14 Jan 1943
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- Tatsuta Maru departed Singapore at 0900 hours. ww2dbase [Tatsuta Maru | CPC]
- Soviet troops captured Velikiye Luki 200 miles west of Moscow, Russia. ww2dbase [TH]
- Independence was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Independence | CPC]
- USS S-35 departed Dutch Harbor, US Territory of Alaska in the Aleutian Islands. ww2dbase [S-35 | Unalaska | CPC]
- Repair ship Akashi began repairing destroyer Naganami at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Akashi | Truk | CPC]
- Workers at Dock No. 4 at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, US Territory of Hawaii completed cutting underwater piles. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
- Satoru Anabuki, flying Ki-43 fighter "Fubuki", shot down a Hurricane fighter over an area of India now part of Bangladesh, his 14th victory. ww2dbase [Satoru Anabuki | CPC]
- I-168 arrived at Kure, Japan. ww2dbase [I-68/I-168 | Kure, Hiroshima | CPC]
- Yugure arrived at Sasebo, Japan for a scheduled maintenance and refitting. ww2dbase [Sasebo Naval Arsenal | Yugure | Sasebo, Nagasaki | CPC]
- Tanikaze was attacked by a US aircraft while sailing toward Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands; Commander Motoi Katsumi was killed. ww2dbase [Guadalcanal Campaign | Tanikaze | CPC]
- Georg Zahradka was executed at Auschwitz Concentration Camp for attempting to escape during the night of 9 Jan 1943. ww2dbase [Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Oswiecim | CPC]
- USS Ancon departed the United States for French Algeria, with cargo and troops on board, as a member of the Naval Transport Service. ww2dbase [Ancon | CPC]
- USS Sunfish arrived at Midway Atoll, ending her first war patrol. ww2dbase [Midway Bases | Sunfish (Gato-class) | Midway | CPC]
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