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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (26th August 1944)
In the Arctic...
Soviet survey ship Nord is sunk by U-957

In the Baltic...
Soviet vessel T-45 is sunk by U-745  

On the Russian Front...
37th Army of Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front reaches Galati on the Danube
German 6th Army and Group Meith, unable to battle their way out of encirclements, fight on
Six Kriegsmarine sub-chasers are scuttled off Kaliakra to avoid capture

In Paris...
De Gaulle, accompanied by Juin and Leclerc, leads a triumphant parade from the Arc de Triomphe down the Champs Elysees. An assassination attempt on De Gaulle fails

On the Western Front...
Hitler orders Luftwaffe and V-weapon attacks against Paris and counterattacks on the ground to recapture the city
Canadian 1st Army begins crossing the Seine River south of Rouen overnight 
British 2nd Army expands its bridgehead across the Seine River at Vernon 
US 1st Army mops up in Paris and advances east
US 3rd Army, advances toward Chateau-Thierry, but is running low on fuel 
VIII Corps of US 3rd Army continues to assault Brest
US 7th Army advances toward Montelimar in an attempt to cut off the German withdrawal up Rhone valley 
French Army B captures Toulon and continues assaulting Marseille

In the English Channel...
British vessel Ashmun J. Clough is sunk by U-989 
Kriegsmarine 8th Gunboat Carrier Flotilla attacked by Allied PT boats, destroyers, destroyer escorts, and MTBs overnight, and three dun-carriers are sunk

In the Bay of Biscay...
U-180 is sunk by a mine

In Bulgaria...
Bulgarian forces are ordered to begin disarming German troops 

In Greece...
German garrisons begin withdrawing from Aegean and Ionian Islands

In Yugoslavia...
A US intelligence mission arrives at Draza Mihailovic's royalist partisan headquarters 

In Italy...
Churchill meets with Pope Pius XII, then generals Anders and Alexander
British 8th Army advances across the Metauro River 

In Washington DC...
Physicist Niels Bohr meets with President Roosevelt in unsuccessful effort to convince the US to share information about the atomic bomb with Moscow  

In the Pacific...
Admiral William "Bull" Halsey replaces Admiral Spruance, and US 5th Fleet is redesignated as 3rd Fleet, with all task forces and task groups renumbered accordingly 

In Burma...
Indian 36th Infantry Division attacks Pinbaw 

Today's Air Raids...
Baltic Sea minelaying by RAF Bomber Command
Gelsenkirchen, Ludwigshafen, Emmerich, Salzbergen, Dulmen, transportation routes and targets of opportunity in Germany by US 8th Air Force
Kiel, Koenigsberg, Berlin and Hamburg, Germany by RAF Bomber Command
Eindhoven, Netherlands by US 8th Air Force
Paris by the Luftwaffe
Bucharest and Giurgiu, Romania by US 15th Air Force 
Borovnica, Yugoslavia by US 15th Air Force
Avisio, Latisana, and Venzone, Italy on transportation routes by US 15th Air Force
Kuril Islands by US 11th Air Force
Pagan Island, Aguijan Island, Yap Island, Woleai Atoll, Koror airfield, Peleliu airfield and Iwo Jima by US 7th Air Force 
Sarmi, Suain, and Wewak, New Guinea by US FEAF 
Ceram Island and Ambon Island by US FEAF
Amoy, Wenchow (aka Yungchia), Sincheng, Yangtien, and military targets in China by US 14th Air Force

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
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3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION
With Son off on sleepover, an opportunity for full quality time with Missus was duly taken advantage of, and a proper "Honeymoon Day" was thoroughly enjoyed! More of the same is expected today. It is a day to relish rather than reflect.

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
Are you making the best use of your time?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Dull, damp and drizzly start
Dry thereafter with cloud thinning out
Prolonged sunny intervals from mid-afternoon
Dry with clear spells overnight
A moderate north-easterly will ease after dusk
Max Temp = 15 degC
Min Temp = 12 degC
Sunrise at 06:04
Sunset at 20:12

Weathertrack: A depression off Cornwall will rapidly dissipate. High pressure north of Scotland will intensify and expand over Britain. A following depression Mid-Atlantic will track east towards the English Channel
Air Pressure: 1007 millibars and rising

6. TODAY'S ONELINER
Staff at the sperm bank gathered in the car park for a fire drill before the alarm went off. It was a premature evacuation. 

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!  
Ed Byrne on the Irish smoking law 

8. TRIVIA
Book-burning campaigns took place in German cities between March and June 1933, with senior academics and university students incinerating books deemed to contain “un-German” ideas. Authors targeted by the book-burning campaign included Jack London, H.G. Wells, Thomas Mann, Sigmund Freud, and Albert Einstein. A century before Hitler, the German poet Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) predicted: “Where one burns books, one will, in the end, burn people.”   

9. ZEN WISDOM
If you failed yesterday, strive to win today. If you were defeated today, strive to win tomorrow.