The Polish Government in Exile rejected the Curzon Line as Poland's eastern border.
While their resistance to the border being moved is admirable, and had to be expected, it was of course doomed.
The Soviets launched a nighttime 600 bomber raid on Helsinki. Finnish air defenses prove ineffectual, which was typical for any nighttime raid, and only three Soviet Air Force planes are lost.
The Red Army captured Porkhov.
The French Resistance attack the SOMUA armor plate works at Lyons, but their explosives fail to detonate.
Leigh Light fitted to a Royal Air Force Coastal Command Liberator, February 26, 1944.
The U-91 was sunk by the Royal Navy.
The United States Army Air Force discover the source of the Orinoco River in British Guiana in an overflight.
Captain Hugh H. Goodman, USN, Commanding Officer of USS Gambier Bay (CVE 73) making first dungaree inspection on board ship, somewhere in the South Pacific, February 26, 1944.
From Sarah Sundin's blog:
Today in World War II History—February 26, 1944: Japanese retreat from Sinzweya, Burma, ending “Battle of the Admin Box." US Navy nurses are given actual commissioned rank instead of relative rank.
