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• Roosevelt created the War Refugee Board in response to political pressure that demanded action to help Jews in occupied Europe. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of CASU-30 departed. ww2dbase [Main Article | DS]

• Hitler ordered that the Gustav Line in Italy was to be held at all costs. Meanwhile, French forces attacked north of Monte Cassino and US 34th Infantry Division attacked across the Rapido River north of Cassino. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH, CPC]
• At Anzio, Italy, Private George Mitchell charged alone through intense machine-gun fire, jumped into the weapon pit and killed the crew. Shortly afterwards, he similarly assaulted a second position, killing six of the enemy and taking 12 prisoners. He was killed moments later when one of the Germans who had supposedly surrendered snatched up a discarded rifle and shot him. Mitchell was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross medal. ww2dbase [AC]
• German forces in the Anzio, Italy region increased to over 40,000 men. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Junio Valerio Borghese was released from imprisonment in Italy. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Whale spotted a Japanese submarine and gave chase, but a trim pump fire forced her to abandon chase. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Violette Szabo made her will, witnessed by Vera Atkins and Major R. A. Bourne Paterson of Special Operations Executive, naming her mother Reine as executrix and her daughter Tania as sole beneficiary. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

24 Jan 1944 Interactive Map