The Eastern Front: Soviet forces take Călărași on the Bulgarian frontier at Giurgiu. Moscow requested permission for their troops to enter Bulgarian territory.
The Pacific Campaign: The Battle of Lone Tree Hill ended in American victory
The Western Front: Canadian forces capture Dieppe, the site of the failed 1942 commando raid, and pressed on along the northern French coast.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 120+ aircraft attack on V-Weapon sites in northern, France.
Allied Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 480+ aircraft attacked Boara Pisani, railroad bridges at Tesica/Moravac, Mitrovica, and Kraljevo, railroad bridges at Szolnok, and Mezotur, Railway marshalling yards at Szajol, Debreczen, Berettyoujfalu, and Novi Sad, and aircraft factory at Nish.

Finland severed diplomatic relations with Germany and ordered all Germans to leave.
Konstantin Muraviev became the Prime Minister of Bulgaria.

The Western Front: Canadian forces took Saint-Valery-en-Caux and reached the River Somme.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 380+ aircraft attack the Kraljevo railroad bridge and railroad bridge at Mitrovica, the road bridge at Supovac, and 3 Railway marshalling yards at Nish.

Lipniak-Majorat massacre: German forces carry out a massacre of around 450 Poles, including many women and children, in the village of Lipniak-Majorat in occupied Poland.

Prime Minister Muraviev halted the execution of political prisoners in Bulgaria.

The Eastern Front: Finland and the Soviet Union agreed on a ceasefire at 8:00 a.m. the next morning.
The Eastern Front: German forces began Operation Birke to protect access to nickel in Finnish Lapland.
The Western Front: British forces capture Brussels, while American forces capture Tournai.
The Western Front: Gerd von Rundstedt was restored as Oberbefehlshaber West, replacing Walter Model.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 670+ aircraft attack on 6 airfields in Southern Netherlands
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 300+ aircraft attack Ludwigshafen/Opau synthetic oil plant.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 400+ aircraft attack gun batteries and defence installations in Brest area
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 300+ aircraft attack key escape routes of retreating German forces in the Balkans, and bomb rail comm and supply lines S from Budapest, 3 bridges in Belgrade area, bridges at Szajol and Szeged, and badly damaged ferry docks at Smederovo.

The final transport of Jews from Westerbork leaves for Auschwitz
German Light-Heavyweight Boxing Title Heinz Seidler (Germany) beat Richard Vogt (Germany) Pts 12, Dietrich-Echart Buehne, Berlin.

The Eastern Front: Soviet forces in Romania capture Brașov and Sinaia.
The Italian Campaign: The Battle of Gemmano began in Italy as part of the Allied assault on the Gothic Line
The Western Front: American forces take Bourg-en-Bresse.
The Western Front: British forces take Kortenberg and Leuven.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 650+ aircraft attack Stuttgart aero engine plant, Ludwigshafen synthetic oil plant, Karlsruhe and various targets of opportunity. 9 ftr gps fly spt and several gps strafe A/Fs. Ftrs claim 19 aerial combat victories. Nearly 150+ aircraft attack 5 gun emplacements in the Brest area.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 400+ aircraft attack submarines in Genoa harbour and hit comm in N Italy including Avisio viaduct, Railway marshalling yards at Trento, Bronzola, and Ora, and railroad bridges at Ora, Casarsa della Delizia, and Latisana.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 430+ aircraft attack communication targets in Hungary and N Italy to impede withdrawal from the lower Balkans and to disrupt railroad comm in Italian N. targets hit are 2 railroad bridges at Budapest and 1 each at Szolnok and Szob and a railroad bridge at Ferrara.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 360+ aircraft attack Eleusis, Kalamaki, and Tatoi aircraft factories, at Salonika, and harbour at Skaramanga. 
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 300+ aircraft attack strongpoints in the Brest area and coastal battery at Pointe du Grand Gouin.

Štefan Tiso replaced Vojtech Tuka as Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic.
The Soviet Union declared war on Bulgaria, which never attacked the USSR but was aligned with the Axis.

The Eastern Front: The Battle of Turda began in Romania.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 350+ aircraft attack on Le Havre

Sweden said it would bar entry to Nazis attempting to flee.
The Cornwall–Massena earthquake along the Saint Lawrence rift system in North America did $2 million in damage.

The Eastern Front: The Tartu Offensive ended in Soviet victory.
The Western Front: French forces capture Chalon-sur-Saône.
The Western Front: Polish forces liberate Ypres in Belgium.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 100+ aircraft attack on Emden, Germany. The bombing was accurate and Emden was seen to be a mass of flames
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 340+ aircraft attack on Le Havre. Targetting German fortifications & transport
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 540+ aircraft attack communication targets in Romania, Yugoslavia and Hungary and troop and tank concentrations in S Yugoslavia. targets include 2 Railway marshling yards at Oradea, and 2 nearby bridges over Sebes Koros R, M/Y at Novi Sad, bridge at Belgrade, tanks and troops at Leskovac, and Nyiregyhaza.

The British government relaxed blackout restrictions and suspended compulsory training for the Home Guard.

The Pacific Campaign: Shin'yō Maru incident: The Japanese cargo ship SS Shin'yō Maru was torpedoed and sunk in the Sulu Sea by American submarine USS Paddle while carrying 750 American prisoners of war aboard. 688 perished.

Hungary declared war on Romania and crossed into southern Transylvania.
Members of Vichy France's collaborationist government were relocated to Germany where an enclave was established for them in Sigmaringen Castle.

V-Weapons Campaign: Start of V-2 weapon campaign with 2 missiles launched at Paris. Both missiles crashed shortly after launch.

The Italian Campaign: The Italian ocean liner SS Rex was sunk at Trieste by an air raid of British Bristol Beaufighters.

Bulgaria accepted an armistice with the Soviet Union. Bulgaria switches sides and declares war on Germany
The Belgian government in exile led by Hubert Pierlot returned to Brussels from London.

V-Weapons Campaign: Start of V-2 weapon campaign aimed at the UK. First hit Staveley Road, Chiswick, London killing 3 people. The second landed in a field in Epping, Essex. The British Government would blame the unexpected explosion of V-2s on gas mains to not spread panic. The British public who sometimes caught sight of these supersonic missiles arriving soon dubbed them 'flying gas mains'.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 330+ aircraft attack on Le Havre. Targetting German fortifications & transport
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 950+ aircraft attack an oil refinery, tank and armoured vehicle factory, and ordnance plant in the Rhineland
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 350+ aircraft attack railroad bridges at Brod and Belgrade and Railway marshalling yards at Sarajevo and Nish.

A coup d'état in Bulgaria overthrew the government of Konstantin Muraviev after one week in power and replaced it with a government of the Fatherland Front led by Kimon Georgiev.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 270+ aircraft attack on Le Havre. Because of poor visibility raid was called off
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 110+ aircraft attack on Monchengladbach, Germany. Devastating raid on target
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 350+ aircraft attack Mannheim. Mainz, armament plant at Dusseldorf, Germany

Operation Paravane: Attack on German warship Tirpitz anchored Kaafjord in northern Norway begins. 38 British Lancaster heavy bombers fly to Yagodnik in the Soviet Union loaded with Tallboy bombs, a 12,000 Ibs (5 ton) earthquake bomb developed by the British aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis. From Yagodnik they are to launch an attack.

The Western Front: American forces take St. Vith and reached the German border after completing the liberation of Luxembourg.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 900+ aircraft attack on Le Havre. Targetting German fortifications & transport
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 1,000+ aircraft attack aircraft, tank, motor transport and engine plants, and jet-propulsion units plant in Germany, along with Ulm and Heilbronn and several other secondary targets
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 350+ aircraft attack 5 ordnance depots and SE industrial area in Vienna and 2 oil refineries in the area

Communist leader Bolesław Bierut assumed the presidency of a new provisional government of Poland.

The Western Front: American forces cross the border into Nazi Germany for the first time. At 16:30 hours, a 7-person patrol led by Sgt. Warner W. Holzinger of the 2nd Platoon, Troop B, 85th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, 5th Armored Division, crossed the river Our at Stolzembourg, Luxembourg and reached Keppeshausen. They studied the pillbox area and returned safely to Stolzembourg at 18:50 having encountered no German military personnel. This was also the first advance through enemy lines in Germany.
The Western Front: Canadian forces reach the Belgian coastal village of Zeebrugge.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 220+ aircraft attack on Le Havre. Canadian forces attacked after raid & the German garrison surrendered the next day
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 380+ aircraft attack on German synthetic oil plants at Castrop-Rauxel, Kamen & Gelsenkirchen.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 380+ aircraft attack on Darmstadt, Germany. An accurate raid devested the city.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 110+ aircraft attack armament plant at Chemnitz, and land at USSR bases.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 850+ aircraft attack 6 synthetic oil plants, an ordnance depot, an engine works, a tyre plant, and numerous other scattered targets across Germany.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 360+ aircraft attack gun positions and strongpoints in Metz area.

The Pacific Campaign: The Japanese passenger ship Rakuyō Maru was sunk in the South China Sea by American submarine Sealion while transporting 1,317 Australian and British prisoners of war. A total of 1,159 POWs died.

Romania signed an armistice with the Allies in Moscow. Romania agreed to provide twelve divisions to fight Germany, provide goods and raw materials to the Soviet Union, ban all fascist organizations, repeal anti-Jewish laws and revert to their 1940 borders. The Soviet Union took control of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina.
The Second Quebec Conference began in Quebec City, Canada. Roosevelt and Churchill discuss Pacific war plans and the completion of the European war.

The Italian Campaign: American forces assault the Gothic Line in the Apennine Mountains.
The Western Front: Canadian forces capture Le Havre when 12,000 German troops surrendered
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 110+ aircraft attack on Munster, Germany. Target described as a sea of fire
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 410+ aircraft attack on German synthetic oil plants at Dortmund, Scholven/Buer & Wanne-Eickel.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 380+ aircraft attack on Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany. Accurate raid fires burned for 3 days
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 380+ aircraft attack on Darmstadt, Germany. Accurate raid firestorms occurred, and heavy loss of life & property.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 800+ aircraft attack 4 synthetic oil plants, 2 oil refineries, an oil depot, an aero engine works, and numerous targets across central and North West Germany
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 330+ aircraft attack Lechfeld aircraft factory, Munich/ Allach engine works, and Wasserburg jet aircraft factory

World Bantamweight Boxing Title Manuel Ortiz (USA) beat Luis Castillo (Mexico) Ko 4, Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles.

The Balkern Front: The Battle of Meligalas between the Greek People's Liberation Army and the Security Battalions begins in Greece.
The Eastern Front: Soviet aircraft began dropping supplies to the Home Army in Warsaw overnight.
The Eastern Front: Soviet forces take the Warsaw suburb of Praga.
The Italian Campaign: The Battle of Rimini began.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 140+ aircraft attack on Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The main target was the Nordstern oil plant. Large explosions were seen through the smoke screen over the target
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 100+ aircraft attack on Osnabruck, Germany. The main target the railway sidings damaged
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 70+ aircraft attack taking off from Soviet bases, to bomb steel and armament works at Diosgyor and proceed bases in Italy. 
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 750+ aircraft attack 3 synthetic oil plants, 2 aero engine factories, 3 aircraft motor works, an ordnance depot, a fuel depot, and several cities and isolated in Central and South West Germany.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 350+ aircraft attack Auschwitz oil and rubber works and Odertal and Blechhammer oil refineries, hit the Cracow-Auschwitz area and bomb Vrutky.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 100+ aircraft attack Avisio viaduct, Mezzocorona and Ora railroad bridges.

Operation Paravane: The attack on German warship Tirpitz was called off as the target was covered in clouds

The Eastern Front: Soviet forces began the Baltic Offensive and the Riga Offensive.
The Eastern Front: Soviet forces began the Battle of Păuliș in Romania between Hungarian and Soviet/Romanian forces.
The Italian Campaign: Canadian and British forces push through the Gothic Line and capture Coriano.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 140+ aircraft attack on Wilhelmshaven, Germany. Attack recalled no reason given
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 35+ aircraft attack on Wassenaar, Netherlands. The main target was an ammunition dump, possibly a V-2 store

The Pacific Campaign: The Battle of Morotai between Allied and Japanese forces began in the Maluku Islands.
The Pacific Campaign: The Battle of Peleliu began between American and Japanese forces on the island of Peleliu.
The Western Front: German frogmen carried out a successful raid on the floodgates at Antwerp and rendered the port unusable to the Allies for six weeks.

Operation Paravane: Damaged by bombs from British Lancaster aircraft, in Katfjord, Norway, 2 Tallboy earthquake bombs hit the forecastle & many near-misses damaged engines limiting the ship to 10 knots on 15/09/1944. Coming from the wrong direction, the east, the German smoke screen was caught by surprise and was late starting & covering the Tirpitz.

The French provisional government in Paris said it would try Vichy war criminals and issued warrants for the arrests of Philippe Pétain and his cabinet.

The Balkern Front: The Battle of Meligalas between the Greek People's Liberation Army and the Security Battalions ends, and is followed by a massacre of the captive Security Battalions.
The Eastern Front: The Lapland War begins between Germany and Finland. The Germans carried out Operation Tanne Ost to capture the Finnish island of Suursaari before it could fall into Soviet hands. The operation was a complete failure for the Germans with the Finns taking 1,231 prisoners.
The Italian Campaign: The Battle of Gemmano in Italy ended in Allied victory.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 490+ aircraft attack on Kiel, Germany. City centre devastated

Vacant British & Vacant British Empire World Heavyweight Boxing Title Jack London (GB) beat Freddie Mills (GB) Pts 15, King's Hall, Belle Vue, Manchester.

In accordance with a call from the Danish National Council in London (not a government in exile but an association of free Danes), workers in Denmark went on strike starting at noon to protest the transfer of about 190 Danish political prisoners to Germany. The strike mostly affected the transportation system.

The Eastern Front: Soviet forces occupy the Bulgarian capital of Sofia.
The Western Front: Adolf Hitler decides to go through with the Ardennes Offensive in his Prussian headquarters (the Wolf's Lair). This would become the Battle of the Bulge.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Market Garden. Heavy night-time British air raid, 200+ aircraft attack on airfields Hopsten, Leeuwarden, Steenwijk & Rheine, Netherlands

Wartime Football International: England 2-2 Wales, Anfield Road, Liverpool

Operation Paravane ended when a bomb hit the German battleship Tirpitz, disabling her and causing the Germans to tow her south to Tromsø where she would be sunk in Operation Catechism two months later.

The Pacific Campaign: The Battle of Angaur began between American and Japanese forces on the island of Angaur in the Palau Islands.

The Eastern Front: Soviet forces began the Tallinn Offensive.
The Italian Campaign: The Battle of San Marino began during the Italian Campaign.
The Western Front: Canadian forces began Operation Wellhit to take the fortified town of Boulogne in northern France.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 760+ aircraft attack on Le Havre. Canadian forces start an attack on the city
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 800+ aircraft attack flak batteries and installations in the Netherlands.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 440+ aircraft attack 2 oil refineries and 4 Railway marshalling yards in the Budapest area in an attempt to hit Germany's principal remaining oil supply and to aid Soviet and other friendly forces on S Russian front by pounding the focal rail traffic point in that area.
The Western Front: Operation Market Garden began when Allied paratroopers landed in the Netherlands and British forces advance from Belgium. The Battle of Arnhem begins in the Netherlands.

British Gliders at Arnhem.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Market Garden. Heavy day-time British air raid, 120+ aircraft attack on German flak positions in the Flushing area, Netherlands 
Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Market Garden. Heavy night-time British air raid, 240+ aircraft sweep the Dutch coast to draw up German fighters. Challenge not accepted by Germans

30,000 Dutch rail workers obeyed a call from General Eisenhower to go on strike to paralyze the German transport system in Holland. Many of the workers went into hiding.
Blackout restrictions were relaxed in London.

The Japanese hell ship Jun'yō Maru was sunk off Sumatra by the British submarine Tradewind with the loss of 5,620 lives, the worst maritime disaster in history up to that time.

The Eastern Front: American aircraft dropped 1,284 containers of supplies to the Home Army in Warsaw, but only 228 fell on Polish-controlled territory. This was the only major supply drop of the war that the Soviets allowed the Western Allies to carry out.
The Western Front: The Battle of Arracourt begins between American & German forces near the French town of Arracourt.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 200+ aircraft attack on Bremerhaven, Germany. Accurate raid extensive damage to the city
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 460+ aircraft attack Subotica and Szeged Railway marshalling yards and railroad bridges at Novi Sad, Belgrade, Szob, and Budapest.
The Western Front: Operation Market Garden. British & American forces take Eindhoven.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Market Garden. Heavy day-time American air raid 250+ aircraft drop supplies to Allied forces in the Netherlands.
The Western Front: Operation Market Garden British forces push towards the bridge at Arnhem. Son Bridge was blown up by Germans preventing Americans from taking it. American forces join up with advancing British forces at Eindhoven

British forces at Oosterbeek

The Western Front: American forces take Brest.
The Western Front: The Battle of Hürtgen Forest begins between American & German forces in the Hürtgen Forest along the border of Belgium and Germany.
The Continuation War: Finland and the Soviet Union came to an end with the signing of the Moscow Armistice.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 230+ aircraft attack on Monchengladbach/Rheydt, Germany. Devastating raid on target
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 800+ aircraft attack dispatched against targets in NW Germany. Weather prevents about half from bombing primary targets but most manage to bomb secondaries or targets of opportunity. 
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 650+ aircraft attack 10 Railway marshalling yards and several bridges, railroads, factories, barges, storage areas, city areas and numerous scattered targets of opportunity in NW Germany.
The Western Front: Operation Market Garden British forces push to capture the northern end of the bridge at Arnhem. British forces take Oosterbeek. American forces make contact with advancing British forces at Nijmegen

German SS and Police Leader of Denmark Günther Pancke proclaimed a state of emergency and ordered the Danish police disarmed to stop the Danish transportation strike from becoming a general strike. This measure brought about a shooting in front of the castle in Copenhagen when the royal guards thought they would be disarmed as well, and eight people were killed. Striking would continue for two more days.

The Eastern Front: Soviet forces captured the island of Suur-Tytärsaari in the Gulf of Finland.
The Italian Campaign: British & British Empire forces win the Battle of San Marino ended in Allied victory.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 640+ aircraft attack on Calais, France.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 500+ aircraft attack 3 railroad bridges at Budapest, 2 Railway marshalling yards at Hatvan and 1 at Gyor and bomb Malacky aircraft factory and Bratislava oil district.
The Western Front: Operation Market Garden. British & American forces take Nijmegen.

The Western Front: Operation Market Garden British forces failed to take the southern side of the bridge at Arnhem. German forces cut British forces in two at Arnhem, leaving the forces on the bridge cut off from their HQ at Oosterbeek

British forces at Oosterbeek

San Marino declared war on Germany.
The Eastern Front: The Battle of Porkuni was fought between Estonians serving in the Red Army and Estonian pro-independence and Waffen-SS units. The battle resulted in a Soviet victory.
The Italian Campaign: Canadian, Greek & New Zealand forces win the Battle of Rimini.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 450+ aircraft attack the synthetic oil plant at Ludwigshafen/Opau, railway marshalling yards at Koblenz and Mainz, and targets of opportunity in Rhineland
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 340+ aircraft attack Railway marshalling yards at Debrecen, Bekescsaba, and Brod, railroad and highway bridges at Baja, in Kiskore area, and at Tiszafured, plus Novi Sad railroad bridge.
The Western Front: Operation Market Garden Polish forces parachute south of the Rhine, but were unable to cross the river.

V-Weapons Campaign: Captured German General Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma discretely mentions to General Ludwig Crüwell about the V-2 development, whilst being bugged by MI 19 (Military Intelligence 19),  at Trent Park the Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre. Here in in this north London manor house  POWs, exclusively senior officers were kept in very comfortable conditions, whilst being expertly questioned. They were also secretly monitored & bugged. It was here that the British heard about the development of the V-2 rocket & its propensity.
The Eastern Soviet forces capture Tallinn.
The Italian Campaign: American forces capture the Il Giogo pass on the Gothic Line in Italy.
The Western Front: Operation Undergo starts with Canadian forces attacking the French port of Calais.
The Western Front: Operation Wellhit ends with Canadian forces taking Boulogne
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 360+ aircraft attack NE industrial area of Munich and Munich/Riem aircraft factory.
The Western Front: Operation Market Garden German forces push towards the bridge at Arnhem & Oosterbeek.

Allied Bomber Offensive: An RAF bombing raid destroyed an aqueduct on the Dortmund-Ems Canal and brought a halt to the shipment of prefabricated U-boat parts via this route.
The Eastern Front: The Soviet Army crossed into Hungarian territory.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 140+ aircraft attack on Dortmund-Ems Canal, Germany. 2 Tallboy bombs, a 12,000 Ibs (5 ton) earthquake bombs cause most damage to the banks of the canal. This raid brought a halt to the shipment of prefabricated U-boat parts via this route. Tallboy bombs, a 12,000 Ibs (5 ton) earthquake bomb
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 550+ aircraft attack on Neuss, Germany. Devastating raid on target
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 110+ aircraft attack on Munster, Germany.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 150+ aircraft attack Brux synthetic oil refinery and Wels
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 300+ aircraft attack communication targets in Italy, including the viaduct at Venzone and road and railroad bridges at Casarsa della Delizia, Pinzano al Tagliamento, Ponte di Piave, Latisana, San Dona di Piave, and Susegana.
The Western Front: Operation Market Garden German forces attempt to force the British away from the river at Arnhem & Oosterbeek.

Italy's high commissioner for the punishment of Fascist crimes Mario Berlinguer said that he would seek a court order to reopen the case of the 1924 murder of Socialist politician Giacomo Matteotti.

The Western Front: British forces capture Deurne, Netherlands.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 190+ aircraft attack on Calais, France.
The Western Front: Operation Market Garden. British & Polish forces fail in their attempt to cross to the north of the river.

The Eastern Front: Soviet forces capture the Baltic Sea port of Haapsalu.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 870+ aircraft attack on Calais, France.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 100+ aircraft attack 3 Railway marshalling yards and a synthetic oil plant at Ludwigshafen and Koblenz, an industrial area of Frankfurt/Main and several targets of opportunity.
The Western Front: Operation Market Garden. British forces at Oosterbeek evacuated the north bank during the night.

Harvard Medical School announced that women would be accepted as students starting next fall.

In Caserta, the Greek government-in-exile agreed with resistance groups who acknowledged its authority.

The Eastern Front: The Tallinn Offensive ends in Soviet victory.
The Italian Campaign: British forces cross the Rubicon.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 720+ aircraft attack on Calais, France.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 230+ aircraft attack on Karlsruhe, Germany. Devastating raid on the city
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 400+ aircraft attack 2 Railway marshalling yards, 2 aircraft plants, a steel works, and 2 aircraft factories at Osnabruck, Hamm, Bremen, Rheine, and Hesepe, plus 3 targets of opportunity in NW Germany.
The Western Front: Operation Market Garden. The Battle of Arnhem ended after the British evacuated the north bank during the night.

German forces in Arnhem.

The Balkern Front: Soviet forces and Yugoslav Partisans crossed the border into Albania.
The Eastern Front: Finnish forces captured Pudasjärvi in northern Finland.
The Pacific Campaign: The Japanese troop transport and hospital ship Ural Maru was torpedoed and sunk in the South China Sea by the American submarine Flasher with the loss of some 2,000 lives.
The Western Front: The Battle of Metz begins in France.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 340+ aircraft attack on Calais, France.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 170+ aircraft attack on Bottrop, Germany. Synthetic-oil plant target was hit
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 170+ aircraft attack on Sterkrade, Germany. Synthetic-oil plant target was hit
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 220+ aircraft attack on Kaiserslautern, Germany. Devastating raid on city, firestorm event
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 1,100+ aircraft attack 2 Railway marshalling yards, 2 synthetic oil plants, 2 motor works, and a tank and armoured vehicle plant, at Cologne, Ludwigshafen, Mainz, and Kassel, and targets of opportunity in W Germany.

The Balkern Front: Soviet, Yugoslav Partisan and Bulgarian forces began the Belgrade Offensive.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 490+ aircraft attack on Calais, France.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 1,000+ aircraft attack 2 synthetic oil plants, a motor plant, and a city area in or near Magdeburg, Kassel, and Merseburg plus targets of opportunity in C Germany including Eschwege aircraft factory

British Prime Minster Winston Churchill made a speech in the House of Commons reviewing the progress of the war and announcing that a Jewish brigade would be formed to take part in active operations. "I know there is a vast number of Jews serving with our forces and the American forces throughout all the armies, but it seems to me indeed appropriate that a special Jewish unit of that race which has suffered indescribable torment from the Nazis should be represented as a distinct formation among the forces gathered for their final overthrow," Churchill explained. "I have no doubt that they will not only take part in the struggle but also in the occupation which will follow."

The Balkern Front: Soviet, Yugoslav Partisan and Bulgarian forces began the Belgrade Offensive.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 490+ aircraft attack on Calais, France.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 1,000+ aircraft attack 2 synthetic oil plants, a motor plant, and a city area in or near Magdeburg, Kassel, and Merseburg plus targets of opportunity in C Germany including Eschwege aircraft factory

A roundup in Bratislava orchestrated by Alois Brunner captures 1,800 Jews and puts an end to one of the most successful underground Jewish organizations during the Holocaust, the Bratislava Working Group. The Jews are deported to Auschwitz, where most are murdered.

The Eastern Front: Soviet forces began the Moonsund Landing Operation, an amphibious assault as part of the Baltic Offensive.

The Western Front: The Battle of Arracourt ended in an American victory.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 400+ aircraft attack railway marshalling yards and rail sidings at Prum, Euskirchen, and Bingen, dragon's teeth antitank defences near Webenheim, and Railway marshalling yards, rail sidings, warehouses and barracks at Julich and Bitburg.

World Featherweight Boxing Title Willie Pep (USA) beat Chalky Wright (USA) Pts 15, Madison Square Garden, New York City.

The Eastern Front: Soviet forces started the secondary stage of the Lublin–Brest Offensive concluded with Soviet objectives met.
The Western Front: Canadian forces take Calais after the besieged German garrison surrender.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 140+ aircraft attack on Bottrop, Germany. Synthetic oil plants are the target
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 140+ aircraft attack on Sterkrade, Germany. Synthetic oil plants are the target
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 750+ aircraft attack 3 Railway marshalling yards and an aircraft factory at Bielefeld, Hamm, Handorf, and Munster, Munster city area and several other targets in the area is bombed
The Western Front: German forces commenced a counter-offensive to retake the Nijmegen salient, which had been taken by the Allies in

British forces defend the Nijmegan Bridge

Operation Market Garden. German frogmen manage to blow up the Nijmegen Railway Bridge