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9 August 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.

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  1. France

    21 Army Group: In Cdn First Army area, 2 Corps continues S astride Caen-Falaise road. Cdn 4th Armd Div overruns Bretteville-le-Rabet while Pol 1st Armd Div seizes Cauvicourt and St Sylvain in costly fighting.

    Source US Army CMH chronology (opens external site)

  4. President Roosevelt chooses General Douglas MacArthur's plan to invade the Philippines and turns down Admiral Chester W. Nimitz's plan to invade Taiwan.

    Source Wikipedia (opens external site)

  5. Continuation War: The Vyborg-Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during the Second World War, ends to a strategic stalemate.

    Source Wikipedia (opens external site)

  7. China-Burma-India Theater

    THOR mission records show at least 98 Allied sorties (18 recorded unit missions) in the China-Burma-India Theater on 1944-08-09, flown by USAAF 14th Air Force, USAAF 10th Air Force. Targets included CHINA, BURMA.

    Source US Air Force THOR (opens external site)

    THOR is a secondary compilation with known gaps, not a complete record.

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