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• USS Scorpion sank three sampans with gunfire off Honshu, Japan. ww2dbase [Scorpion | CPC]

• A transport of Jews from Westerbork Concentration Camp arrived at Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in Sudetenland in southern Germany (occupied Czechoslovakia). ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Theresienstadt Concentration Camp | Terezín, Cechy | CPC]

• British Mosquito reconnaissance aircraft photographed a German rocket at Peenemünde, Germany but intelligence analysts could not be certain of the object photographed. ww2dbase [Peenemünde Army Research Center | Peenemünde, Pommern | CPC]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Fire station and Public Works garage turned over to station. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• Naka arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. ww2dbase [Naka | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]

• USS Wahoo conducted training off Midway Atoll. ww2dbase [Wahoo | CPC]

• The US Submarine Grenadier was scuttled by her crew after suffering severe damage from Japanese air attack off Penang on the Malay Peninsula. ww2dbase [Grenadier | Penang | AC]

• South African and British fighters intercepted an Italian air convoy off Tunisia, Italian North Africa and claimed to have shot down 12 transport aircraft and 7 escorts. On the ground, the final Allied assault began against the remaining Axis forces in North Africa with armoured thrusts from Sidi Nsir, Medjez, and Pont du Fahs. Only at Enfidaville was there a halt. Resistance remained fierce, however, and was professionally handled by the Germans and Italians, allowing units of the Luftwaffe to be evacuated from the shrinking perimeter. ww2dbase [Conclusion of the Desert War | CPC, AC]

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