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• Repair ship Akashi received provisions from auxiliary storeship Kitakami Maru at Palau Islands. ww2dbase [Akashi | CPC]
• The French submarines Pascal and Redoutable were sunk during an air raid. They had been re-floated after being scuttled on 27 Nov 1942. ww2dbase [HM]
• Carriers USS Corregidor and USS Coral Sea with destroyers USS Nicholas, USS LaVallette, and USS Ellet departed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii bound for the Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Nicholas | Corregidor | Anzio | Ellet | DS]

• Aircraft of No. 466 Squadron RAAF conducted minelaying operations off of Helgoland, Germany. ww2dbase [North Sea | CPC]

• Destroyers USS Saufley, USS Philip, and USS Renshaw arrived at Empress Augusta Bay, Bougainville and began five days of close, in-shore patrols in conjunction with PT boats. ww2dbase [Saufley | Bougainville, Solomon Islands | DS]

• By this date, 9,000 men and 1,300 animals were delivered to northern Burma for Operation Thursday. ww2dbase [Operation Thursday | CPC]
• Frank Merrill gave his US 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional) officers at Shikau Ga, Burma a briefing on their next objective, which was Jambu Bum in the Mogaung Valley about 20 miles south of their current position. The Americans were to move behind the Japanese to cut lines of supply and communication, while Chinese 22nd Division was to be the main attack force, with Chinese 65th Regiment covering the right flank in the west. Two Chinese regiments from 38th Division was to provide support for the Americans as necessary. The 1st Battalion was to lead the advance for the Americans to create a roadblock on the Kamaing Road near Shaduzup, which was 10 miles south of Jambu Gam, supported by Chinese 113th Regiment. The 2nd and 3rd Battalions were to establish secondary roadblocks 10 miles further south at Inkangahawng. ww2dbase [Battle of Myitkyina | Frank Merrill | Shikau Ga | CPC]

• US submarine Bowfin (SS-287) sank the Japanese army cargo ship Tsukikawa Maru, off Halmahera Island in Dutch East Indies, hitting her with all four of four torpedoes fired. Bowfin continued to attack the Asaka Maru, which had arrived to rescue Tsukikawa Maru's survivors, with four torpedoes, all of which missed. The Japanese minelayer Wakatake and army aircraft carried out ineffective counterattacks on the American submarine. ww2dbase [Bowfin | HM, CPC]
• UIT-25 arrived at Surabaya, Java, Dutch East Indies. ww2dbase [Luigi Torelli | Surabaya, Java | CPC]

• US 15th Air Force aircraft sank the German submarines U-380 and U-410 at the Missiessy Docks in Toulon, France. ww2dbase [Toulon, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | HM]

• USS Corregidor departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Corregidor | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• The German submarine UIT-22 (formerly Italian submarine Alpino Bagnolini; Oberleutnant zur See Carl Wunderlich) was sunk by three British Catalina aircraft belonging to No. 262 Squadron SAAF in the Indian Ocean off of the Cape of Good Hope. UIT-22 was on her first patrol since the German takeover. According to records made available, this South African squadron was sent to the attack area after detailed instructions about the rendezvous point in the Indian Ocean had been deciphered. All 43 aboard the German submarine were killed ww2dbase [Alpino Bagnolini | HM]

• USS Lapon made contact with the Japanese carrier group centered around Zuikaku at around 1228 hours in the Pacific Ocean; she lost contact with the Japaese ships at around 1314 hours. ww2dbase [Zuikaku | Mogami | Lapon | CPC]

• The British ambassador in Washington DC, United States voiced the opinion that revealing the Holocaust to the German people would not be an effective propaganda tool against the German leadership. ww2dbase [Washington | CPC]

• About 300 Jewish women and children of Split, Yugoslavia were rounded up, sent to Jasenovac Concentration Camp, and killed. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Split, Croatia | CPC]

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