Air Operations, Bonin Islands

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

Air Operations, Carolines

20 VMF-114 F4Us bombard Ngesebus Island, just north of Peleliu, as US Msrines mount an amphibious assault.

Air Operations, CBI

4 10th Air Force P-47s attack Mawhun and Nansiaung.

• 26 308th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s attack Samshui.
• 31 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s attack the Tienho and White Cloud airfields at Canton, two occupied towns, and road traffic in east-central China.
• 14th Air Force fighter-bombers mount more than 100 effective sorties against numerous communications targets and troop concentrations in east-central and southwestern China and northern French Indochina.
• P-51s with the 51st Fighter Group’s 26th Fighter Squadron down 2 Japanese fighters in an afternoon engagement near Samshui.

Air Operations, East Indies

• FEAF B-25s attack small vessels off Kairatoe, Celebes.
• V Bomber Command A-20s attack the Langoan airfiel on Ceram.
• FEAF P-38s attack barges and the town area at Pajahi in the Molucca Islands.

Air Operations, Europe

• 494 aircraft of Nos. 1, 3, 6 and 8 Groups are sent to attack 4 German positions at Calais and 6 battery positions at Cap Gris Nez. In the aircraft total are 230 Lancasters, 214 Halifaxes, and 50 Mosquitos. About 50 aircraft are assigned to each position. Only 68 aircraft bomb at Calais before the Master Bomber cancels the raid because of worsening cloud conditions and only 198 out of 301 aircraft bomb at Cap Gris Nez. Calais will surrender to the Canadian Army soon after this raid and all the French Channel ports will be thus in Allied hands, although most of the facilities require extensive clearance and repair. This, and the continuing presence of German troops along the River Scheldt between Antwerp and the sea, will cause the Allied ground forces serious supply difficulties for several more weeks.
• There are no losses.

• 2 Liberators and 2 Wellingtons are on signals investigation patrols, 10 Hudsons and 2 Lysanders are on Resistance operations, and 75 Halifaxes are on fuel-carrying flights.
• There are no losses.

• 44 Mosquitos are sent to Brunswick, 5 to Heilbronn and 4 to Aschaffenburg, and there are 52 Mosquito patrols and 43 RCM sorties.
• 1 Mosquito Intruder is lost.

Air Operations, New Guinea

V Fighter Command P-47s attack the airfield at Manokwari.

Burma-India

The British XV Corps receives orders to go over to the offensive on the Arakan front to drive the Japanese from the area of Chittagong and from the estuary of the Naaf River.

Eastern Front

The Russian 57th Army, with 9 divisions, moves from Vidin in Bulgaria into Yugoslavia, heading for Belgrade.

Gagen's 57th Army attack from Vidin toward Belgrade but meet determined resistance from Army Group F.

Occupied Greece

All Greek Resistance groups and political factions agree to accept orders from the Allied Supreme Commander in the Mediterranean and from Lt-Gen Ronald Scobie, commander of Allied operations in Greece.

Palaus

At 9:00a.m. units of the 5th Marines, supported by artillery, tanks and figher-bombers taking off from Peleliu airfield land on the islet of Negesbus and on Kongauru, and begin to clear them of the enemy. There is little fighting on either. The Ngesebus airfield is almost entirely captured by 3:00p.m.

On Peleliu itself , where bad weather has set in, the full-scale US attacks come to an end but bitter fighting continues all around Mount Umurbrogol as the Americans keep trying to eliminate individual Japanese positions.

On Angaur mopping up continues in the Lake Salome area.

Western Front

The Canadian 3rd Div succeeds in penetrating into the defenses of Calais. After further heavy bombing by the RAF the Germans surrender the Calais Citadel.

German frogmen attempt to blow up the bridge over the Waal River at Nijmegen.

Images from September 28, 1944

B-17G Flying Fortress 'Lost Angel' belly landed at Kimbolton after being damaged over Magdeburg, Germany, 28 Sep 1944. (US National Archives)

Belly Landing at Kimbolton

28 September 1944, Trincomalee, Ceylon. Royal Marines from ships of the Eastern Fleet carried out jungle warfare exercises. The Fleet Royal Marines Officer, Colonel P Picton-Phillipps, discussing the situation with an umpire in a Jeep.

British Mainres practice jungle warfare

28 September 1944, Greenock. The 84000 ton Cunard liner Queen Mary in her grey white war paint as she prepared to make another Atlantic crossing taking wounded US troops back to America.

The Queen Mary On War Service

Jeep in the Mud in Huertgen Forest

Hemingway with Colonel Charles 'Buck' Lanham in Schweitzer, Germany, during World War II, 28 September 1944

28 September 1944, Trincomalee, Ceylon. Royal Marines from ships of the Eastern Fleet carried out jungle warfare exercises.

Jungle Warfare Exercises

A column of U.S. Marines wade ashore at a Tinian Island beach point, on September 28, 1944, after disembarking from Coast Guard landing craft to reinforce American assault troops fighting inland. In background are vessels of the supporting force and various landing craft. (AP Photo)

Going Ashore on Tinian

US Soldiers Patrol in Nijmegen, Holland, 28 September 1944 (National Archives)