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Lt Col Tommy Tompkins and a platoon from the division scout company make the climb to the summit of Mt Tapochau. They hold an abandoned dugout against counter attacks and were then reinforced by Tompkins battalion.

Having suffered heavy losses in counter attacks on the previous two nights and under pressure from 27th ID offensive, Lieutenant General Yoshitsugu Saito abandons the southern airfield.

British 7th AD made an attempt to drive into the German flank through a gap in the front line and seize the town of Villers-Bocage. British were forced to withdraw after encountering heavy armored resistance.

The United States 2nd Marine Division, 4th Marine Division, and 27th Infantry Division defeated defending Japanese forces from the 43rd Division. The battle ended a suicidal, Banzai charge, that was the largest in the Pacific war.

The Soviet 30th Guards Corps opened the offensive across the Karelian Isthmuswith an assult on the Finnish 10th Division on the "Main Line" Valkeasaari sector. Soviet artillery fired over 80,000 rounds along the front.