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• German troops launched an offensive against American forces at and near Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia. ww2dbase [Battle of Faïd Pass and Sidi Bouzid | CPC]
• USS Runner attacked and claimed the sinking of a Japanese transport in the western Pacific; she reported 3 torpedoes expended and 2 hits. ww2dbase [Runner (Gato-class) | CPC]
• USS Nicholas arrived at Efate, New Hebrides. ww2dbase [Nicholas | DS]

• Orde Wingate's first Chindit expedition, which had set off in great secrecy four days earlier, reached and crossed the Chinwin River badly behind schedule. Here, an agitated Wingate would discover that an RAF supply drop, which included letters from home, had fallen into Japanese hands, compromising security. ww2dbase [Operation Longcloth | Orde Wingate | AC]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Truk | CPC]
• Destroyer Yukikaze arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Yukikaze | Truk | CPC]

• Submarine USS Thresher observed Japanese submarine I-162 running on the surface in the Sunda Strait. Thresher fired three torpedoes with one hit that failed to explode. The damaged I-162 sailed on to be repaired later. ww2dbase [Thresher | Sunda Strait | DS]

• Alpino Bagnolini departed La Pallice, La Rochelle, France at 1542 hours, starting her tenth war patrol. ww2dbase [Alpino Bagnolini | La Rochelle, Poitou-Charentes | CPC]

• Carrier USS Saratoga with destroyer USS Saufley among her escorts arrived at Nouméa, New Caledonia after their patrol of the waters north of the island. ww2dbase [Saufley | Nouméa | DS]

• Task Force 67 consisting of cruisers USS Nashville, USS Helena (St. Louis-class), USS Honolulu, and USS St. Louis with destroyers USS Drayton, USS Lamson, USS O’Bannon, and USS Reid arrived at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. ww2dbase [Walden Ainsworth | Helena (St. Louis-class) | Honolulu | St. Louis | Nashville | Segond Channel, Espiritu Santo | DS]

• Commandant Rudolf Höss of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp issued Garrison Order No. 3 which instructed the SS guards to "maintain an appropriate distance from the prisoners" to order to prevent the spread of typhus which was rampant among the prisoners. ww2dbase [Rudolf Höss | Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Oswiecim | CPC]

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