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25 July 1944
What happened on this day in the Second World War, from 1939 to 1945, with a source for every entry.
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Each day we list events from the Second World War that happened on that date, from 1939 to 1945. Every entry names its source and links to it, so you can read further. Entries are sourced and machine-screened before they go up, a subset is human-reviewed, and we add more over time.
8 of 91 sourced entries for this date, chosen by the editor.
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France
21 Army Group: U.S. First Army launches breakout assault (COBRA) in VII Corps zone as weather conditions improve. Saturation bombing by Eighth and Ninth Air Forces precedes the ground assault and stuns enemy.
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Italy
AAI: In U.S. Fifth Army area, II Corps takes over sector of 88th Div on right flank of army, previously right flank of IV Corps. 88th Div finishes clearing its zone below the Arno and releases TF Ramey.
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Operation Spring near Caen is one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war.
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Dutch East Indies
Naval operation of World War II.
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Operation Cobra
General Sir Bernard Montgomery, commanding all Allied ground forces in Normandy, intended Caen to be taken on D-Day, while Cherbourg was expected to fall 15 days later.
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Operation Cobra
Operation Cobra, together with concurrent offensives by the British Second Army and the Canadian First Army, was decisive in securing an Allied victory in the Normandy campaign.
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Operation Cobra
Operation Cobra was an offensive launched by the First United States Army under Lieutenant General Omar Bradley seven weeks after the D-Day landings, during the Normandy campaign of World War II.
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