The first meeting of American troops of General Patton's Third U.S. Army forces with French troops of General Patch's Seventh U.S. Army took place recently when their long reconnaissance arms met at Autun, France. Here Adjutant Emile Lancery, Bouhy, France, left, whose native group landed near Toulon, is shown shaking hands with Sgt. Louis Basil, Follansbee, W.Va., in the first scout vehicle of the Combat Command. 13 September, 1944. Combat Command B, 6th Armored Division.
Greek, Canadian and New Zealand forces attacked the Germans at Rimini, Italy.
The Red Army took the Warsaw suburb of Praga. That evening, the Soviet air force began dropping supplies to the Home Army in Warsaw. The action was undertaken due to US and UK pressure.
The Greek People's Liberation Army and the collaborationist Security Battalions fought at Melgalas.
The Navy begana pre invasion bombardment of Peleliu and Angaur.
SOE agents Yolande Beekman, 32, Madeleine Damerment, 26, and Noor Inayat Khan, 30, were executed at Dachau.
Yolande Beekman.
Madeleine Damerment
Noor Inayat Khan.
The USS Warrington sunk in the 1944 Great Atlantic Hurricane.
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