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• USS Tunny made rendezvous with USS Pilotfish and USS Pintado and formed a wolfpack; the group was nicknamed Blair Blasters. ww2dbase [Tunny | CPC]
• Former Chinese light cruiser Ninghai, now in Japanese service, was renamed Ioshima. ww2dbase [Ninghai | CPC]

• Gao Youxin, leading two P-40N Warhawk fighters based in Xi'an, China, claimed two Japanese Ki-43 aircraft. ww2dbase [Gao Youxin | CPC]

• Edward Brooks arrived in Normandy, France ahead of his US 2nd Armored Division. ww2dbase [Edward Brooks | Basse-Normandie | CPC]

• USS Tang departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, starting her third war patrol in the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Tang | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of CASU-43 arrived on board. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• US Fifth Army captured Civita Castellana, Italy. ww2dbase [Advance to the Gothic Line | Civita Castellana, Lazio | TH]

• USS Harder boarded six British coast watcher on the coast of North Borneo. ww2dbase [Harder | CPC]

• Violette Szabo and three others boarded a B-24 aircraft at RAF Harrington in Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom and were paradropped near Sussac near Limoges, France. ww2dbase [Violette Szabo | Harrington, England | CPC]

• Cleveland-class cruiser USS Pasadena was commissioned at the Bethlehem Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, United States with Captain Richard B. Tuggle in command. ww2dbase [Bethlehem Fore River Shipyard | Pasadena | Quincy, Massachusetts | DS]

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