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- USS Tunny made radar contact with Japanese submarine I-42 off Angaur Island, Palau Islands. At 2324, Tunny lauched four torpedoes at the range of 1,700 meters, hitting and sinking the Japanese submarine. ww2dbase [Tunny | CPC]
- Orde Wingate's headquarters completed its move to Sylhet, British India. ww2dbase [Orde Wingate | CPC]
- Japanese troops assaulted an Allied defensive position in the crater of an extinct volcano near Sangshak, India, initially failing to take the position. Shortly after, Allied aircraft dropped supplies to the Indian troops at Sangshak, India, but most of the supplies fell behind Japanese lines. As Indian 152nd Parachute Battalion attacked from the volcano crater to regain the supplies, the Japanese drove them back, causing heavy casualties. ww2dbase [Battle of Imphal-Kohima | CPC]
- USS Columbia departed Emirau, Bismarck Islands. ww2dbase [Columbia | Emirau, New Ireland | CPC]
- USS Gabilan arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Gabilan | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | CPC]
- Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of Air Group 19 on board. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]
- Landing ship No. 152 was launched. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]
- USS Whale made rendezvous with USS Pollack and formed a wolfpack to patrol Torishima of Izu Islands and the Bonin Islands (Ogasawara Islands). ww2dbase [Whale | CPC]
- V. T. Shirmanov stepped down as GUKR SMERSH's chief in the 1st Byelorussian Front. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Submarine Trepang was launched at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in California, United States. ww2dbase [Mare Island Navy Yard | Trepang | Vallejo, California | CPC]




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