Air Operations, Carolines

• USN carrier aircraft and surface warships from Task Group 38.1, Task Group 38.2, and Task Group 38.3 continue to bombard targets in the Palau Islands.
• During the night, 868th Heavy Bomb Squadron SB-24s now based on Noemfoor Island attack airfields and Japanese defenses in the Palau Islands.

Air Operations, CBI

• 5 308th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s attack shipping near Hong Kong.
• 24 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s attack targets in and around Kiyang, Lingling, and Yoyang.
• 11 B-25s attack the Tienho and White Cloud airfields at Canton.
• 2 B-25s attack the ferry at Siangtan.
• More than 100 14th Air Force fighter-bombers attack numerous targets across large parts of southeastern and east-central China.
• 22 7th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s transport fuel from India to Kunming.

• 4 449th Fighter Squadron P-38s attack targets of opportunity between Hanoi and the lower Red River valley.

Air Operations, East Indies

• 53 V Bomber Command B-24s attack Menado, Celebes.
• XIII Bomber Commands B-24s attack the Galela airfield on Halmahera.
• FEAF B-25s attack Wasile Bay in the Molucca Islands.
• V Bomber Command A-20s attack the Boela airfield on Ceram.
• V Fighter Command P-38 dive-bombers attack the airfield on Djailolo.

Air Operations, Europe

• 41 Mosquitos are sent to Karlsruhe, 12 to Steenwijk and 6 to Emden, and 16 Stirlings are on Resistance operations.
• There are no losses.

Air Operations, Japan

6 28th Composite Bomb Group B-25s attack fishing boats in the Kurile Islands.

Air Operations, New Guinea

• V Bomber Command A-20s attack the airfield at Mongosah.
• V Fighter Command fighter-bombers attack the airfields at Manokwari and Wewak and occupied villages in the Schouten Islands.
• A 421st Night Fighter Squadron P-61 crew downs a Ki-21 'Sally' bomber near Japen Island at 0320 hours.
• During the night, 2 Japanese bombers attack the Owi airfield. 1 man is wounded and 5 parked aircraft are damaged.

Burma-China

On the Salween front the Chinese 8th Army completes the mopping up of the Sung Shan zone. The battle for the capture of this important staging point on the Burma Road has cost the Chinese 7,675 dead. The Japanese garrison of 2,000 odd has been wiped out.

Diplomatic Relations

(when?)Bulgaria declares war on Germany, as occupation by part of the 3rd Ukraine Front continues.

Eastern Front

The Russians have penetrated into the eastern Carpathians, almost up the the Hungarian border. Hungary and Rumania begin fighting each other for control of Transylvania.

The Home Army is facing a desperate situation. Low on food and ammunition, the Poles have begun surrender talks, which so far have come to nothing.The Polish Home Army begins to negotiate surrender terms with the Germans.

The Soviet 38th Army and the 4th Ukrainian Front (combined total of 363,000 troops) begin operations to break through the Dukla Pass. The defending 1st Panzer Army resists stubbornly.

The Soviert 37th and 57th Armies occupy Bulgaria, which undergoes a pro-Soviet coup and promptly declares war on Germany.

France, Politics

The first elements of the French provisional government arrives in Paris to begin administrating the country.

Italy

During the night the Germans withdraw from their positions on the hills north and northeast of Florence.

Western Front

In Belgium the British 2nd Army and American 1st Army units cross the Albert Canal east of Antwerp and take Ypres. The 113th Cavalry Group of the US XIX Corps crosses the canal near Hasselt. Dieppe is opened to Allied shipping. Other American formations from 1st Army, the 3rd Arm Div, have nearly reache Liège. The American VI Corps enters Besançon. The US 3rd Army secures 2 bridgeheads over the Moselle River.

Images from September 7, 1944

British Troops Enjoy a Drink at a Cafe in Brussels, 7 September 1944

A member of the French Forces of the Interior (FFI) uses a truck for cover during gun battles with German snipers in Dreux. During this period several French towns were liberated by the FFI in advance of Allied forces

Battling Snipers in Dreux

Formal group portrait of members of the Maquis (3rd Section, Compagnie Louis) posing with weapons and banners at Luzy, France. Kenneth Mackenzie and David Sillitoe of SOE are in the centre.

Members of the Maquis

A soldier inspects a pair of German PzKpfw tanks knocked out by 46th Division on the Gothic Line, 7 September 1944

Knocked-out German Tanks

An M7 105-mm Howitzer Motor Carriage from either Task Force Hogan or Task Force Lovelady in Neuville, Belgium on 7 September 1944

M7 105-mm Howitzer Motor Carriage in Neuville

F6F-3 Hellcat 86-F-17 of VF-86 Escort Carrier Charger (CVE-30), September 7, 1944

Representatives of the Polish Red Cross arrive blindfolded to meet German military policemen to negotiate safe passage of civilians, 7 September 1944

Negotiating Safe Passage of Civilians

Germans Shelling from a 7.5-cm-Pak 40 in Warsaw, September, 1944