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- Franz Kutschera passed away. ww2dbase [Franz Kutschera | CPC]
- The British Air Headquarters Air Defences Eastern Mediterranean was renamed the Air Headquarters Eastern Mediterranean; Richard Saul remained its commanding officer despite the name change. ww2dbase [Richard Saul | CPC]
- Graph was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Graph | CPC]
- USS Kimberly departed Attu, Aleutian Islands, US Territory of Alaska. ww2dbase [Kimberly | Attu | CPC]
- USS Luce departed Massacre Bay, Attu, Aleutian Islands for Paramushiru, Kurile Islands. ww2dbase [Luce | Attu | CPC]
- The United States Marine Corps established a new 4th Marine Regiment at Tassafaronga, Guadalcanal (the original 4th Marine having been lost at Corregidor in the Philippine Islands in 1942) drawing its manpower from the deactivated Raider battalions. ww2dbase [Tassafaronga Point, Guadalcanal | AC]
- German 44th Infantry Division fell back near the Rapido River toward Monte Cassino, Italy. ww2dbase [Battle of Monte Cassino | CPC]
- USS New Mexico shelled Japanese positions on Ebeye Island, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Marshall Islands Campaign | New Mexico | Kwajalein | CPC]
- Polish AK resistance fighters assassinated German SS commander Franz Kutschera at the intersection of Aleje Ujazdowskie and Piusa XI Street in Warsaw, Poland. ww2dbase [Operation Kutschera | Warsaw | JR]
- A new satellite camp of Auschwitz III (Monowitz), located at the Guenthergrube in Ledziny, Poland opened. This new satellite camp would house 300 prisoners for coal mining for the German industrial firm I. G. Farben. ww2dbase [Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Oswiecim | CPC]
- Allied convoy JW-56B arrived at the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Murmansk | CPC]
- A personnel office and a naval infantry unit were established at Takao Guard District in southern Taiwan. ww2dbase [Takao Guard District | Takao | CPC]
- Clifton Cates was promoted to the rank of major general. ww2dbase [Clifton Cates | Quantico, Virginia | CPC]
- United States Navy Fighting Squadron Eighty (VF-80) was commissioned at NAS Atlantic City, New Jersey with the experienced Lt Commander Albert O. Vorse in command. ww2dbase [Albert O. Vorse, Jr. | Atlantic City, New Jersey | DS]




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