Wednesday, September 27, 1944. The Battle of Metz commences.

S/Sgt. Claude W. Small, of Summit Street, Boothwyn, Pennsylvania reads a letter from home.  27 September, 1944.

The Red Army and Yugoslav partisans crossed into Albania.

The Battle of Metz began.

Only four B-24s out of thirty-five from the 445th BG survive the round trip from their base in the UK to their target at Kassel.

The Finnish army took Pudasjärvi in northern Finland from the Germans.

Sweden closed its ports to German shipping.

The Japanese troop transport and hospital ship Ural Maru was sunk in the South China Sea by the USS Flasher.  2,000 perished in the sinking.

The HMS Rockingham hit a mine in the North Sea and ultimately sank.

Australian sailors, September 27, 1944.

Controversial evangelist Aimee Elizabeth Semple McPherson died at age 53 from an accidental overdose of sleeping pills.

McPherson inspired a major plot, in a very fictionalized form, in the revived Perry Mason series.

Last edition:

Tuesday, September 26, 1944. Coastal artillery exchange.

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