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• USS Columbia set sail for Sydney, Australia. ww2dbase [Columbia | Sydney | CPC]

• Men of US 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment conducted an airborne operation at the village of Nadzab west of Lae, Australian Territory of New Guinea. They were supported on the ground by elements of Australian 2/4th Field Regiment. Douglas MacArthur personally observed the operation in a B-17 aircraft. Military engineers immediately began the preparations for the building of an airfield. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | Nadzab Airfield | Nadzab | CPC]

• British Eighth Army captured San Stefano, Italy. ww2dbase [Operation Avalanche | San Stefano | TH]

• USS Luce departed New York, New York, United States. ww2dbase [Luce | New York | CPC]
• Composite Squadron VC-19 came aboard escort carrier USS Bogue with their FM-1 Wildcats and TBF-1c Avengers. Bogue and her escorts put to sea on an offensive Hunter-Killer anti-submarine mission along the Atlantic convoy routes between North America and Africa. ww2dbase [Conclusion of the Battle of the Atlantic | Norfolk Navy Yard | Bogue | Norfolk, Virginia | DS]

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