Adolf Hitler dissolved the Abwehr (German Military intelligence) and transferred its functions to the Reich Security Main Office under Heinrich Himmler.

The Italian Campaign: British forces capture Frosinone, Italy.

The BBC broadcast a coded message based on the Paul Verlaine poem Chanson d'automne to inform the French Resistance that the invasion of France was imminent. The Germans understood the intent of the message but failed to bring up sufficient forces.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 100+ aircraft attack on Ferme-D'Urville, France. Target was the main German radio-listing station near the coast. Cloud & haze prevented accurate bombing

Representatives of the Soviet Union and Romania secretly met in Stockholm to discuss conditions for Romania's withdrawal from the war.

Allied Bomber Offensive: First mission of Operation Frantic: Frantic-Joe, a shuttle raid from Italy to Russia by the 15th AF

The Italian Campaign: Allied forces overrun the Caesar C line south of Rome. Adolf Hitler ordered Albert Kesselring to abandon the Italian capital.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 240+ aircraft attack on on railway infrastructure of Trappes, France. Main railway stores & locomotive sheds damaged
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 100+ aircraft attack on Berneval, France. Target was the main German radio jamming station. Target destroyed
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 270+ aircraft attack on coastal batteries on the Pas de Calais, France. This was an invasion deception attack as none of the targets were in Normandy.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 770+ aircraft attack on Boulogne-sur-Mer, Wimereux, Equihen-Plage, Hardelot Plage, Neufchatel, Dannes, Plage-Sainte-Cecile, StellaPlage, Breck-sur-Mer, and Saint-Aubin, France

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 350+ aircraft attack on coastal defence batteries along Channel coast

The Soham rail disaster occurred in the small town of Soham, Cambridgeshire, England when the cargo of an ammunition train exploded and killed two people.

The Provisional Government of the French Republic was created, succeeding the French Committee of National Liberation as the provisional government of Free France.

The Italian Campaign: American forces take Albano and Frascati on the outskirts of Rome, while Canadian forces take Anagni.

The Italian Campaign: German General Albert Kesselring declared Rome an open city.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 100+ aircraft attack on Ferme-D'Urville, France. Target was the main German radio-listing station near the coast. Station destroyed

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 120+ aircraft attack on coastal batteries on at Pas de Calais & Wimereux, France. This was an invasion deception attack as none of the targets were in Normandy.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 250+ aircraft attack on road bridges, and coastal defence batteries in N France

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 330+ aircraft attack on attack coastal defence in the Pas de Calais area

The Italian Campaign: The Italian capital of Rome falls to the Allied forces. There was little fighting in the city itself as American tanks rolled along the Appian Way. The Germans ignored Hitler's order to blow up the Tiber bridges before retreating and the city's historic sites were left intact.

The Western Front: Royal Air Force meteorologist Group Captain James Stagg recommended that Overlord be postponed one day from June 5 to the 6th because of bad weather. Dwight D. Eisenhower followed his advice and postponed D-Day by 24 hours.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 250+ aircraft attack on coastal batteries on the Pas de Calais, France. This was an invasion deception attack as none of the targets were in Normandy.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 300+ aircraft attack on highway bridge and coastal batteries in France

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 200+ aircraft attack on dive-bomb bridges, railroad junction, rolling stock and T/Os in France.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 230+ aircraft attack in Pas de Calais area.

The Western Front: In the first mission of the day the escort is to be divided between the Pas de Calais (COVER) area and the Normandy assault (NEPTUNE ) area. However, D-Day is postponed 24 hrs and the NEPTUNE force is cancelled

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 650+ aircraft attack on attack communications in NW Italy and on both sides of the Francoltalian frontier

The Western Front:: The D-Day naval deceptions began. Allied ships and aircraft made deceptive movements in an attempt to deceive the Germans into believing that the Allied invasion force would land in the Calais region.

American President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a fireside chat on the fall of Rome. "The first of the Axis capitals is now in our hands," Roosevelt said. "One up and two to go!"

King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy transferred most of his remaining constitutional powers to his son Umberto.

The Italian Campaign: Rome was declared an open city and was occupied by American, British & Allied forces

The Italian Campaign: The Battle of Anzio ended after 136 days in an Allied victory.

The Western Front: Operation Tonga began at 10:56 p.m. when an Allied force of bombers, gliders and transport aircraft took off from RAF Tarrant Rushton to begin an airborne operation near the city of Caen.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 1,000+ aircraft attack on coastal batteries on the Normandy coast, France.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 630+ aircraft attack on coastal defence installations in Cherbourg-Caen area & Pas de Calais area

The Italian Campaign: American forces cross the Tiber & British forces E of Rome prepare to advance astride the Tiber against Terni and Rieti.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid,440+ aircraft attack on Ferrara, Forli, Faenza, Castel Maggiore, and Bologna, bomb bridges, bridge approaches, and surrounding areas at Rimini, Fornovo di Taro, and Pioppi, and attack viaduct at Vado Ligure.

Pope Pius XII spoke to crowds at St. Peter's Basilica giving thanks to God and all belligerents for largely sparing Rome from destruction.

The Western Front:  D-Day: Operation Neptune commenced with the crossing of nearly 160,000 Allied troops over the English Channel to land on the beaches of Normandy, France.

Adolf Hitler was awoken at the Berghof around noon and informed of the Normandy landings. He displayed no outward signs of distress and appeared to be confident that the invasion would be repulsed.

President Roosevelt went on national radio at night to address the nation about the Normandy invasion. The president's address took the form of a prayer. It began: "Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavour, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity. Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith."

Winston Churchill announced the Normandy landings in an address to the House of Commons. "I cannot, of course, commit myself to any particular details," Churchill said. "Reports are coming in in rapid succession. So far the Commanders who are engaged report that everything is proceeding according to plan. And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated that has ever occurred ... Nothing that equipment, science or forethought could do has been neglected, and the whole process of opening this great new front will be pursued with the utmost resolution both by the commanders and by the United States and British Governments whom they serve."

The Eastern Front: Operation Rösselsprung concluded. Although the activities of the Yugoslav Partisans were temporarily disrupted by the operation, it failed in its objective of capturing or killing Marshal Josip Broz Tito.

The Eastern Front: the First Jassy–Kishinev Offensive ended in Soviet failure.

The Western Front: D-Day: Operation Overlord commenced with the crossing of nearly 160,000 Allied troops over the English Channel to land on the beaches of Normandy, France.

The Western Front: Omaha beach landings were the most difficult to attack & little went right. American forces had difficulty pushing up the bluffs overlooking the beachfront.

The Western Front: The battle for Pointe du Hoc resulted in Allied victory, while the Battle of Merville Gun Battery was fought to an inconclusive result.

The Western Front: The British executed the capture of the Caen Canal and Orne river bridges. This resulted in the first Allied troops to land in Normandy. On the same day, British forces also undertook Operation Houndsworth and Operation Mallard.

The Western Front: Utah beach landings mostly successful

The Western Front: War photographer Robert Capa took The Magnificent Eleven D-Day photographs.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 1,000+ aircraft attack on German communication networks behind the Normandy coast, France.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 1,360+ aircraft attack on beach installations at Normandy & transportation chokepoints in the town of Caen
The Italian Campaign: British forces W of Tiber reach Civita Castellana and American forces push N and W toward Viterbo and Civitavecchia.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 570+ aircraft attack on oil refineries in Ploesti area, Brasov and Pitesti, Brasov wagon and armament works, Turnu-Severin canal, and Belgrade, Yugoslavia

Chief of Army Equipment and commander of the Replacement Army Friedrich Fromm & Oberst Claus von Stauffenberg meet Adolf Hitler at the Berghof with the revised plan Operation Valkyrie for Hitler to approve & sign.

The Western Front:  British forces liberate Bayeux

The Western Front:  The British began Operation Perch, an attempt to encircle and capture the city of Caen.

The Western Front: Operation Hasty ended with less than half the original force returning safely to British lines.

The Western Front: Operation Tonga ended in an Allied tactical victory.

The Western Front: The Ardenne Abbey massacre begins. 11 Canadian POWs from The North Nova Scotia Highlanders and The Sherbrooke Fusiliers are shot by members of the 12th SS Panzer Division.

The Western Front: The Battle of Bréville began.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 330+ aircraft attack on German communication networks behind the Normandy coast, France.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 110+ aircraft attack on German fuel dumps at Foret de Cerisy on the Normandy coast, France.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 400+ aircraft attack on Flers, Conde-surNoireau, Falaise, Argentan, L'Aigle, and Lisieux, France

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 340+ aircraft attack on Leghorn dock and harbour installations, Voltri shipyards, Savona railroad junction, and Vado Ligure, Antheor viaduct, and Var R bridge

Prime Minister of Italy General Pietro Badoglio and the Italian government moved to Rome.

Allied Bomber Offensive: The first Tallboy bomb was dropped on the.Saumur rail tunnel, France

The Western Front: The Battle of Port-en-Bessin ended in Allied victory.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 480+ aircraft attack on railway infrastructure at Alencon, Fougeres, Mayenne, Pontabult & Rennes, France. All routes of possible German reinforcements to Normandy

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, by aircraft of the 617 Squadron, dropping 12,000Ibs Tallboy 'earthquake' bombs to destroy the Saumur railway tunnel, France. This would prevent the railway line from being used by German armour being sent to Normandy.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 730+ aircraft attack on Rennes and Le Mans and bridges, other railroad facilities near Tours, Nantes, Cinq Marsla-Pile, Pontaubalt, La Vicomte-sur-Rance, Angers, Orleans, la Friliere, Etampes, and Marigny.

The Eastern Front: Soviet forces began the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive intending to knock Finland out of the war.

The Italian Campaign: American forces capture Tarquinia and Viterbo.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 400+ aircraft attack on airfields at Flers, Le Mans, Laval & Rennes, France.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 100+ aircraft attack on on railway infrastructure of Etampes, France.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 500+ aircraft attack on  Munich, Germany

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 430+ aircraft attack on railway infrastructure of Acheres, Dreux, Orleans & Versailles, France.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 550+ aircraft attack on oil stores at Porto Marghera, oil refinery at Trieste, Mestre, Trieste, Ancona, and Ferrara.

German Waffen-SS forces in Greece carried out the Distomo massacre, killing a total of 214 residents of the village of Distomo in retaliation for a partisan attack upon the unit.

German Waffen-SS company carries out the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre in France, killing 642 residents of the village of Oradour-sur-Glane.Roger Godfrin was the only suvivor

The Western Front: American forces capture Carentan and Lison.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 330+ aircraft attack on railway infrastructure of Evreux, Massey-Palaiseau, Nantes & Tours, France.

The Western Front: American and British forces in Normandy link up near Carentan, forming a solid 50-mile (80 km) battlefront with 326,000 men and 54,000 vehicles.

The first salvo of Flying bombs launched against London

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 670+ aircraft attack on German communication networks at Amies, Arras, Caen, Cambrai & Poitiers, France.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 300+ aircraft attack on Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The target was the Nordstern synthetic oil plant. The plant was knocked out for several weeks

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 510+ aircraft attack on road and rail junctions, bridges, arty, town areas, troop concentrations, and various rail lines, gun batteries, bridges, fortifications, radar installation, tanks, ammo dumps, town areas and strongpoints in battle area of France.

V-Weapons Campaign: Germans launches the first V-1 flying bombs at England. Of the ten fired on this day four reached England, killing six people and destroying a railroad bridge.

The Western Front: The Battle of Bloody Gulch was fought southwest of Carentan in Normandy, resulting in an American victory.

The Western Front: The Battle of Bréville ended in a British victory.

The Western Front: The Battle of Villers-Bocage was fought in Normandy.

Germans launched the first V-1 flying bombs at England. Of the ten fired on this day four reached England, killing six people and destroying a railroad bridge.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 220+ aircraft attack on Le Havre, France.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 560+ aircraft attack on aircraft component plants at Munich-Allach, Germany

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid,400+ aircraft attack on fuel dumps in assault areas in France

The Eastern Front: The Battle of Porytowe Wzgórze began between Polish and Russian partisans and German forces.

The Pacific Campaign: The Battle of Lone Tree Hill began in Netherlands New Guinea between American and Japanese forces.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 340+ aircraft attack on German troop concentrations at Aunay-sur-Odon & Evrecy, near Caen, France.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 330+ aircraft attack on railway infrastructure at Cambrai, Douai & St-Pol, France.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 500+ aircraft attack on attack rail communications SW of Paris

The Italian Campaign:  American forces take Magliano & British forces to take Orvieto

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 500+ aircraft attack on targets in Hungary and Yugoslavia, including Budapest, Petfurdo, Komarom, Osijek, and Sisak.

The Pacific Campaign: The Battle of Saipan began when American forces landed on Saipan in the Mariana Islands.

The Eastern Front: The Battle of Porytowe Wzgórze ended in a temporary victory for the Polish and Russian partisan forces.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 300+ aircraft attack on Boulogne, France.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 230+ aircraft attack on German ammunition & fuel dumps at Douillard & Chatellerault, France.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 220+ aircraft attack on railway infrastructure at Lens & Valenciennes, France.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 1,220+ aircraft attack on  Misburg oil refinery in Germany

British newspapers report Pilotless planes are raiding London

The Italian Campaign:  British forces take Foligno and Spoleto.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Crossbow, attack on V-Weapon sites: Heavy night-time British air raid 400+ aircraft attack at the Pas de Calais area.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 320+ aircraft attack on Sterkrade/Holten, Germany. The target was the synthetic oil plant.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 600+ aircraft attack on  Vienna and Bratislava

Iceland formally declared independence from Denmark.

The Western Front: The Battle of Douvres Radar Station was fought. British forces secure the surrender of a German garrison at Douvres-la-Délivrande.

The Italian Campaign: Free French forces land on Elba.

In the part of South London 37 V1s/ killing 129 people

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 310+ aircraft attack on railway infrastructure at Aulnoye, Montdidier & St-Martin-l'Hortier, France.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Crossbow, attack on V-Weapon sites: Heavy day-time British air raid, 110+ aircraft attack on various V-Weapon sites at Oisemont, near Abbeville, France

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 260+ aircraft attack on fuel dumps, a bridge and a railway line S of battle area in France

Ivanoe Bonomi replaces Pietro Badoglio as Prime Minister of Italy.

V-Weapons Campaign: A V-1 flying bomb hit the Guards Chapel of Wellington Barracks during Sunday service and killed 121 people.

The Italian Campaign: British forces capture Assisi.

The Italian Campaign: Free French forces take Elba.

The Italian Campaign: Allied forces capture Assisi

V1 Hits Guards Chapel St James in the middle of the morning service killing 141

AA batteries were ordered to stop shooting down V1s as they are falling on built-up areas

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 1,240+ aircraft attack on attack oil industries at Oslebshausen, Hamburg, and Misburg, dock area and city of Hamburg

German Football Championship Final: Dresdner SC 1898 4-0 Luftwaffen-SV Hamburg, Olympic Stadium, Berlin.

The Pacific Campaign: The Battle of the Philippine Sea begins

The Western Front: A severe Channel storm destroys one of the Allies' Mulberry harbours in Normandy.

Nazi-subordinated Lithuanian Security Police carried out the Glinciszki massacre of 37 mostly Polish residents of the village of Glitiškės.

The Eastern Front: In a massive coordinated sabotage operation, in preparation for Operation Bagration, 100,000 Soviet partisan guerrillas detonated over 10,000 explosions to the rear of German Army Group Centre positions. Supply and communications were rendered inoperable for days.

The Eastern Front: Soviet forces prepare for "Operation Bagration", a huge offensive in Byelorussia (White Russia).

A V-2 rocket becomes the first man-made object in space during a test launch

The Eastern Front: Soviet forces capture Viipuri on the Karelian Isthmus.

The Italian Campaign: The British forces take Perugia

The Burma Campaign:  The Siege of Imphal is lifted after three months.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 1,250+ aircraft attack on strategic targets in N Germany, including oil refineries, synthetic oil plants, a tank ordnance depot, and a military vehicle manufacturing plant.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 370+ aircraft attack on V-weapon sites in France and a coastal def battery at Houlgate

The Italian Campaign: British forces reached the German defensive Trasimene Line in Italy.

The Burma Campaign:  Allied offensive in Burma starts

AA batteries and barrage balloons were established in a line along the North Downs

Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Crossbow, attack on V-Weapon sites: Heavy day-time British air raid, 320+ aircraft attack on various V-Weapon sites at St-Martin-I'Hortier, France

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 100+ aircraft attack on on railway infrastructure of Trappes, France. Main railway stores & locomotive sheds damaged

Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Crossbow, attack on V-Weapon sites: Heavy night-time British air raid 110+ aircraft attack at Oisemont, near Abbeville, France

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 130+ aircraft attack on Wesseling, Germany. The target was the synthetic oil plant.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 120+ aircraft attack on Scholven/Buer, Germany. The target was the synthetic oil plant.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 250+ aircraft attack on  V-weapon sites in Pas de Calais area

The Burma Campaign: The Battle of Kohima ended in a decisive British victory.

The Eastern Front: Soviet forces began Operation Bagration, a broad new summer offensive.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Crossbow, attack on V-Weapon sites: Heavy day-time British air raid, 230+ aircraft attack on various V-Weapon sites at Mimoyecques & Siracourt, France

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 220+ aircraft attack on railway infrastructure at Laon & Rheims, France.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 600+ aircraft attack on tip of Cherbourg Peninsula in support of  the assault on Cherbourg

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 600+ aircraft attack on targets in N Italy, hitting motor transport works at Turin and Chivasso, Parma, Modena, Fornovo di Taro, Bologna, Castel Maggiore, Ferrara, oil storage at Fornovo di Taro, the harbour at Pola, Poggio Renatico, and highway and railroad bridges at Nervesa della Battaglia and Rimini.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Crossbow, attack on V-Weapon sites: Heavy day-time American air raid aircraft attack installations in the Pas de Calais area.

Red Cross representatives see elaborately staged Nazi propaganda ruse at Theresienstadt designed to portray camps as benign

The Eastern Front: Soviet forces began the Bobruysk Offensive, Mogilev Offensive and Vitebsk–Orsha Offensive

Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Crossbow, attack on V-Weapon sites: Heavy day-time British air raid, 410+ aircraft attack on various V-Weapon sites in France

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 200+ aircraft attack on railway infrastructure at Limoges & Saintes, France.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 400+ aircraft attack on oil storage at Giurgiu, 2 oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania

Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Crossbow, attack on V-Weapon sites: Heavy day-time American air raid 100+ aircraft attack 7 V-weapon sites in France.

In the part of South London studied 100 V1s/ killing 426 people

Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Crossbow, attack on V-Weapon sites: Heavy day-time British air raid, 320+ aircraft attack on various V-Weapon sites in France

Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Crossbow, attack on V-Weapon sites: Heavy night-time British air raid, 730+ aircraft attack on various V-Weapon sites in France

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 310+ aircraft attack on Bremen, Germany

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 430+ aircraft attack on  4 gun positions, 3 V-weapon sites in France

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 335+ aircraft attack on railroad repair depot at Craiova, railroad bridge at Piatra, and oil refinery at Ploesti

The Western Front:  took place with American and British warships attacking German fortifications in and around Cherbourg.

The Eastern Front: The Battle of Osuchy begins near Osuchy, Poland between German forces and Polish resistance

The Eastern Front: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala between Finnish and Soviet troops begins. Largest battle ever to be fought in the Nordic countries.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Crossbow, attack on V-Weapon sites: Heavy day-time British air raid, 320+ aircraft attack on various V-Weapon sites in France

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 650+ aircraft attack on oil installations at Sete and Balaruc-le-Vieux, telephone exchange at Le Pontet, railroad bridges at Tarascon and Aries, and bridges at Avignon, and harbour facilities along S coast of France

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 230+ aircraft attack on oil dumps at Montbartier.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 400+ aircraft attack on fuel dumps at Foret d'Andaine, Foret d'Ecouves, and Senonches, and rail bridges at Cherisy, Chartres, Oiseme and Epernon

The 1944 Republican National Convention opened in Chicago, Illinois.

The Eastern Front: The Battle of Osuchy ends in a German victory

The Western Front: British forces began Operation Epsom, again trying to take the German-occupied city of Caen.

The Western Front: American forces liberate Cherbourg

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 670+ aircraft attack on Vienna, Austria/Germany

The Eastern Front: During the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, Soviet forces take Petrozavodsk

The Italian Campaign:  San Marino is bombed by the Allies, under the belief that Axis forces had been stationed there

Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Crossbow, attack on V-Weapon sites: Heavy day-time British air raid, 320+ aircraft attack on various V-Weapon sites in France

Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Crossbow, attack on V-Weapon sites: Heavy night-time British air raid, 720+ aircraft attack on various V-Weapon sites in France

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 210+ aircraft attack on railway infrastructure at Vaires, France. Main railway stores & locomotive sheds damaged

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 300+ aircraft attack on Budapest and Brod, Hungary

Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Crossbow, attack on V-Weapon sites: Heavy day-time American air raid ###+ aircraft attack supply sites at SaintMartin-l'Hortier, Biennais, Beauvoir-Riviere, and Domleger, and a canal lock at Espierres

The Republican National Convention ended with the nomination of New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey

The Eastern Front: Hitler sacked Ernst Busch as commander of Army Group Centre and replaced him with Walter Model.

The Eastern Front: The Bobruysk Offensive, Mogilev Offensive and Vitebsk–Orsha Offensive all ended in Soviet victories.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Crossbow, attack on V-Weapon sites: Heavy day-time British air raid, 100+ aircraft attack on various V-Weapon sites in Wizernes, France

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 200+ aircraft attack on railway infrastructure at Blain & Metz, France.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 670+ aircraft attack on  Laon/Couvron, Laon/ Athies, and Juvincourt-et-Damary; rail bridges at Fismes and Anizy-le Chateau; fuel storage dump at Dugny

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 300+ aircraft attack on oil refineries at Bucharest

Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Crossbow, attack on V-Weapon sites: Heavy day-time British air raid, 320+ aircraft attack on various V-Weapon sites in France

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 200+ aircraft attack on gun batteries on Cap de la Hague, bridges and rail lines in Rennes-Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcourt-Vitre areas, and rail bridge at Oissel.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 390+ aircraft attack on aircraft assembly plant at Bernburg, FTR assembly factory at Oschersleben, aero engine works at Magdeburg-Neustadt, aircraft components factory at Aschersleben, airpark at Stenda, Germany

President Roosevelt signed a bill providing independence for the Philippines as soon as the Japanese were removed from the islands.

The Eastern Front: The Battle of Vyborg Bay began.

The Western Front: The last German forces on La Hague surrendered.

V1 outside Air Ministry in Aldwych Kills 48 Up to 100 V1s a day hitting London, 29 killed when V1 hit children home in Crockham Hill Kent

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 260+ aircraft attack on Villers-Bocage, France. Target was two German panzer divisions the 2nd & 9th forming to attack the junction between the British & American armies in Normandy. The attack was carried out with great care by the Master Bomber. Bombs were dropped with great accuracy & the planned German attack did not take place.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Crossbow, attack on V-Weapon sites: Heavy day-time British air raid, 100+ aircraft attack on various V-Weapon sites in Oisemont, France

Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Crossbow, attack on V-Weapon sites: Heavy night-time British air raid, 100+ aircraft attack on various V-Weapon sites in Vierzon, France

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 130+ aircraft attack on Montdidier, Evreux/Fauville, Conches, Le Culot, and Coxyde/Furnes