Air Operations, Carolines11th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s based in the Marshall Islands attack the Truk Atoll. [ | ]Air Operations, CBIBURMA
Air Operations, East Indies
Air Operations, EuropeThe Russians fly their last missions to drop supplies for the Poles in Warsaw. In 10 nights of airlift operations, the Red Air Force has flown 2,500 sorties in support of the Warsaw garrison and delivered 50 tons of munitions and food. RAF BOMBER COMMANDDaylight Ops: Minor Ops:
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Air Operations, Japan2 28th Composite Bomb Group B-24s attack the Kataoka naval base and the Kokutan Cape. [ | ]Air Operations, New Guinea
Battle of the AtlanticThe German submarine U-863 is sunk by naval land-based aircraft (VP-107) in the South Atlantic area. [ | ]Burma-ChinaChinese engineers and civilians, assisted by American technicians, begin the construction of a military road between Myitkyina, Teng-chung and Kunming. [ | ]Eastern FrontThe Russians begin a campaign to recapture the Moonsund Archipelago off Estonia. This operation will continue until November 24. Troops of the Russian 8th Army land on Muhu Island in the Baltic. The German forces withdraw from this position to the nearby Saaremaa. The Russians land on Himmaa on October 5 where there is heavy fighting until October 10. The Germans then retreat into the Syrver Peninsula and are not finally destroyed until November 24. NORTHERN SECTORThe 8th Army overruns Muhu Island. CENTRAL SECTORThe battle for Warsaw enters its final phase. Polish forces in the Kampinos Forest reach the Skierniewice-Zyrandow railway but are held up by German units. A fierce German attack destroys the Poles, only 100 of the 2,500 strong force escaping to link up with other units. SOUTHERN SECTORFighting at Cluj intensifies once again as the 6th Army and 2nd Hungarian Army attacks. To the south the 57th Army continues its drive toward Belgrade, together with the IV Guards Mechanized Corps. This force comprises 200,000 men while the 46th Army, supporting the northern wing of the attack, has another 93,500 men. [ | ]ItalyAt Marzabotto, in Bologna province in the foothills of the Apennines, 2 SS regiments begin a reprisal operation against the partisans. Within a few days the Germans, commanded by Maj Walter Reder, have murdered 1,836 civilians. [ | ]PacificThe US submarine Narwhal (SS-167) rescues 81 Allied prisoners of war who had survived the sinking of the Japanese freighter Shinyo Maru. Hundreds of the prisoners were being transported from Mindanao when the ship was torpedoed by another American submarine. More than 2,000 Allied prisoners went down with the ship. The survivors found their way to Sindangan Bay in Mindanao, where Filipino guerrillas radioed for aid, bringing in Narwhal (SS-167). [ | ]PalausOn Peleliu the 7th Marines are replaced by units of the 321st Inf in the attack on the Japanese positions in the Mount Umurbrogol pocket. The reduction of the Mount Amiangal pocket also goes ahead. The Americans succeed in driving the Japanese out of the center of the Lake Salome area, forcing them to withdraw to the extreme northwest of the island. The islets of Ngesebus and Kongauru are reported clear. [ | ]United States, PolicyUS ships are forbidden to call at Argentine ports as Roosevelt warns of the Argentine government's neo-fascist leanings. [ | ]Western FrontIn their continuing attacks at Calais the Canadian 3rd Div begins to make real progress against the stubborn German defense. The Canadians take Cap Gris Nez. [ | ]Images from September 29, 1944
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