15,000 U.S. troops of the 28th Infantry division marched down the Champs Elysees in Paris.
The Battle of Marseille ended in an Allied victory.
The British 8th Army crossed the Foglia.
The Slovak National Uprising began.
At the time, with Romania having changed sides, the Red Army actually in East Prussia, and Hungary attempting to get out of the war, it looked as if the collapse of Germany was eminent.
It should be noted that the Warsaw Uprising was still going on.
The Jassy–Kishinev Offensive, Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive and Šiauliai Offensive all ended in Soviet victories. The Red Army took the Black Sea port of Constanta and the Romanian city of Buzau.
The Soviets rejected the Bulgarian proclamation of neutrality.
The British government proclaimed the Polish Home Army was a de jure belligerent force. The US also did.
Operation Goodwood, the Royal Navy effort to sink the Tirptiz, concluded as a failure.
Dumbarton Oaks concluded.
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