The US 36th Infantry Division captures Grenoble without any opposition.

Light cruiser HMS Mauritius and destroyers HMS Ursa and Iroquois engaged in Operation KINETIC patrol off Gironde, France. These patrols were designed to close the resupply routes to isolate German garrisons along the Atlantic sea coast. In the span of 2 hrs they encountered and engaged 2 small German coastal convoys. At 0200 they engaged 4 enemy vessels at a range of 2 miles. An armed trawler and 2 small merchantmen were sunk and a minesweeper was forced to run aground while under heavy fire. At 0351 they engaged another 4 enemy ships. This time 2 armed trawlers and 2 small merchant ships were sunk. In all, in 2 nights (14 Aug and 22 Aug) the 3 ships had sunk the minesweeper M385 (540 tons), the armed trawlers V702 (440 tons), V717 (1,000 tons), V702 and V720 (both 280 tons) and V730 (535 tons), the seaplane tender Richtoffen (1,375 tons) and damaged the Elbing-class destroyer T-24. Several small merchant ships were also sunk or damaged.

GERMANY: U-2331 launched.
U-3003 commissioned.

Three targets are bombed by the USAAF's Fifteenth Air Force in Italy:

   - The Deschowitz synthetic oil facilities at Odertal is the target for 150 B-17 Flying Fortresses: 97 bomb visually and 53 use H2X radar to bomb. Five aircraft are lost. 

   - The I.G. Farben synthetic oil facilities at Blechhammer is the target for 114 B-24 Liberators:  66 bomb visually and 48 use H2X radar to bomb. Fourteen aircraft are lost.

   - One aircraft bombs a marshalling yard as a target of opportunity. 

AUSTRIA: Vienna is the target for 269 B-24 Liberators of the USAAF's Fifteenth Air Force in Italy: 150 bomb the Lobau oil refinery, 96 bomb the Korneuburg oil refinery and 23 bomb the Vienna oil refinery with the loss of 18 aircraft. All bombing is visually

NORWAY: Operation GOODWOOD: A British fleet consisting of two escort carriers and three fleet carriers, including HMS INDEFATIGABLE flying Grumman F6F Hellcats, HMS Duke of York and supporting escorts of the Home Fleet under Admiral Moore attacks the German battleship TIRPITZ, but misses because of smoke screen cover. There are heavy British losses.

HUNGARY: During the night of 22/23 August, 50 RAF Liberators of No. 205 Group bomb a marshalling yard at Miskolc with the loss of three aircraft. 

ROMANIA: Soviet forces break through to Jassy on the Dnestr River, in northeastern Romania, convincing Romania's King Michael to sign an armistice with the Allies and concede control of his country to the USSR. 

U.S.S.R..: Soviet Premier Josef Stalin writes letters to U.S. President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill denouncing the leaders of the Warsaw rising as "a group of criminals." 

ITALY: Allied troops capture Florence.

During the night of 22/23 August, an RAF Liberator of No. 205 (Heavy Bomber) Group drops leaflets on Milan. 

ARCTIC OCEAN: The German submarine U-344 is sunk in the Barents Sea northwest of Bear Island, in position 74.54N, 15.26E, by depth charges from a RN Swordfish Mk III in the escort aircraft carrier HMS Vindex. All hands on the U-boat, 50-men, are lost.

At about 01.00 hours, whilst refuelling some of convoy JW.59 escorts, escort carrier HMCS Nabob is torpedoed by U-354 (Kapitanleutnant Hans-Jurgen Sthamer) with a FAT torpedo spread and tries to sink her at 01.22 hours with a Gnat which strikes HMS Bickerton. Although the torpedo struck aft causing considerable damage, Nabob is able to make the 1000-mile return trip to Rosyth, but is not repaired and subsequently broken up. (Nabob had just participated in a Home Fleet attack on Tirpitz, and was returning from that operation. Location: Arctic 120 miles WNW of the North Cape at 71 42N 19 11E.

Frigate HMS Bickerton is torpedoed in the same attack (see previous entry, above). There are 38 casualties. Although the ship was salvageable the force commander did not wish to be burdened by 2 crippled ships and since Nabob was the more valuable unit, Bickerton was scuttled by destroyer HMS Vigilant which fire a torpedo at Bickerton.

Canadian destroyer HMCS Algonquin takes off 203 Nabob crewmembers.

Nabob was one of two escort carriers manned by Canada; attempts to purchase some from the USN were rebuffed as Canada would not accept lend lease equipment for political reasons. Nabob survived the war (but was a total loss to the war effort) and became the German merchant Nabob after the war. U-354 was a VIIC type U-boat, built by Flensburger Schiffsbau-GES, Flensburg, Launched 6 Jan 42, commissioned 22 Apr 42 in service 28 months, she conducted 12 Patrols, with a record of 3 ships sunk for a total of 19,899 tons, and 2 ships damaged for a further 6,134 tons. U-354 was herself sunk 24 Aug 44 during Ops against convoy JW59 by HMS Keppel, Mermaid, Peacock and Loch Dunvegan in the Barents Sea NE of North Cape in position 72-49N, 30-41E, of U-354's crew of 51 there were no survivors. Hans-Jurgen Sthamaer was born in 1919, at Lübeck. He joined then navy in 1937. His first wartime service was in the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper. In Mar 40 he went to the Aircraft Weapons School and then served with the II/KG 30 Group on anti-shipping duties until Feb 42, when he transferred to the U-boat Force. After conversion training he served as the First Watch Officer in U-593, U-604, and then U-91 until Dec 43. He was selected for command and underwent his U-boat commander's course from Dec 43 to Feb 44. He took command of U-354 on 20 Feb 44.

JAPAN: Tokyo: Japanese schoolchildren are interrupting their studies to go into factories to support Japan's war effort, Tokyo radio reported today. Girls aged as young as 12 are working in munitions factories. The broadcast spoke of students "discharging their duties with high fervour in munitions factories amid the din of machinery." It quoted one boy as saying that he had decided "to work with all his might" after he heard the "tragic news" about the loss of Saipan.

CANADA: Frigate HMCS Antigonish arrived Halifax from builder Esquimalt, British Columbia.

Corvette HMCS Sherbrooke completed foc'sle extension refit Liverpool, Nova Scotia.
Tug HMCS Glenside launched Owen Sound, Ontario.
Frigate HMCS St Pierre commissioned.

U.S.A.: Minesweeper USS Liberty launched.
Destroyer escort USS Williams launched.
Minesweeper USS Project commissioned.
Submarine USS Sennet commissioned.
Destroyer minelayer USS Thomas E Fraser commissioned.

Coast Guard-manned Army vessel FS-372 was commissioned at Sturgeon Bay WI with LT W. H. Bowden, USCGR, as commanding officer. She was assigned to and operated in the Southwest Pacific and Western Pacific areas during the war including Leyte, Lingayen, etc.

ATLANTIC OCEAN: U-965 is attacked by two Martlet aircraft (Wildcats), 3 men were killed and 8 wounded. [Bootsmaat Kurt Pesch, Matrosengefreiter Heinz Schade, Maschinengefreiter Thiel] (Alex Gordon)