Lex Anteinternet: Monday, July 24, 1944. Marines land on Tinian.

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Monday, July 24, 1944. Marines land on Tinian.

The U.S. Army took Saint-Lô.

Marines landed on Tinian in the Marianas. The landings featured the use of napalm, the first time it had been used in the Pacific.

Unsuccessful so far, the Red Army commenced another Narva Offensive. The Red Army captured Lubin and overran the location of the Majdanek Concentration Camp.

Operation Cobra, the planned American offensive designed to break out of the bocage country, was postponed for 24 hours due to bad weather.

The RAF damaged the U-239 in an air raid on Kiel, and she never returned to service.

Last edition:

Sunday, July 23, 1944. The Lwów Uprising

Labels: 1940s, 1944, Battle of Saint-Lô, Canadian Army, German SS, July 20 Plot, Lwów Uprising, Operation Overlord, Operation Tempest, Polish Home Army, Red Army, USSR, World War Two

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