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• Lieutenant Commander Hirota Tachibana was named the commanding officer of destroyer Yuzuki. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• The 1st Battalion of the British Parachute Regiment was established. ww2dbase [AC]
• Soviet 8th and 42nd Armies clashed with the German XXXXI Armeekorps (mot[orized]) southwest of Leningrad Russia on the coast of the Gulf of Finland. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• German submarine U-94 sank British ship Newbury at 0816 hours (all 45 aboard survived but were never seen again), Greek ship Pegasus at 2038 hours (16 killed after lifeboat capsized, 13 survived), and British ship Empire Eland at 2348 hours (all 38 survived but were never seen again) 800 miles west of Ireland; all three ships were members of Allied convoy ON-14. ww2dbase [CPC]
• After sundown, British destroyers HMS Napier, HMS Nizam, and HMS Havock set sail from Alexandria, Egypt to the besieged city of Tobruk, Libya with supplies; they would all return to Alexandria in the morning of the next day. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Soviet troops outside of Odessa, Ukraine withdrew southeast toward the city. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein was awarded the Ehrenpokal der Luftwaffe goblet. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Jürgen Stroop was transferred out of the infantry regiment of German 3rd SS Division Totenkopf. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Tatsuta Maru arrived at Shanghai, China. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• German soldiers were attacked by resistance fighters in Paris, France. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]

• British bombers attacked the rail station at Hamburg, Germany. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Captain Jisaku Okada was named the commanding officer of Kaga. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• The keel of Proteus was laid down by the Moore Dry Dock Company in Oakland, California, United States. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

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