Air Operations, Carolines

• 30th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s based at Saipan attack the Yap Atoll.
• During the night, 868th Heavy Bomb Squadron SB-24s attack Japanese airfields and defenses in the Palau Islands.

Air Operations, CBI

• 9 10th Air Force B-25s attack Hopin.
• 28 10th Air Force P-47s attack artillery positions, troops, dumps, and buildings at Ingyingon, Nansankyin, and Pinlon.
• 2 P-51s attack buildings at Aledaw with aerial rockets.

• 11 14th Air Force P-51s and P-40s attack bridges and road traffic around Loiwing, Mangshih, Pangpying, and Tingka.
• 6 fighter-bombers attack an airstrip and other targets on an island near Foochow.
• 10th Air Force P-51s mount 53 effective sorties in support of Chinese Army ground troops at Tengchung.
• A P-40 with the 3rd CACW Fighter Group’s 8th CACW Fighter Squadron downs a Ki-43 'Oscar' fighter near Kakow at 1135 hours.

Air Operations, East Indies

V Bomber Command B-24s attack the Galela area and Saumlakki.

Air Operations, Europe

The entire 8th Air Force is again grounded by bad weather.

• 9th Air Force fighter-bombers provide support for US Army ground forces and strafe many transportation and tactical targets.
• IX XIX TAC fighter pilots down 27 Luftwaffe fighters over France between 1230 and 1940 hours.

• XII TAC A-20s attack several industrial targets.
• XII TAC fighters and fighter-bombers attack motor vehicles.

• 12th Air Force B-26s attack bridges in the Po River valley.

• 15th Air Force B-24s attack oil-industry targets around Vienna, including an run against the Lobau underground oil-storage facility by 39 484th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s.

• 15th Air Force B-24s attack oil-industry targets at Blechhammer, and B-17s attack oil-industry targets at Odertal.

Air Operations, New Guinea

V Fighter Command fighter-bombers attack Manokwari and numerous coastal targets.

Arctic

• Adm Sir Henry Moore leads 3 fleet carriers and 2 escort carriers of the British Home Fleet to attack the battleship Tirpitz in Kaafiord. The battleship Duke of York is in support. The attack is detected on the way in and loses heavily to the German barrage and to the defending fighters. No hits are achieved because of the smoke defenses. The attacks are repeated without result on August 24 and 29.

• U-354 is searching for Convoy JW-59 when she attacks the escorts. She sinks the British frigate Bickerton and badly damages the escort carrier Nabob. The frigate Mermaid makes a total of 3 depth-charge attacks on the U-boat the third of which brings oil to the surface.

U-354 Class Type VIIC CO Kapitänleutnant Hans-Jurgen Sthamer Location Arctic, N of Murmansk Cause Depth charge Casualties 51 Survivors None

U-344 Class Type VIIC CO Kapitänleutnant Ulrich Pietsch Location Arctic, NW of Bear Isdland Cause Air attack Casualties 50 Survivors None

• Swordfish 'C' of 825 NAS is flying a routine A/S patrol when a U-boat is sighted on the surface. She launches 3 Mk XII Torpex-filled depth charges from a height of 50 feet. All 3 cause damage to U-344 with the third causing a tremendous explosion sinking the U-boat.

Atlantic

The British escort carrier Nabob is torpedoed by U-354 off northern Norway. Her Avenger planes take off from a sloping deck and prevent U-354 from delivering the coup de grâce. The Nabob is towed to safety.

Barents Sea

U-354 severely damages the British frigate Bickerton resulting in the loss of 38 of her crew. After the survivors are rescued, she is scuttled by the British destroyer Vigilant.

Battle of the Atlantic

• U-480 sinks the British minesweeper Loyalty southeast of the Isle of Wight with the loss of 20 of her crew. Survivors are picked up by 2 landing ships.
• U-180 is destroyed when the U-boat hits a mine west of Bordeaux.

U-180

Burma-China

On the Salween front, Japanese counterattacks around the town of Sung Shan have no success.

Eastern Front

Jassy (Iasi) is taken by Malinovsky's troops of the the 2nd Ukraine Front. The 3rd Ukraine Front is extending its attacks northward toward Kishinev and has advanced up to 50 miles in the past two days.

The 6th Tank Army pushes down from the north, behind the main units of the 6th Army to the east, toward Vaslui and Husi. With the complete collapse of the Rumanian armies, Friessner cuts the Rumanians out of the command chain, allocating Meith's IV and the XXIX Corps to the 6th Army. Fierce battles rage south of Jassy as the IV Corps falls back to the southeast toward the Prut. Kastuleni and Ungeny fall to 52nd and 4th Guards Armies as they drive along either bak of the river. To the east, elements of the XXIX Corps are involved in heavy fighting at Romanovo as the 46th Army plunges deep into the German rear. The XXIX is now in full retreat toward the Prut. While the corps retreats, other elements of the 46th Army reach the Black Sea coast and isolate the 9th Infantry Division.

The Rumanians depose Marshal Antonescu and place him under arrest. The new government immediately issues orders for all Rumanian units in the field to cease firing upon Russian forces and surrender or go home.

Italy

The Polish II Corps reaches and occupies the south bank of the Metauro River from Sant' Ippolito to the Adriatic coast south of Fano.

Japan, Home Front

The government introduces measures to conscript all women between the ages of 12 and 40 to do war work.

Northern France

While the bridgehead established by the 79th Div of XV Corps at Mantes-Gassicourt stands up to counterattacks by the Germans, the XX Corps advances rapidly toward Melun and Montereau and its 5th Div threatens Fontainebleau. The 4th Arm Div, after taking Sens, pushes on toward Villeneuve. Orders are issued for the attack to take Paris.

Occupied France

The FFI now control all public buildings in Paris.

Pacific

• Japan loses 3 frigates to US torpedoes in the area around the Philippines. The Sado is sunk by the US submarine Haddo (SS-255) and the Matsuwa and the Hiburi are sunk by the US submarine Harder (SS-257).
• The US submarine Pintado (SS-387) attacks a Japanese convoy about 200 miles southeast of Shanghai and sinks the merchant tanker No.2 Tonan Maru (19,262t).
• The US submarine Spadefish (SS-411) attacks a Japanese convoy in Luzon Strait and damages the tanker No.2 Hakko Maru (10,023t).
• The US submarine Tang (SS-306) sinks the Japanese army cargo ship No2. Nansatsu Maru off Mikizaki.
• The British submarine Statesman sinks the Japanese army cargo ship No.5 Sugi Maru (1983t) off Port Blair.

Rumania, Politics

In response to impending military disaster, the Romanians depose Antonescu and place him under arrest. Orders are issued to Romanian units to stop fighting, surrender to the Russians or disband and go home (in fact, many Romanians have deserted en masse to the Red Army).

Southern France

The 36th Div of VI Corps reaches and takes Grenoble without meeting any resistance. To the west, in the Toulon and Marseilles sectors, the 3rd Algerian Div and 1st Arm Div of the French II Corps continue to advance along the coast against strong German resistance.

Images from August 22, 1944

Tea Is Served to German Prisoners

French People Celebrate Their Liberation

German POWs in Hyeres, France

Resistance Fighter in Warsaw

Cheering US Soldiers in Aix-en-Provence

Seine Bridgehead, 22 August 1944

French Civilians Pass Knocked-out Tank

Pouring a Cup of Tea

Examining a German Rocket Launcher

HMS Nabob After She Was Torpedoed

HMS Bickerton Got the Second Torpedo

M-18 tank destroyers