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• USS Puffer attacked a Japanese convoy in the Dutch East Indies, damaging a transport and sinking another; she expended 6 torpedoes and observed 3 hits. ww2dbase [Puffer | CPC]
• USS Bailey arrived at San Diego, California. ww2dbase [Bailey | DS]

• US Marine Corps squadron VMF-214 moved from the Russell Islands to Munda Airfield on New Georgia. ww2dbase [Munda, New Georgia | CPC]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Black top on landing mat completed. Part of Fighting Squadron 25 (VF-25; Model F6F-3); Torpedo Squadron 25 (VT-25; Model TBF-1), on board. Part of Bombing Squadron 25 (VB-25; Model SBD-5) on board. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• British Eighth Army linked up with US troops near Salerno in Italy; Albert Kesselring issued the order to break off the counteroffensive at Salerno and form a defensive line. ww2dbase [Operation Avalanche | Salerno, Campania | TH, CPC]

• Destroyers USS Saufley, USS Cony, and USS Montgomery and supply ships SS Meredith and SS McClintock arrived at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. Saufley and Montgomery then went alongside destroyer tender USS Whitney to begin refits. ww2dbase [Saufley | Segund Channel, Espirtu Santo | DS]

• Marcel Albert, flying a Yak-9 fighter, shot down a Fw 190 aircraft 10 kilometers west of Yelnya, Smolensk, Russia. ww2dbase [Marcel Albert | Yelnya, Smolensk | CPC]

• Yolande Beekman departed Britain in a Lysander aircraft. ww2dbase [Yolande Beekman | CPC]
• No. 184 Squadron RAF, flying Hurricane IV fighters, arrived at RAF Newchurch in southern England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [RAF Newchurch | Newchurch, England | CPC]

• USS Tunny arrived at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, California, United States. ww2dbase [Tunny | San Francisco, California | CPC]

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