The operation would begin the breakout from the bocage company and the unrelenting advance towards the Rhine.
The operation saw the use of U.S. Army Air Corps heavy bombers in the close air support/tactical role, which was a novelty for the US. Gen. Lesley J. McNair, observing the strikes, was killed by a bomb that landed short. He was not alone. About 100 US service men were killed in this fashion on this day.
The Battle of Auvere in Estonia ended with a German victory. The Battle of Verrières Ridge in France likewise did.
Goebbels was named "Reich Plenipotentiary for the Total War Effort". He cancelled vacation leave for women involved in war related work on the same day.
A dismantled V2 rocket captured by the Polish Resistance was flown out of occupied Poland to London.
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