Air Operations, CBI

• 10th Air Force P-47s attack the Bhamo-Myothit and Pinwe-Mawlu areas.

• 12 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s and a small number of 14th Air Force P-40s attack Mangshih and Lungfukwan.
• More than 50 14th Air Force P-51s and P-40s attack numerous targets across large parts of southern China.
• 9 10th Air Force B-25s attack troops and stores at Hinlong.
• More than 20 10th Air Force P-47s attack Tingka, Wanting, and fuel stores at Chefang.
• 73 of 109 58th Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s dispatched attack steel works at Anshan through heavy cloud cover. All bombs miss the target. No B-29s are lost.
• 19 7th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s transport fuel from India to several destinations in China.
• Japanese Army ground forces capture Tanchuk and the city’s 14th Air Force airfield.

• 6 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s and 4 449th Fighter Squadron P-38s attack a bridge at Dara.

Air Operations, Central Pacific

During the night, VII Bomber Command B-24s attack Wake Island.

Air Operations, East Indies

• FEAF B-24s and B-25s attack the Kendari airfield on Celebes and the Liang airfield on Amboina.
• B-25s attack Maumere Bay in the Sunda Islands.

Air Operations, Europe

• 722 aircraft including 388 Lancasters, 289 Halifaxes and 45 Mosquitos, carry out 2 separate raids in the Calais area. 531 aircraft are sent to 4 targets at Cap Gris Nez and 191 aircraft to 3 targets near Calais. A total of 3,500 tons of bombs are dropped. Accurate and concentrated bombing is observed at all targets.
• 2 Lancasters are lost.

• 5 Hudsons are on Resistance operations, 74 Halifaxes are on fuel-carrying flights, and there are 2 Ranger patrols and 5 RCM sorties.
• There are no losses.

• 226 Lancasters and 11 Mosquitos of Nos. 1 and 5 Groups are sent to Karlsruhe. Bomber Command claims a concentrated attack with a large part of the city devastated.
• 2 Lancasters are lost.

• 50 Mosquitos are sent to Frankfurt and 6 to Hamburg, and there are 26 RCM sorties.
• There are no losses.

Air Operations, Japan

4 28th Composite Bomb Group B-24s employ radar to attack the Suribachi airfield in the Kurile Islands.

Britain, Home Front

German cross-Channel guns carry out a furious bombardment of Dover. A shell strikes a hostel killing 49.

Eastern Front

The Central Front stabilizes along the line of the Narew and Vistula Rivers. The Russians have advanced 604 km since June 23 and virtually annihilated 25 divisions of German Army Group Center.

Following a bitter, 3-day battle, 2,000 Polish fighters are forced to surrender in Mokotow. Elements of the Polish Mokotow detachment attempt to escape through the sewers to the city center but the Germans kill most of them, just 600 managing to escape. Komorowski knows the end is near but continues to resist the German attacks.

Greece, Politics

At Caserta in Italy an agreement is concluded between the exile Greek government and the various guerilla leaders in which the guerillas undertake to obey the orders of the government. The government delegates military authority to the British Gen Ronald Scobie who has been appointed by Gen Maitland Wilson who has supervised the talks.

Italy

8th Army units cross the Uso (the ancient Rubicon) River as their advance goes on.

Pacific

• The Japanese submarine I-175 is sunk by the US destroyer escort McCoy Reynolds (DE-440) northeast of the Palau Islands.
• The US submarine Pargo (SS-264) sinks the Japanese minelayer Aotaka off Borneo.

Palau Islands

On Peleliu, after repelling 3 furious Japanese counterattacks, the Marines reach the point at which the western and eastern roads meet, at the foot of Mount Amiangal in the north of the island. A special unit attacks the Japanese positions toward the south with flame-throwers and tanks, blocking up the pill-boxes with earth and stones and directing flames through the slots. By evening the important Hill 120 is in American hands. The Japanese are by now cut off in a number of pockets on Mount Umurbrogol and 'Bloody Hill', in the center of the island, and Mount Amiangal in the north.

On Angaur, the US 322nd Inf succeeds in making a small penetration into the northern part of the Lake Salome basin.

Western Front

The Allied attack in Belgium and Holland continue. Turnhout, in north Belgium midway between Antwerp and Eindhoven, and Oss, west of Grave, are both taken as the advance of XXX Corps to the Rhine is consolidated. This has been a considerable achievement even though the prize of the bridge at Arnhem has not been won.

Images from September 26, 1944

Universal Carriers in Deurne during the Advance towards Gemert, 26 september 1944

The British 11th Armored Division passes through Deurne, Holland, while advancing towards Gemert, 26 september 1944

Infantry and Carriers of 11th Armored Division Advance through Deurne, 26 september 1944

Survivors of 1st Airborne Division at Nijmegen, 26 September 1944

Major Lonsdale Accepts a Light from Lt Polley after Arnhem, Njimegen 26th September 1944

Sexton 25-pdr self-propelled guns of 11th Armoured Division pass through Deurne during the advance towards Gemert, 26 september 1944

Self-propelled Guns Pass through Deurne

A Suwannee crewman cuts away the damage so that cross-members can be added for bracing during deck repairs after the first kamikaze attack

Kamikaze Attack Damage

A Suwannee crewman inspects the engine of one of the Japanese Zeroes that deliberately crashed into the ship.

Inspecting the Engine of a Japanese Zero

The Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his wife, Clementine, stand on the deck of the QUEEN MARY upon arrival in Scotland after a visit to Canada on 26 September 1944

Churchill and His Wife Clementine

German soldiers of the assault team go through the ruins in the city of Arnhem in the Netherlands. In the center – flamethrower of the Flammenwerfer 41 and MP.44 (Sturmgewehr 1944) assault rifle. Operation Market Garden, September 1944

Germans in the Ruins of Arnhem