Air Operations, Bonin Islands

15 30th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s based at Saipan attack Chichi Jima.

Air Operations, Carolines

• VC-10 TBMs and FMs from Task Unit 32.7.3 sweep the Yap Atoll.
• During the night, US carrier aircraft take part (with warships and land-based artillery) in attacking troop-laden Japanese Army landing barges discovered as they approach northern Peleliu.

Air Operations, CBI

• 24 308th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s attack Hankow.
• 12 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s and 7 14th Air Force P-51s attack transportation targets around Hengyang. 7 B-25s attack Kianghwa. 5 B-25s attack Yungming.
• 44 P-51s and P-40s attack road targets in the Changsha, Siangtan, and Sintsiang areas.
• More than 50 P-51s and P-40s attack targets of opportunity near Chuanhsien, Hankow, Kiyang, Lingling, and Paoching.
• 23rd Fighter Group P-40s and P-51s down 5 Japanese fighters around Sintsiang at an unspecified time.
• 13 7th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s transport fuel from India to Liuchow.

Air Operations, East Indies

• FEAF B-24s attack the Mapanget and Sidate airfields on Celebes.
• B-24s and B-25s attack Amahai (Ceram), the Haroekoe airfield on Ceram, and Liang (Amboina).

Air Operations, Europe

• 7 aircraft of No. 100 Group fly signals investigation patrols without a loss.

• There are 5 Mosquito Intruder patrols and 9 RCM sorties.
• There are no losses.

Air Operations, New Guinea

• V Bomber Command A-20s attack the airfield at Urarom.
• V Fighter Command fighter-bombers attack Idorra, Kaimana, Moemi, and Windissi.

Air Operations, Philippines

• US carrier aircraft from Task Force 38 mount punishing attacks in the Manila area and across the central Philippines.
• Carrier-based F6Fs down 1 Ki-46 'Dinah' reconnaissance plane, 1 torpedo bomber, 1 Ki-21 'Sally' medium bomber, 10 D3A 'Val' dive bombers, and 13 fighters over and near Luzon between 0630 and 1350 hours.

Balkans

In Croatia Pavelitch decrees general mobilization. Since the changed allegiance of Rumania and Bulgaria, Pavelitch has been receiving more help from the Germans. But despite mobilization and German aid, Tito's force become more and more threatening, and the Croat units armed by the Germans, collapse the first time they encounter the partisans.

Eastern Front

Troops from Leonid Govorov's Leningrad Front take Tallinn the capital of Estonia. In Rumania the Russian advance reaches Arad.

Lead elements of the 59th and 8th Armies reach Tallinn and capture the city as the 18th Army rapidly evacuates its units south to avoid encirclement.

The 3rd Panzer Army has to abandon its counterattack in Latvia, having lost more than 140 panzers during bitter fighting. The 43rd and 4th Shock Armies immediately counterattack and force the 16th Army back upon Riga.

Italy

All the units of the US 5th Army are now past the 'Gothic' Line; only one little strip on the Tyrrhenian coast, between Leghorn and La Spezia, remains in German hands.

Palaus

Gen Roy Geiger decides to bring in the 321st Inf, a regt of 81st Inf Div, to replace some of the Marine units which have taken heavy losses in the attacks on Mount Umurbrogol. Later a second regiment of this div will be committed. The Japanese are still solidly dug in in their 'termite nests' and still hold the attackers at bay.

On Angaur units of he 323rd Regt of the 81st Div press on into the Lake Salome area, but withdraw at nightfall.

A regimental combat group of the US 81st Div lands on Ulithi atoll, in the northwest Carolines, the same group that includes the Palau Islands.

Western Front

The Polish paratroops joined later by British 43rd Div try to reach the Rhine to help the British airborne troops still cut off on the north bank. Other XXX Corps forces continue to meet heavy resistance in their advance toward Arnhem. Elst 5 miles north of Nijmegen is taken. In other Allied attacks Boulogne falls to the Canadian 3rd Div. Gen Eisenhower decides to give absolute priority to the operations for the liberation of the Scheldt estuary so as to be able to use the port of Antwerp.

The Germans surrender at Boulogne after a long and costly defense. Stolberg, east of Aachen, is captured.

Images from September 22, 1944

Major-General Robert E Urquhart, commanding 1st British Airborne Division, with the Pegasus airborne pennant in the grounds outside his headquarters at the Hartenstein Hotel in Oosterbeek, 22 September 1944

1st Airborne Division Commander

A carrier crew of 8th Rifle Brigade hands out chocolate to Dutch civilians during the advance of 11th Armored Division in Holland, 22 September 1944.

11th Armored Division Carrier Crew

A German picture of some of the supplies dropped by parachute that fell within their area

Airdrop Supplies Falling into German Area

A German Assault Gun in the Oosterbeek Battle

A Sherman Tank of 11th Armored Division Passing through Leende, Holland, 22 September 1944

American soldiers run past a burning truck during one of the most dangerous days of the war in Veghel. September 22, 1944

American Soldiers in Veghel

Personnel of the Loyal Edmonton Regiment filling a jeep with gasoline, San Lorenzo in Monte, Italy, ca. 22 September 1944. The vehicle is marked with the formation sign of I Canadian Corps and bears a Class 2 bridging disc. "Essantee" was a name applied to the Army's service stations - red and green were the Arm of Service colours of the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps. (LAC photo)

Canadians Filling a Jeep with Gasoline

This photo was taken on September 22, 1944 at Sluis IV: General A. McAuliffe met Colonel Robert Sink, Commander 506th PIR

Gen McAuliffe and Col Sink

The 506th Regiment, 2nd Battalion 'Easy Company', 101st Airborne Division in Veghel, 22 September 1944

101st Airborne in Veghel

German prisoners marching through Boulogne shortly after its capture, September 22, 1944

German POWs in Boulogne

11th Armored Division vehicles during the advance in the Netherlands, 22 September 1944. On the right is a Sexton self-propelled gun of 13th (HAC) Regiment Royal Horse Artillery.

British Advance in the Netherlands