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• Yamato arrived at Tawi-Tawi, where she would remain for gunnery drills at range of nearly 22 miles with sister ship Musashi through Jun 1944. ww2dbase [Yamato | CPC]
• Musashi arrived at Tawi Tawi, where she would remain for gunnery drills at range of nearly 22 miles with sister ship Yamato through Jun 1944. ww2dbase [Musashi | CPC]
• Luftwaffe Leutnant August Lambert was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross medal for 90 kills. Of the nearly 250 Soviet aircraft shot down by II/SG2 during the Gruppe's six-month defence of the Crimea region in Ukraine, more than a third had fallen to Lambert's guns. ww2dbase [AC]
• 1st Anti-Fascist Partisan Brigade commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Gil, who was also known as I. G. Rodionov, was killed in action. ww2dbase [CPC]
• USS Wasp's aircraft attacked Japanese positions on Marcus and Wake Islands. ww2dbase [Wasp (Essex-class) | CPC]

• Colonel Charles Hunter sent Joseph Stilwell the code phrase Cafeteria Lunch to note that the troops were ready to strike Myitkyina, Burma within the next 48 hours. ww2dbase [Battle of Myitkyina | Charles Hunter | CPC]

• Patrol Boat No. 102 arrived at Bitung, Celebes, Dutch East Indies for repairs with her No. 4 boiler. ww2dbase [Stewart | Bitung, Celebes | CPC]

• Heinrich Kreipe and his captors were picked up by a British ship at near Rodakino, Crete, Greece. ww2dbase [Heinrich Kreipe | Rodakino, Crete | CPC]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Grading for the foundation began on the engine overhaul facility. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• French Moroccan colonial troops outflanked German defenses in the Liri River valley in Italy. ww2dbase [Battle of Monte Cassino | TH, CPC]

• Submarine USS Growler departed Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands on her ninth war patrol to take up patrol in the Marianas-Eastern Philippines-Luzon area. ww2dbase [Growler | Majuro | DS]

• Destroyers USS Nicholas, USS Radford, USS Hopewell, USS O'Bannon, USS Fletcher, and USS LaVallette arrived at Nouméa, New Caledonia. ww2dbase [Nicholas | Nouméa | DS]

• USS Bonefish made contact with a Japanese force consisted of carriers Shokaku, Zuikaku, and Taiho in the Sulu Sea northwest of Tawi-Tawi, Philippines at 1400 hours. ww2dbase [Taiho | Shokaku | Zuikaku | Bonefish | Sulu Sea | CPC]

• Steam tug Anton collided with U-1234 off Gdynia, Poland at 2300 hours, sinking the submarine. 13 were killed. ww2dbase [U-1234 | Gdynia, Pomorskie | CPC]

• After loading 47 F4U Corsair fighters and personnel from two Marine Corps Fighting Squadrons, carrier USS Steamer Bat departed San Diego, California bound for Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. ww2dbase [Steamer Bay | San Diego, California | DS]

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