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LaGuardia will seek Estimate Bd authority for paving 1st 3 runways
W Cronkite of UP describes landing with airborne troops and fighting that followed
1944RocĂo Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (died 2006)[â ]
MarĂa del RocĂo Mohedano Jurado, better known as RocĂo Jurado, was a Spanish singer and actress. She was born in Chipiona (CĂĄdiz) and nicknamed "La mĂĄs grande".
1944Charles L. Veach, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (died 1995)[â ]
Charles Lacy Veach was a United States Air Force (USAF) fighter pilot and NASA astronaut.
1944Robert G. Cole, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1915)[â ]
Lieutenant Colonel Robert George Cole was an American soldier who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in the days following the D-Day Normandy invasion of World War II.
1944World War II: The British submarine HMSÂ Tradewind torpedoes Jun'yĆ Maru, killing 5,600, mostly slave labourers and POWs.[â ]
HMS Tradewind was a British submarine of the third group of the T class. She was built as P329 at Chatham, and launched on 11 December 1942. As of 2021 she is the only ship of the Royal Navy to have been named Tradewind, after the trade winds.
1944World War II: Operation Market Garden results in the liberation of Eindhoven.[â ]
Operation Market Garden was an Allied military operation during the Second World War fought in the German-occupied Netherlands from 17 to 25 September 1944. Its objective was to create a salient spanning 62 miles (100Â km) into German territory with a bridgehead over the Nederrijn, creating an Allied invasion route into northern Germany. This was to be achieved by two sub-operations: seizing nine bridges with combined American and British airborne forces ("Market") followed by British land forces swiftly following over the bridges ("Garden").
1944World War II: The Battle of Arracourt begins.[â ]
The Battle of Arracourt took place between U.S. and German armoured forces near the town of Arracourt, Lorraine, France between 18 and 29 September 1944, during the Lorraine Campaign of World War II. As part of a counteroffensive against recent U.S. advances in France, the German 5th Panzer Army had as its objective the recapture of Lunéville and the elimination of the XII Corps bridgehead over the Moselle River at Dieulouard.