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- George Patton visited the 93rd Evacuation Hospital in Sicily, Italy and berated Private Paul Bennett for cowardice. ww2dbase [George Patton | CPC]
- Bernard Montgomery was awarded the title of Chief Commander of the Legion of Merit of the United States. ww2dbase [Bernard Montgomery | CPC]
- Winston Churchill arrived at Hyde Park, New York, United States to visit Franklin Roosevelt. ww2dbase [Winston Churchill | CPC]
- Operational control of the US Northern Landing Group on New Georgia in the Solomon Islands was passed to the US Army 25th Division, while the US lst Marine Raider Regiment was detached from the Northern Landing Group to join other Marine Corps units at Enogai. ww2dbase [Solomon Islands Campaign | CPC]
- USS Haddock arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii.F14,C68, ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Haddock | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
- A transport of about 3,000 arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp from the liquidated ghetto in Sosnowiec, Poland. 110 men and 195 were registered into the camp; the remainder were killed in the gas chambers. On the same day, Auschwitz received 754 sewing machines from the liquidated ghetto of Bedzin, Poland. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Oswiecim | CPC]
- Cruiser USS New Orleans (New Orleans-class) departed Puget Sound, Washington, United States after overhaul and being fitted with a new permanent bow due to her bow being blown off in the Battle of Tassafaronga. ww2dbase [Puget Sound Navy Yard | New Orleans | Bremerton, Washington | DS]
- USS Tunny departed Midway Atoll. ww2dbase [Midway Bases | Tunny | Midway | CPC]




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