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• Erwin Rommel wrote to Alfred Jodl, noting that if given command over the nearby tank formations he would wipe out any Allied landing attempt in France. ww2dbase [Erwin Rommel | CPC]
• Anglo-Indian troops attacked Ningthoukhong, India. ww2dbase [Battle of Imphal-Kohima | CPC]
• USS New Mexico departed Efate, New Hebrides. ww2dbase [New Mexico | CPC]

• USS Ray departed Fremantle, Australia for her fourth war patrol. ww2dbase [Ray | Fremantle, Western Australia | 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 [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | Yorktown (Essex-class) | Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea | DS]

• USS Pintado arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Pintado | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• Landing ship No. 131 was launched. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]
• Landing ship No. 151 was completed. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]
• Landing ship No. 154 was launched. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]

• Lt. Cmdr. Thomas B. Oakley, Jr. relieved Lt. Cmdr. Arnold F. Schlade as commanding officer of submarine USS Growler at Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Growler | Majuro | DS]

• USS Whale was detected by a Japanese patrol boat 22 kilometers east of Akuseki Shima, Japan, but she was able to escape before the Japanese attacked. ww2dbase [Whale | East China Sea | CPC]

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

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