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• Yugoslavia was dissolved, with Italy annexing large areas. ww2dbase [CPC]
• US Army aircraft and troops embarked for Iceland. ww2dbase [CPC]
• The construction for trawler Anticosti was ordered. ww2dbase [Anticosti | CPC]
• The Romanian General Staff issued Directive No. 31 calling for the capture of Odessa and the defeat of Soviet forces between the Dniester River and the Tiligulskiy Estuary in Ukraine. ww2dbase [Siege of Odessa | CPC]
• Soviet destroyer Valerian Kuibyshev made rendezvous with British submarine HMS Tigris off northern Russia. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | CPC]

• During the night, the first Soviet air attack was made on Berlin, Germany by naval Ilyushin Il-4 twin-engine bombers. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Berlin | AC]
• Alexander Löhr was mentioned in the Wehrmachtbericht daily radio report. ww2dbase [Alexander Löhr | CPC]

• Shokaku was commissioned into service at Yokosuka, Japan. ww2dbase [Shokaku | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]

• Joseph Stalin ordered the formation of eight Guards mortar regiments directly under the control of the Stavka to operate Katyusha rocket launchers. ww2dbase [BM-13/8/31 Katyusha | CPC]

• The 6th and 12th Soviet Armies in the Uman Pocket in Ukraine were wiped out by German troops; over 100,000 Soviet prisoners were taken. ww2dbase [Operation Barbarossa | Uman | TH]

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