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• USS Gar attacked a Japanese convoy off Palau Islands at night, reporting six hits with ten torpedoes fired and reporting one sunk and one damaged. ww2dbase [Gar | CPC]
• Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9417 for the establishment of the War Refugee Board to help European Jews flee from Europe. The board was to be governed by the Secretaries of State, Treasury, and War. ww2dbase [Franklin Roosevelt | CPC]
• Lieutenant Leo Boelens, who had escaped from Davao Penal Colony, Mindanao, Philippines, was killed by the Japanese. He was the only escapee of the 4 Apr 1943 escape to not to return to the United States. ww2dbase [The Davao Escape | CPC]
• USS Bailey departed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii bound for the Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Bailey | DS]
• Destroyers USS Nicholas and USS O’Bannon rendezvoused off the California coast and steamed toward Pearl Harbor together. ww2dbase [Nicholas | DS]

• Patrol Boat No. 102 departed Balikpapan, Dutch East Indies at 1315 hours to escort tankers Okikawa Maru and Ashizuri. ww2dbase [Stewart | Balikpapan, Borneo | CPC]

• USS Tang departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol to the Caroline and Mariana Islands area. ww2dbase [Tang | Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | CPC]
• USS Enterprise departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Enterprise | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | CPC]
• USS New Mexico departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [New Mexico | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
• Gato-class submarine USS Silversides arrived at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and commenced normal two-week refit. During this refit, Silversides’ after torpedo room was modified to accommodate the improved version of the Mark XVIII electric torpedo. ww2dbase [Mark XVIII | Silversides | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]

• 36,000 Allied troops landed at Anzio, Italy, facing little opposition. ww2dbase [Battle of Anzio | Anzio, Lazio | TH, CPC]
• German 15th Panzergrenadier Division wiped out new beachheads on the Rapido River in Italy established by US 141st Regiment and 143rd Regiment through the previous night. ww2dbase [Battle of Monte Cassino | CPC]

• Destroyer Yuzuki completed her refitting at Ishikawa Shipyard and the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan. Her aft torpedo mount and two of her four main guns were removed in exchange for additional anti-aircraft machine guns and improved underwater sound detection equipment. ww2dbase [Yokosuka Naval Arsenal | Yuzuki | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]
• Nachi departed Sasebo, Japan. ww2dbase [Nachi | Sasebo, Nagasaki | CPC]

• Submarine USS Tinosa attacked a convoy of four merchant ships plus escorts west of Borneo's northern cape. One spread of three torpedoes sunk the converted tankers Koshin Maru and Seinan Maru (10,900 tons combined). ww2dbase [Tinosa | South China Sea | DS]
• USS Archerfish made a radar contact with a 7-ship convoy in the East China Sea north of Taiwan. She fired four torpedoes and struck a freighter, possibly sinking her. ww2dbase [Archerfish | East China Sea | CPC]

• Viktor Abakumov requested the Soviet GKO for a new trial in Smolensk, Russia for 13 German defendants arrested by SMERSH. ww2dbase [Nuremberg Trials and Other Trials Against Germany | CPC]

• Allied convoy JW-56B departed Liverpool, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Liverpool, England | CPC]

• USS Kimberly departed San Francisco, California, United States for the Aleutian Islands. ww2dbase [Kimberly | San Francisco, California | CPC]

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