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324 Lancasters, 218 Halifaxes, and 54 Stirlings attacked v-2 rocket development center. 40 aircraft were lost, 29 in the last wave to German fighters. The center was relocated to underground facilities at Mittelwerk.

A series of day and night bombing raids by the US 8th Air Force and RAF bomber command. The concentrated bombing of the Hamburg town center created firestorms that resulted in the death of at least 50,000 people.

The largest amphibious operation of the war in terms of men landed on the beaches and of frontage. Strategically, Husky achieved the goals set out for it by Allied planners. The Allies drove Axis air and naval forces from the island

At dawn 1,180 Jews are led to the city's Jewish cemetery in Okopysko and shot. A single survivor, Menachem Katz, escaped and described the massacre.

Operation Chastise was the official name for attacks carried out by RAF 617 Squadron on German dams using a specially developed "bouncing bomb". The Mohne and Eder dams were breached, causing catastrophic flooding of the Ruhr valley.