9 ago 1944



- US President Franklin Roosevelt informed Douglas MacArthur that MacArthur's plan to invade the Philippine Islands had been approved, which necessarily meant that Chester Nimitz's plan to land on Taiwan, thus bypassing the Philippine Islands, was rejected. ww2dbase [Pacific Strategy Conference | CPC]
- The Vyborg-Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest Soviet offensive against Finland, ended in a strategic stalemate. ww2dbase [CPC]
- The US Forest Service and the US Wartime Advertising Council released posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Austin Doyle became the commanding officer of USS Hornet, relieving William Sample. ww2dbase [Hornet (Essex-class) | CPC]
- Franklin Roosevelt disembarked the cruiser USS Baltimore and embarked the destroyer USS Cummings at Auke Bay, Alaska near Juneau. ww2dbase [Cummings | Baltimore | Franklin Roosevelt | Juneau | DS]
- The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against Ulm, Germany. ww2dbase [RAF Thurleigh | Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Ulm | DS]
- USS Tirante was launched at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, United States. ww2dbase [Tirante | Kittery, Maine | CPC]
- Franklin Roosevelt assigned Patrick Hurley to as an intermediary between Chiang Kaishek and Joseph Stilwell. ww2dbase [Patrick Hurley | Washington | CPC]
- Following the Port Chicago munitions explosion, the surviving members of the ordnance battalion were assigned to resume loading munitions at nearby Mare Island. 258 African-American sailors told their officers that they would obey any other order, but not that one. All faced charges, 50 for mutiny. ww2dbase [Port Chicago Naval Munitions Explosion | Vallejo, California | DS]
- Dwight Eisenhower moved his headquarters to France. ww2dbase [Dwight Eisenhower | TH]
- USS Barbero departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of for her first war patrol. ww2dbase [Barbero | Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | CPC]
- Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of 125th Construction Battalion (125th SeaBees) departed. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]
- Battleship USS New Mexico with cruisers USS San Francisco and USS St. Louis arrived at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | San Francisco | New Mexico | St. Louis | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]
- USS Pollack attacked a Japanese destroyer with four torpedoes west of the Caroline Islands; all torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Pollack | CPC]
- After sundown, No. 1586 (Polish Special Duties) Flight RAF dropped supplies in the Kampinos Forest outside of Warsaw, Poland. ww2dbase [Warsaw Uprising | CPC]
- A V-1 flying bomb exploded in the air above the town of Lamberhurst, Kent, England, United Kingdom after being shot at by a fighter, the bomb scattered 1-kilogram incendiary bombs. 91 squadron was officially taken off anti-V-1 operations and moved to RAF Hawkinge in Kent to re-equip with Spitfire LFIX fighters. The squadron had accounted for 184 of the bombs, and 2 more would be added whilst they trained in their new aircraft. The squadron's Spitfire XIV fighters were handed to 402 Squadron (RCAF) who commenced anti-V-1 operations three days later. ww2dbase [Vergeltungswaffe 1 | V-Weapons Campaign | Hawkinge, England | HM]




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