A two week Allied hiatus of bombing of Italian targets came to an end. Milan and Turin were struck by the RAF, which also struck Berlin for the first time since May 21. U.S. bombers began a heavier attack on Rome and a precision bombing attack on Italian rail yards at San Lorenzo and Vittorio. The US bombed an Austrian target for the first time.
Fr. Jakob Gapp, age 46, was executed by the Germans.
Fr. Gapp was an Austrian with outspoken anti-Nazi views and had gone into exile, first in France and then in Spain, as a result. He'd been kidnapped by German agents posing as refugees needing help to cross the Spanish border and sentenced to death. He was beatified on November 24, 1996.
In Natrona County, the high was 87.4 F and the low 52.3F.
