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• USS Iowa began to escort carriers while the aircraft struck Japanese positions on New Guinea, Dutch East Indies. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Yugoslavian partisans took control of the island of Korcula in the Adriatic Sea, capturing 800 of the German defenders. ww2dbase [TH]
• Mussolini met with Hitler near Salzburg, Germany (Austria). ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• The RAF used of the new liquid incendiary device, J-Bomb, for the first time against Brunswick, Germany. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• Soviet Union ended peace talks with Finland. ww2dbase [TH]

• Japanese troops captured Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) launched raids the landing areas at Hollandia (Jayapura), Dutch East Indies area of northern New Guinea in support of General Douglas MacArthur's assault on Hollandia. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | DS]
• Allied forces landed on Aitape, Australian Territory of New Guinea and Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea during Operation Persecution. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH, CPC]
• US Army troops captured the main Hollandia Airfield on the northern coast of Dutch New Guinea. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

• Japanese attacks overran some Anglo-Indian defensive positions near Imphal, India, but no major progress was made. Near Kohima to the north, Anglo-Indian troops attacked Garrison Hill after sundown. Behind the Japanese lines, Lieutenant General Renya Mutaguchi visited the front lines and relieved Major General Motozo Yanakida for his perceived lack of aggressiveness, replacing him with Major General Nobuo Tanaka. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Yamato departed Okinoshima, Japan with cruiser Maya, destroyer Shimakaze, destroyer Yukikaze, and two other destroyers. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]
• Light carrier Ryuho departed Kure, Japan for Taira, Bonin Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• Bogdan Kobulov and Ivan Serov sent a message to NKVD chief Lavrentiy Beria, claiming without substantiation that 20,000 Crimean Tatars had deserted during the retreat of the 51st Army from Krym (Crimea), Russia in 1941. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Kamoi was tied to quay No. 13 at Singapore. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• American forces conducted marshalling and embarkation drills at Slapton, Devonshire, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

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