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D M Nelson issues order; items to be released listed
relief expected; 50th consecutive day temperature reaches 70 or over; temperature chart
Allied planes raid Manokwari; sweep southwest coast of Netherlands New Guinea; Allied air and naval patrols destroy barges and supply trucks, Geelvink Bay and MacClur Gulf areas
Moscow repts USSR 16-mi advance toward Riga Gulf and Antsla capture; other units take Tsooru, Kaku and Verhulitsa; Moscow repts USSR repulsing of Ger counterattacks in Raseinai area of Lithuania and mass Ger killings; map
1944Dimitris Sioufas, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister of Health (died 2019)[†]
Dimitris Sioufas was a Greek lawyer and New Democracy politician.
1944World War II: Operation Dragoon: Allied forces land in southern France.[†]
Operation Dragoon, known as Débarquement de Provence in French, was the code name for the landing operation of the Allied invasion of Provence on 15 August 1944. Although initially designed to be executed in conjunction with Operation Overlord, the June 1944 Allied landing in Normandy, the lack of enough resources led to the cancellation of the second landing. By July 1944 the landing was reconsidered, as the clogged-up ports in Normandy did not have the capacity to adequately supply the Allied forces. Concurrently, the high command of the French Liberation Army pushed for a revival of the operation, which would involve large numbers of French troops. As a result, the operation was finally approved in July to be executed in August.