskov and the Leningrad Front will attack at Narva 9 days after that. Army Group Center has lost almost the whole of the 9th and 4th Armies. The 3rd Belorussian Front, under Gen Ivan Chernyakhovsky, surrounds Vilna in Lithuania. In the middle of Model's sector Slonim is taken.

Soviet forces reach the Suvilahti and Lormada Rivers, taking Pitkjuaranta.

The German 16th Army is assaulted by the 3rd Shock and 10th Guards Armies, while to the south the 2nd Guards and 4th Shock Armies advance to link up with the 6th Guards Army at Daugavpils. Hitler forbids any retreat of Army Group North to the Dvina.

The 2nd Baltic Front attacks the southern wing of the 16th Army with its 10th Guards and 3rd Shock Armies. The 2nd Guards and 4th Shock Armies launch new attacks aimed at meeting up with the 6th Guards Army at Daugavpils. With Army Group North now also threatened, Field Marshal Model requests that Friessner be allowed to withdraw behind the line of the Dvina, shortening his line and creating a reserve that can be committed to reinforce the shattered armies of Army Group Center. Hitler categorically refuses.

Utena falls to the 43rd Army and Slonim to the 65th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front.

Italy

In the Tyrrhenian sector the divisions of the American IV Corps make negligible progress northwards toward Leghorn.

New Guinea

In the Aitape sector a series of Japanese attacks starts along the line of the Driniumor River inflicting heavy casualties on the US 128th Regt.

United States, Policy

After visiting China, Vice President Henry Wallace writes scathing report very critical of Chiang Kai-shek. Among other things, he proposes Roosevelt assign someone to mediate differences between the Chinese Nationalists and Communists.

Western Front

Gen Montgomery, Commander-in-Chief of the 21st Army Group, issues directives for Operation COBRA, the American 1st Army's offensive to penetrate the defenses of the Germans west of St ô and take Coutances.

In the VIII Corps sector the American troops advanced south of La Haye-du-Puits. The 3 divisions of the VII Corps, the 4th, 9th and 83rd, continue their offensive from the west.

The British VIII Corps opens an offensive southwest of Caen in the area between the Odon and Orne Rivers. The 43rd Div captures Eterville and Height 112 on the road to Evrecy. In the Caen sector the Canadian II Corps under Gen Simonds, grouped with British II Army, goes into action.

Images from July 10, 1944

Sherman tanks of the Sherbrooke Fusiliers advancing into Caen. 10 July 1944. (Photo : Harold G. Aikman / Library and Archives Canada / PA-162667)

Sherman Tanks of the Sherbrooke Fusiliers

A Sherman tank crew from 27th Armoured Brigade with a German swastika flag they captured during the attack on Caen, Normandy, 10 July 1944.

A Sherman Tank Crew from 27th Armoured Brigade

Infantrymen of The Highland Light Infantry of Canada having a rest, Caen, France, 10 July 1944.

Highland Light Infantry of Canada

British Sherman tanks and a 6-pdr anti-tank gun in the centre of Caen, Normandy, 10 July 1944.

British Sherman Tanks and a 6-pdr Anti-tank Gun

A British Soldier Carries a Little Girl through the Devastation of Caen, 10 July 1944

Infantry Men with a Bren Gun Looking Out for Snipers on a Street Corner, Caen, 10 July 1944

Canadian troops of the 3rd Infantry Division entering Caen, Normandy, after heavy bombing by Allied aircrafts and artillery, 10 July 1944.

Canadian Troops of the 3rd Infantry Division

A Cheerful Group of Soldiers from 3rd Division Pose for a Photograph in Caen, 10 July 1944

Royal Engineers Move through the Ruins of Caen, Looking for Mines and Booby-traps, 10 July 1944

Infantrymen of the 43rd (Wessex) Division seek shelter from German mortar attacks, 10 July 1944, during the Operation Jupiter, the Battle for Hill 112.

Infantrymen of the 43rd (Wessex) Division

Canadian Soldiers Celebrating the Liberation of Caen, 10 July 1944

Unidentified sappers of the Royal Canadian Engineers (R.C.E.) examining an unexploded German 15.5 cm. shell, Caen, France, 10 July 1944.

Unidentified Sappers Examining Unexploded Shell

Canadian Soldiers Fire into a Battered House in Caen, 10 July 1944

Troops of 1 Kings Own Scottish Borderers (KOSB), 9th Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, firing a captured Hotchkiss machine gun during street fighting in Caen, 10 July 1944.

Troops of 1 Kings Own Scottish Borderers

British Army infantryman in Caen armed with a German Schmeisser MP40, which must have been captured soon after D-Day encountering German forces, 10 July 1944

British Army Infantryman in Caen

Canadian Infantrymen of the Regina Rifle Regiment (today known as the Royal Regina Rifles) rest inside a heavily damaged building during the Battle for Caen, 10 July 1944. (Photo - Lt. Ken Bell)

Canadian Infantrymen of the Regina Rifle Regiment