War Supplement - 8/14 through 9/8/1944

1944-
8/14 - David Foil arrives in England.
8/15 - Operation Dragoon begins (Allied invasion of Southern France). Hitler states that this is the worst day of his life.
8/16 - German army begins a withdrawal from Southern France.
8/18 - Allieds fly 3,057 sorties against Falaise pocket in Southern France.
8/19 - French Resistance starts uprising in Paris.
8/20 - deGaulle returns to France.
8/25 - Paris is liberated. deGaulle retuns to Paris.
8/26 - Allied troops cross Seine and move east.
8/27 - RAF and more than 1,000 U.S. B-17s and B-24s attack in the first large-scale, daylight action over Germany.

9/1 - Patten takes Verdun.
9/3 - Brussels is liberated. National day of prayer is called in Britain for the 5th anniversary of the outbreak of the war. So far, the British causalities are reported as: 242,995 killed; 80,603 missing; 311,500 wounded; 290,381 captured.
9/4 - Antwerp is liberated.
9/6 - Victory in the "Battle of London" is proclaimed as V1 rockets are no longer being fired from France.
9/8 - V2 rockets hit London and Paris from Holland.