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• Submarine Becuna was launched, sponsored by the wife of Commander George C. Crawford. ww2dbase [Becuna | CPC]
• German submarine U-278 fatally damaged Allied arctic convoy escort HMS Hardy; HMS Venus scuttled HMS Hardy after the damaged destroyer was abandoned. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | CPC]
• USS Seahorse sank Japanese cargo ship Toko Maru south of Japan, which she had been chasing for many hours, hitting her with all three of three torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Seahorse | CPC]

• Camp Four of the Sino-American Cooperative Organization (SACO) in Xamba, Suiyuan Province, China sent its first weather report to the SACO headquarters in Chongqing, China. ww2dbase [Xamba, Suiyuan | CPC]

• 534 RAF aircraft (440 Lancaster, 82 Halifax, and 12 Mosquito) attacked Berlin, Germany; 33 aircraft were lost. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Berlin | CPC]
• Robert Johnson shot down a German Me 410 heavy fighter and a Bf 109 fighter over Lingen, Germany. ww2dbase [Robert Johnson | Lingen | CPC]

• Allied forces attacked out of the Anzio, Italy beachhead, advancing toward Cisterna and Campoleone, but none of the two forces would be able to capture the objectives; during the process, an entire US Army Ranger battalion was destroyed. ww2dbase [Battle of Anzio | Anzio, Lazio | TH, CPC]

• USS Alabama bombarded Japanese positions on Namur, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Alabama | Kwajalein | CPC]
• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) struck targets on Kwajalein, Marshall Islands to begin softening up the island for the landings set for the next day. ww2dbase [Marshall Islands Campaign | J. J. Clark | Yorktown (Essex-class) | Kwajalein Atoll | DS]

• USS Finback damaged a fishing trawler with gunfire in the East China Sea. ww2dbase [Finback | East China Sea | CPC]

• The opening installment of "The Dyess Story" was published by the newspaper Chicago Tribune. ww2dbase [The Davao Escape | Ed Dyess | CPC]

30 Jan 1944 Interactive Map