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• Tirpitz arrived at KÃ¥fjord, Norway. ww2dbase [Tirpitz | CPC]
• The British Ventura bombers flew their last bombing mission; they would soon be replaced by Mosquito aircraft. This last mission was flown by crews of the No. 21 Squadron RAF. ww2dbase [Ventura | CPC]
• The US submarine Grayling was missing, presumed rammed and sunk by a Japanese vessel, whilst on patrol off Manila, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Grayling | AC]
• U-23 completed her eleventh war patrol. ww2dbase [U-23 | CPC]
• USS Bailey regained sound contact and upon further analysis the contact was found to be cause by contours of the sea floor. ww2dbase [Bailey | DS]

• USS Bluefish departed Brisbane, Australia for her first war patrol. ww2dbase [Bluefish | Brisbane, Queensland | CPC]

• Upon hearing the news that Italy had surrendered, Italian transport submarine Comandante Cappellini (Aquilla III), in port at Sabang, Sumatra, Dutch East Indies, attempted to request permission to leave port under the guise of a training exercise. The request was denied by the Japanese leadership. When the submarine's commanding officer Walter Auconi met with Vice Admiral Hiraoka Kumeichi of the 9th Base Unit at Sabang, the Japanese officer suggested surrender, which the Italian complied. ww2dbase [Comandante Cappellini | Sabang, Sumatra | CPC]

• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against Lille, France. ww2dbase [Bombing of Cities in France and Low Countries | RAF Thurleigh | Lille | DS]

• Hubert Lanz was given command of XXII Gebirgskorps in Greece. ww2dbase [Hubert Lanz | CPC]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: More of Air Group 5 on board. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]
• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) stood out of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii bound for the west coast of the United States. ww2dbase [J. J. Clark | Yorktown (Essex-class) | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]

• US B-26 Marauder bomber attacked Scanzano Jonico, Italy, 50 kilometers southwest of Taranto. At Taranto, four British cruisers disembarked troops of British 1st Airborne Division, taking the port city with Italian cooperation; the British troops began marching inland after sundown. To the west, the main Allied assault on Italy, Operation Avalanche, began with the landing of two British divisions and one American division at Salerno; the British troops pushed 8 to 11 kilometers inland, which the Americans held on to a precarious beachhead. To the north, German troops disarmed their former Italian allies and classified them as prisoners of war while a new Fascist Anti-Badoglio government was formed. Italian leaders King Vittorio Emanuele III, the queen, Pietro Badoglio, Vittorio Ambrosio, and others fled Rome eastward, then turned south toward Brindisi. ww2dbase [Operation Avalanche | TH, CPC]
• Small scale clashes took place between Italian civilians and policemen and German troops. ww2dbase [Naples Uprising | Napoli, Campania | CPC]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Yokosuka, Japan for her 15th voyage with the Japanese Navy. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]
• USS Harder sank cargo ship Koyo Maru off Japan, hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes. ww2dbase [Harder | CPC]
• Nachi arrived at Paramushiro (Paramushir), Kurile Islands. ww2dbase [Nachi | Paramushiro, Hokkaido | CPC]

• Naka arrived at Taroa, Maloelap Atoll, Marshall Islands and disembarked troops. ww2dbase [Naka | Maloelap | CPC]

• USS Permit damaged a Japanese transport between Kwajalein Atoll and Wotje Atoll, Marshall Islands, hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes fired. A Japanese aircraft spotted USS Permit and attacked with depth charges; USS Permit escaped unscathed. ww2dbase [Permit | CPC]

• 5,006 Jews from the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia arrived at the newly created Familienlager-Theresienstadt family camp in sector BIIb of Auschwitz II-Birkenau Concentration Camp in Poland. ww2dbase [Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Oswiecim | CPC]

• John Basilone participated in a bond tour event in Newark, New Jersey, United States. ww2dbase [John Basilone | Newark, New Jersey | CPC]

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