Lt. Gen. H. M. Smith, Maj. Gen. Watson, Br. Gen., Erskins, Col. Riseley, Capt. D. V. Nahrgang (R-2) conference at 6th Marine Regiment CP. D plus 3, Saipan.
On Saipan, the 4th Marine Division reached the west side of the island and the 27th Infantry Division captured Aslito airfield. Japanese air strikes sank one American destroyer, but most of the Navy has withdrawn to meet the approaching combined Japanese fleet.
Impressed transportation, Saipan.
US carriers rendezvoused west of the Mariana's and the Japanese spot them from the air late in the day. A Japanese airstrike, using Guam as the ending base, was planned.
The British captured Assisi.
This is a good time to recall that the British had more troops committed in the West, at this point, than any other Western combatant. That would change in the second half of 1944, but its notable. It's particularly notable as they were drawing from a smaller pool of manpower than the second-largest committed power, the United States.
A V-1 hit the Guards Chapel of Wellington Barracks during Sunday service and killed 121 people.
The improbably named Ivanoe Bonomi replaced Pietro Badoglio as Prime Minister of Italy.
The U.S. 7th Corps cut the Contentin Peninsula in two, trapping the German forces defending Cherbourg.
Fighting was heavy near Caen, resulting in German forces being drawn off from that area opening up opportunities for U.S. forces, but also straining the Allied air forces which were depending upon more ground having been taken by this time in order to establish air bases on the continent.
The Red Army broke through Finnish defensive lines and advanced towards Viipuri.
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