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• Graph was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Main Article | 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 [Main Article | CPC]
• Franz Kutschera passed away. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Luce departed Massacre Bay, Attu, Aleutian Islands for Paramushiru, Kurile Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | 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 [AC]

• German 44th Infantry Division fell back near the Rapido River toward Monte Cassino, Italy. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS New Mexico shelled Japanese positions on Ebeye Island, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | CPC]

• 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 [Main Article | Facility | 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 [Main Article | JR]

• Allied convoy JW-56B arrived at the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Kamoi, under tow, arrived at Seletar Naval Base, Singapore. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• A personnel office and a naval infantry unit were established at Takao Guard District in southern Taiwan. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

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