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• After dark, an unidentified group of Vietnamese men attacked the Cité Héraud district in Saigon, Cochinchina, French Indochina, killing, torturing, and raping somewhere between 100 and 300 of Europeans. Japanese troops assigned to this district failed to stop the attackers; Gurkha troops were called in to control the situation. ww2dbase [Saigon, Cochinchina | CPC]

• Soviet operative Andrei Onishchenko and his team captured Konstantin Volkov, who was in the process of defecting to the United Kingdom, and departed Turkey for Russia. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Salmon was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Salmon | CPC]
• USS Sea Robin arrived at Galveston, Texas, United States. ww2dbase [Sea Robin | Galveston, Texas | CPC]
• USS Baya arrived in San Francisco, California, United States. ww2dbase [Baya | San Francisco, California | CPC]
• German test pilot Karl Bauer arrived at Wright Field in Ohio, United States. ww2dbase [Dayton, Ohio | CPC]
• USS Preston arrived at San Pedro, California, United States. ww2dbase [Preston (Fletcher-class) | San Pedro, California | CPC]

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