SC 192989 - French girls wave to members of an artillery unit as their truck towing an eight inch gun rolls along a highway to take up a position near Brest. The artillery piece is a M1 155 "Long Tom".
The German 7th Army retreated across the Orne River, abandoning 18,000 troops to captivity. The Allies closed the Falaise Gap.
The Third Army reached Versailles.
The Red Cross entered the Drancy internment camp in France, finding 500 survivors there.
The Vichy French Vichy battleship Strasbourg and cruiser La Galissonnière were sunk at Toulon by the U.S. Army Air Force.
U.S. serviceman shares a glass of something with two French women, August 18, 1944.
Pvt. J.K. Mabry, Memphis, Tenn., and Pvt. Borislav M. Tences, Garfield, N.J., infantrymen of the 3rd Infantry Division, rest alongside the road leading to Brignoles, southern France. ONe has his shoes off, which would have made my DI yell at me. The 3d Infantry Division was highly experienced and had been in action since Operation Torch. It must have been refitted before Dragoon, as photos consistently show its troops wearing M1943 boots, which were new at the time. Photos of troops from Overlord do not tend to show that.
The U-107 and U-621 were sunk by Allied ships and aircraft. The U-129 was scuttled.
US submarines attacked Japanese convoy Hi-71 in the South China Sea and sank the carrier Taiyō. In the Philippine Sea a US submarine sank the cruiser Natori.
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