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Soviet offensive in the Baltics
Monday, July 10, 1944 www.onwar.com
On the Eastern Front... The Soviet 2nd Baltic Front (Yeremenko) launches an offensive along a 90-mile frontage, east of Idritsa. Soviet forces capture Slonim from German forces of Army Group Center.
From Berlin... Hitler refuses a request by Field Marshal Model, commanding the shattered Army Group Center, to allow Army Group North to withdraw behind the Dvina. The intent is to bolster the defenses of Army Group Center and prevent Army Group North being cut off by the Soviet drive into the Baltics.
On the Western Front... British 8th Corps (part of 2nd Army) begins new attacks toward Evrecy. Eterville is captured.
In New Guinea... Around Aitape, Japanese forces begin new attacks along the line of the Driniumor River.
In Washington... Free French President de Gaulle continues talks with American representatives.
In the United States... The Bretton Woods conference continues.
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July 10th, 1944 (SATURDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: The USAAF’s Eighth Air Force in England flies Mission 465: Six B-17s drop leaflets in France and the Netherlands during the night while 12 B-24s fly CARPETBAGGER missions during the night.
Repair ships HMS Moray Firth and Mullion Cove launched.
FRANCE: British VIII Corps begins an attack toward Evrecy.
Normandy: Montgomery orders the British Second Army to attack east of Caen (Operation Goodwood) and the US First Army to secure St. Lo.
The 2nd Battalion of the US 358th Regiment of the 90th Infantry Division are cut off at the summit of Hill 122 and surrounded by German paratroopers. Their commander Colonel Jacob Bealke, calls for urgent tank support. A platoon of four tanks from the 712th broke through to his position and a plan was hatched for the four tanks to lead Company K down off the hill, with the rest of the battalion to follow. Company K suffered 80 percent casualties, and the four tanks ran into well-concealed anti-tank guns and were all knocked out, but not before breaking the resistance and providing what some historians of the 90th consider to be the turning point of the seesaw battle for the Foret de Mont Castre, which had raged for seven days. (Aaron Elson)(154)
USAAF Ninth Air Force fighters bomb and strafe gun positions, bridges, a rail overpass, infantry concentrations, and highway junctions, and cover the battle area.
ITALY: Naik Yeshwant Ghadge (b.1921), 5th Mahratta Light Infantry, rushed and wiped out a machine-gun nest before falling to a German sniper. (Victoria Cross)
U.S.S.R.: Hitler refuses Model’s (Army Group North) request to position Army Group Center behind the Dvina river.
MARIANAS ISLANDS: In the Mariana Islands, Seventh Air Force P-47 Thunderbolts based on Saipan hit troops and gun positions on Tinian Island. B-24s, staging through Eniwetok Atoll, pound Truk Atoll during the night of 9/10 July and again during the day attempting to stop Japanese aircraft from using the Atoll to attack shipping off Guam.
COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES: Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) Corsairs attack Japanese shipping in Keravia Bay, Rabaul. sinking an auxiliary submarine chaser.
NEW GUINEA: Japanese troops attack US forces across the Wewak river.
U.S.A.: “The Man Called X”, starring Herbert Marshall, debuts on CBS radio. This 30-minute show broadcast on Mondays at 9:30 PM Eastern Time, is sponsored by Lockheed Aircraft. Herbert Marshall plays Ken Thurston, “the man called X,” an international troubleshooter sent wherever intrigue lurks and danger was the byword. One of the supporting actors on the show was William Conrad while the announcer was John McIntire. The show switched to the NBC Blue Network (which became ABC in late 1944) on Saturday 9 September at 10:30 PM Eastern. During the summer of 1945, the show was broadcast by NBC on Tuesdays at 10:00 PM Eastern. The last broadcast was on 20 May 1952.
Destroyer USS Benner laid down.
Aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea laid down.
Submarines USS Cutlass and Runner laid down.
Minesweeper USS Method commissioned.