Air Operations, CBI
BURMA- 5 10th Air Force B-25s attack two bridges near Hsipaw.
- 12 308th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s attack marshalling yards at Nanking.
- 2 B-25s attack the airfield at Hengyang.
- More than 100 14th Air Force fighter-bombers attack numerous targets in east-central China.
- During the evening, 8 11th Medium Bomb Squadron B-25s sweep the road between Hengyang and Yochow. Many motor vehicles are destroyed and a ferry crossing and bivouac area are set on fire.
- A 23rd Fighter Group’s 74th Fighter Squadron P-51 downs 2 D3A 'Val' dive bombers near Tsienshan during the early afternoon.
- 14th Air Force fighter-bombers attack targets near Haiphong and in the Red River valley.
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]Air Operations, Carolines
5th and 307th Heavy Bomb group B-24s attack targets in the Caroline Islands.
[ | ]Air Operations, East Indies
- 22 90th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s attack the Langoan airfield on Celebes.
- 37 22nd and 43rd Heavy Bomb group B-24s attack warehouses and shipping in the Lembeh Strait area.
- B-25s attack Tobelo Island.
- V Fighter Command fighter-bombers attack oil installations at Boela, Ceram.
- 1 90th Group B-24 is shot down by Japanese Army fighters.
| ]Air Operations, Europe
RAF BOMBER COMMANDDaylight Ops:
- 675 aircraft carry out heavy raids on 6 airfields in southern Holland. In the aircraft total are 348 Lancasters, 315 Halifaxes and 12 Mosquitos. All raids are successful.
- 1 Halifax is lost on the Venlo raid.
- There are 2 Mosquito Ranger patrols and 1 RCM sortie.
- There are no losses.
| ]Air Operations, New Guinea
V Fighter Command fighter-bombers attack airfields at Babo, Nabire, and Waren, troops and stores at Manokwari, and coastal targets around MacCluer Gulf and Wewak.
[ | ]Air Operations, Volcano Islands
30th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s based on Saipan attack Iwo Jima.
[ | ]Eastern Front
CENTRAL SECTORElements of the 70th Army cross the Bug River north of Warsaw.
[ | ]Italy
Canadian units cross the Conca and continue their advance.
[ | ]Occupied Holland
Prince Bernhard is appointed commander of underground forces.
[ | ]Secret War
Retreating Germans abandon hundreds of thousands of intelligence dossiers at Brussels. These are subsequently discovered and examined by British investigators and found to contain street maps of every town and village in the UK and Ireland, maps of the entire British and Irish coastlines and innumerable photographs, ranging form 1890s postcards to 1940 views of the Battersea Power Station. All these data were to have been used during Operation SEA LION.
[ | ]Wake Island
Adm William W. Smith(or Rear-Adm A. E. Smith?) leads 3 heavy cruisers and 3 destroyers to bombard the Japanese positions on the island. The light carrier Monterey (CVL-26) provides air cover.
[]Western Europe
Brussels is entered by the British Guards Arm Div. Other towns take by the 21st Army Group are Tournai and Abbeville. The US 3rd Army has advance units across the Moselle. Mons is taken by US 1st Army.
At this point the Allied front in the north runs from the mouth of the Somme in the north to Troyes in the south, following the line Lille-Brussels-Mons-Sedan-Verdun-Commercy.
In the south the French 1st Inf Div enters Lyons. Wiese has managed to withdraw most of the German 19th Army. The German 1st Army under Gen Kurt von der Chevallerie, manning the Bay of Biscay, has also withdrawn from southwest France, 130,000 German soldiers succeed in rejoining Army Group B, but 80,000 others are taken prisoner.
[ | ]Images from September 3, 1944
The Advance on Brussels |
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On the Road to Brussels |
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German POW captured in Belgium, 3 September 1944 |
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Tanks Passing German POWs |
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In Antoing, Belgium |
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Taking Brussels |
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Armored Car in Rongy |
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French Women Help British Troops to Peel Potatoes near St Pol, France, 3 September 1944 |
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US Tank Passes Destroyed German Convoy North of Montelimar, France, 3 September 1944 |
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Wounded POWs Taken to Aid Post |
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Getting Ready to Attack |
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German Panther Tank Turret |
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