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• The Soviet Dneiper bridgehead in southern Ukraine expanded to a 300-mile frontage. ww2dbase [TH]
• On the eve of the Jewish New Year, the Gestapo and Danish Nazi members began rounding up Danish Jews. A Danish businessman passed the news of the operation and passed the information to the Danish resistance, which then arranged fishing boats to ferry a large number of Danish Jews to Sweden. ww2dbase [CPC]
• USS Hoe fired 4 torpedoes at a Japanese freighter; all torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Hoe | CPC]

• Destroyers USS Radford, USS Saufley, and USS Grayson departed Tulagi, Solomon Islands on a patrol up the New Georgia Sound (the "Slot") to interdict Japanese barge traffic. About 24 barges were taken under fire by the three destroyers north of Kolombangara with about 20 barges believed to have been sunk. ww2dbase [Saufley | Tulagi, Solomon Islands | DS]

• SS-Hauptsturmführer Eduard Weiter was named the commandant of Dachau Concentration Camp in southern Germany, replacing Martin Weiß. ww2dbase [Dachau Concentration Camp | Dachau, München-Oberbayern | CPC]
• The construction for U-1133 was suspended. ww2dbase [Howaldtswerke Kiel | U-1133 | Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein | CPC]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Composite Squadron 24 (VC-24) on board. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• German troops began evacuating Naples, Italy amidst continued fighting, leaving behind a burning city historical archive and many booby traps. ww2dbase [Naples Uprising | Napoli, Campania | CPC]

• A wolfpack consisted of German submarines U-703, U-601, and U-960 attacked Soviet convoy VA-18 near the Sergey Kirov Islands in the eastern Kara Sea and sank freighter Arhangelsk. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Krasnoyarsk Krai | CPC]

• Carrier Colossus was launched. ww2dbase [Colossus | CPC]

• Former French Ambassador to the United States Gaston Henri-Haye was transferred out of Hotel Hershey in Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States for his next place of internment in Warm Springs, Virginia, United States. ww2dbase [Hotel Hershey | Hershey, Pennsylvania | CPC]

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