Tuesday, September 26, 1944. Coastal artillery exchange.

The British 8th Army crossed the Uso (Rubicon).

The British 2nd Army took Turnhout between Antwerp and Eindhoven.   They also took Oss.

The Germans shelled the British coastal city of Dover with long-range artillery implaced near Calais.  The British returned fire with long range coast artillery at Dover.  This would end the long range artillery duels across the channel.

The RAF bombed Calais and Cap Griz Nez.

The Red Army prevailed in its Tallinn Offensive.

Greek resistance groups recognized the authority of the Greek government in exile and to place themselves under the Allied Supreme Commander in the Mediterranean.

Sea rescue from dirigible, September 26, 1944.

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Monday, September 25, 1944. Withdrawal at Arnhem.

Labels: "Wacht am Rhein", 1940s, 1945, Airborne, Battle of Arnhem, Bernard Law Montgomery, British Army, Estonia, Netherlands, Operation Market Garden, Red Army, The roles of men and women, Volkssturm, Yugoslav Partisans

Saturday, September 23, 1944. The Fala Speech.

The Red Army entered Hungary.  In Estonia, they reached the Baltic.

The Canadians crossed the Escaut Canal in an attack designed to clear the Germans from the north bank of the Scheldt.  30th Corps, however, was halted and the Germans made a successful counterattack north of Eindhoven.

The RAF destroyed an aqueduct on the Dortmund-Ems Canal wiping out a route of transport for prefabricated U-boat parts.

President Roosevelt delivered a speech in front of Washington Teamsters in which he defended himself against false accusations by Republicans that he had a Navy destroyer restrive his dog Fala from the Aleutians.  In it, he stated:

These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my little dog, Fala. Well, of course, I don't resent attacks, and my family don't resent attacks, but Fala does resent them. You know, Fala is Scotch, and being a Scottie, as soon as he learned that the Republican fiction writers in Congress and out had concocted a story that I'd left him behind on an Aleutian island and had sent a destroyer back to find him – at a cost to the taxpayers of two or three, or eight or twenty million dollars – his Scotch soul was furious. He has not been the same dog since. I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself ... But I think I have a right to resent, to object, to libelous statements about my dog.

The crowd laughed at the joke.

The 81st Infantry Division took the unoccupied Ulithi Atoll to the north of Palau.  Work would immediately commence on building an airstrip.

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Friday, September 22, 1944. Stiffening resistance in the Netherlands.

Labels: 1940s, 1944, Battle of Peleliu, British Army, Canadian Army, Estonia, Italy, Operation Market Garden, Operation Undergo, Paratroopers, Pas-de-Calais France, Polish Army, World War Two