Philippe Pétain was arrested by the Germans for his refusal to a German demand that he leave France.
Dead German soldier in Toulon.
The Battle of Toulon began.
While the Falaise Gap was closed, Germana units continued to escape through gaps in the line.
The 3d Army captured Seine River crossings at Mantes Grassicourt and entered Fontainbleau.
Pvt. Herbert Knowles, Toledo, Wash., and Pvt. Charles Brown, Richmond, Ind., peer over the top of a knoll to view the burning German convoy in the distance, blasted by air and artillery near Chambois.
Another projectile from an 8 inch howitzer is on its way to stop the German retreat across the Seine River, France, opposite the town of Mantes-Gassicourt, 15 miles below Paris. 20 August, 1944.
Pvt. Dan Lipshutz, of Philadelphia, Pa., a guard in a prisoner-of-war camp somewhere in France, points out the contrast between the two very old, and the one very young soldier captured in the Allied pincer movement in France. The two old soldiers are white Russian Mongols who were fighting for the Nazis. August 20, 1944.
Knocked out Tiger [sic] tank, the last vehicle abandoned by the Germans in their flight from Argentan, France, in the face of terrific American assault which liberated the town. 20 August, 1944.
Self propelled artillery battery, August 20, 1944.
The Allies bombed Buna Werke POW camp in Poland in error, killing 39 British POWs.
The Soviets began the Jassy-Kishinev Offensive in Romania.
The U-188 was scuttled in Bordeaux, the U-9 was sunk at Constanța in a Soviet air raid, U-413 was lost to a mine in the Cornish corridor, U-984 was sunk by Canadian warships in the Bay of Biscay and the U-1229 was sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by Allied aircraft.
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