Allied aircraft dropped 14,000 tons of bombs on Monte Cassino and fired 195,000 rounds of artillery. British, Indian and New Zealand troops tried, and failed, to take the abbey.
The Red Army crossed the Bug.
US troops held off a Japanese assault on the American beachhead at Bougainville.
Additional cavalry landed on Manus Island in the Admiralities.
The Japanese crossed the Chindwwin River in Burma.
The U-653 was sunk in the North Atlantic by the Royal Navy. The British submarine Stonehenge was lost in the Indian Ocean.
The State Anthem of the Soviet Union replaced The Internationale as the anthem of the USSR.
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