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• USS Franklin crossed the Equator. ww2dbase [Franklin | CPC]
• Indian 4th Division captured San Marino in the early afternoon. In nearby Italy, Canadian troops broke through German lines along the Ausa River. At Rimini, Italy, Greek troops reached the southern outskirts of the city. ww2dbase [Gothic Line Offensive | TH, CPC]
• British XXX Corps linked up with US airborne troops at Nijmegen, the Netherlands; nearby, Geldrop, Someren, and Terneuzen were captured by Allied troops. ww2dbase [Operation Market Garden | TH]

• Hunter-Killer Task Group 22.2 centered around escort carrier USS Card and escorts arrived in Bermuda for four days of anti-submarine exercises that included drills with a friendly Italian submarine. ww2dbase [Card | Port Royal Bay | DS]

• From his headquarters in Chongqing, China, Milton Miles sent SACO's first comprehensive weather map to US Navy Pacific Fleet Command. These reports would continue daily until the end of the war for the planning of Leyte, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa invasions. ww2dbase [Milton Miles | Chongqing | CPC]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Surabaya, Java. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Surabaya, Java | CPC]

• USS Tunny departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Tunny | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• Landing ship No. 142 was launched. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]
• Patrol Boat No. 102 entered No. 3 drydock of the Hitachi Zosen Shipyard at Mukaishima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan for the installation of anti-aircraft weaponry, depth charger throwers, sonar, and radar. ww2dbase [Stewart | Mukaishima, Hiroshima | CPC]

• Submarine USS Saury departed Majuro on her eleventh war patrol with an assigned patrol area off the Ryukyu Islands. ww2dbase [Saury | Majuro | DS]

• USS Whale arrived at waters southeast of Taiwan. ww2dbase [Whale | CPC]

• Kamoi departed Talampulan, Palawan, Philippine Islands at 0617 hours and arrived at Manila at 2122 hours. ww2dbase [Kamoi | Talampulan, Palawan | CPC]

• UIT-24 arrived in Singapore. ww2dbase [Comandante Cappellini | Singapore | CPC]

• German Air Force III/KG3 flew 21 sorties and 68 Squadron RAF was vectored to a position over the Dutch coastal Islands. A Mosquito aircraft flown by Flight Sergeant John Jenkins failed to return. It was presumed that the aircraft was brought down by the explosion of its target, which was a V-1 flying bomb. One of the V-1 flying bombs launched by the German bombers impacted on the beach next to the perimeter of the Experimental Radar Facility at Bawdsey Manor near Felixstowe eastern United Kingdom. One that fell in a farmer's field at Chediston in the County of Suffolk had the number 701422 and another that destroyed 3 houses at Hacheston near Ipswich in the same County was 701427. This numbering only appeared on the air launched bombs. ww2dbase [V-Weapons Campaign | Vergeltungswaffe 1 | England | HM]

• The FR Fireball fighter took its first piston-jet mix-powered flight. ww2dbase [FR Fireball | CPC]

20 Sep 1944 Interactive Map