\WORDS AT WAR episode #62 Sept 05, 1944; "The Veteran Comes Back" for Johnson's Wax.
The USSR declared war on Axis aligned Bulgaria.
Bulgaria had not attacked the USSR, but had supported Nazi Germany. It had declared war in 1941 on the US and UK, which was a fairly safe, it seemed, thing to do. Really, the Soviet Union should have declared war on it earlier, for that reason, although the delay bade sense for strategic reasons. It had also participated, albeit to a limited extent, in the war in the Balkans, for its own territorial reasons.
The Battle of Turda began in Romania. Hungarian forces allied with the Germans joined in the action as the Hungarian army began to act in opposition to its government's desire to get out of the war, out of a fear of Soviet invasion.
Sweden barred entry into its country of fleeing Nazis, something significant in light of Finland stepping out of the war.
The U.S Army captured Namur and Chareroi.
In Italy, the U.S. Army captured Lucca.
Hitler reappointed Rundstedt as Commander in Chief West.
French spy Gustave Biéler was executed by the Germans. Born in France, he immigrated to Canada as an adult, and joined the SOE during the Second World War.
Pro Nazi Štefan Tiso became the Prime Minister of Slovakia. He'd press for the "final solution" in Slovakia.
He was sentenced to live in prison after the war, dying in prison in 1959.
The U-362 was sunk in the Kara Sea by a Soviet minesweeper.
The governments of Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg agree to the form the Benelux Customs Union.
An earthquake at Cornwall Ontario damaged buildings there and into New York.
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