We start today with some items Sarah Sundin has already noted in her blog:
Today in World War II History—July 22, 1944
Operation Goodwood concludes near Caen with limited results, and the US began initial support operations for Operation Cobra.
The Moscow controlled Polish Committee of National Liberation was established in Chelm.
The Red Army closed the Brody Pocket in Ukraine, capturing 17,000 German troops. The Red Army also took Panevezys, Lithuania.
The Red Army overran the Majdanek concentration camp, the first concentration camp to be liberated by Allied forces.
The first all fighter aircraft shuttle mission occurred with July 22, 1944 Italian based U.S. P-38 Lightning's and P-51 Mustangs of Fifteenth Air Force attacking German airfields at Bacau and Zilistea, Romania and flying on to Soviet territory.
The Germans began cancelling the construction of new U-boats as well as the repair of existing ones.
Arrests continued due to the July 20, plot.
The Poles took Castelfiorentino and Tavernelle, Italy.
The USS Bailey shelled positions on Tinian.
The US Army Air Force raided Japanese positions in Shanghai.
Bretton Woods concluded.
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