The Red Army took Võru and Valga but was defeated in the Battle of Ilomantsi.
Destroyed Soviet T-26 and dead Soviet soldier, Battle of Ilomantsi.
The 3d Army took Argentan. Gen. Bradley halts its further advances in that direction.
Germans begin to evacuate the Falaise Pocket in earnest. 10,000 troops make it out by the end of the day.
105mm self-propelled howitzer gets a cleaning from its crew, having been in the Siege of Brest, France. Pvt. John B. Siirila, Berkeley, Cal.; and Cpl. Robert Silverman, San Francisco, Cal., are poking the gun cleaning rod in and out. Pvt. Ed DeSimmons, Atlantic City, N.J., cleans the machine gun. Pvt. Bert Lavaro, Potsdam, N.Y., wipes the howitzer barrel, as Sgt. William Entrekin, Tallapoosa, Ga., tests the field telephone. 83rd Field Artillery Battalion, 6th Armored Division. 13 August, 1944.
The submarines USS Flier hit a mine in the Balabac Strait and sank.
The U-270 was sunk by the RAAF in ht eBay of Biscay.
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