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- German government decreed that no foreign workers was to receive higher wages or enjoy better working conditions than the poorest German workers. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Hartwig von Ludwiger stepped down as the commanding officer of 83rd Infantry Regiment of 28th Infantry Division. ww2dbase [Hartwig von Ludwiger | CPC]
- Axis troops reached El Alamein, Egypt. ww2dbase [First Battle of El Alamein | TH]
- A US Navy PBM Mariner aircraft sank German submarine U-158 70 kilometers west of Bermuda, killing all 54 aboard. 550 miles west of Ireland, German submarine U-458 sank Norwegian merchant ship Morsfruit; all 36 aboard survived. 650 miles northeast of the island of Saint Martin, Italian submarine Morosini sank Dutch merchant ship Tysa; all aboard survived. ww2dbase [Second Happy Time | CPC]
- German submarine U-372 sank British submarine depot ship HMS Medway 62 miles northwest of Alexandria, Egypt at 0824 hours; 30 were killed, 1,105 survived. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Japanese submarine I-10 sank US ship Express in the Mozambique Channel, killing 13. In the same area, I-20 sank British tanker Steaua Romana. ww2dbase [Raids into the Indian Ocean | CPC]
- Commander Kinzo Tonozuka became the commanding officer of I-168. ww2dbase [I-68/I-168 | CPC]
- In Egypt, Allied defenses east of Mersa Matruh fell back to El Alamein. ww2dbase [Battle of Mersa Matruh | CPC]
- Submarine Tunny was launched, sponsored by Mrs. Frederick G. Crisp. ww2dbase [Tunny | CPC]
- The United States Marine Corps reported an active duty strength of 7,138 officers and 135,475 enlisted men for a total of 142,413 personnel. ww2dbase [CPC]
- USS Sturgeon detected Japanese passenger ship Montevideo Maru off northern Philippine Islands and began to give chase. ww2dbase [Sturgeon | CPC]
- The Soviet 40th Army was trapped by German 4th Panzer Army and German 6th Army in southern Russia. ww2dbase [Caucasus Campaign | CPC]
- Georg von Küchler was promoted to the rank of Field Marshal. ww2dbase [Georg von Küchler | CPC]
- All Jewish schools in Germany were forced to close. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
- Brigadier General Frederick McCabe arrived at Ramgarh Training Center, India. ww2dbase [Ramgarh Training Center | Ramgarh, Bihar | CPC]
- Tatsuta Maru arrived at Yokohama, Japan. ww2dbase [Tatsuta Maru | Yokohama, Kanagawa | CPC]
- USS S-38 arrived off Lunga Roads north of Guadalcanal. ww2dbase [S-38 | CPC]
- USS Plunger sank Japanese ship Unkai Maru No. 5 70 miles southeast of Shanghai, China. ww2dbase [Plunger | East China Sea | CPC]
- Auschwitz Concentration Camp's Bunker II, the second gas chamber, became operational. ww2dbase [Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Oswiecim | CPC]
- At a meeting headed by Ernest King and George Marshall, US military leadership finally settled their inter-service rivalry by moving the boundary of SOWESPAC (South West Pacific Command) and SOPAC (South Pacific Command) by 1 degree, or 60 miles, in order to facilitate the planned assault on Tulagi in the Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Guadalcanal Campaign | CPC]




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