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• USS Cod sank a Japanese cargo ship. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• The Germans lost 36 Linsen boats - small motorboats packed with explosives - attempting to disrupt traffic in the Scheldt estuary controlling the approach to the port of Antwerp, Belgium. On the same day, Canadian forces entered the Netherlands, capturing Kerkrade. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• Franklin Roosevelt told Chiang Kaishek that Joseph Stilwell was to be relieved as Chiang's chief of staff and as the Lend-Lease director, but he would remain in China as the commanding officer of American troops in China and Burma. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Emden began laying mines in the Skagerrak. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Four TDR drones, each carrying a 2,000-pound bomb, were launched against Japanese supply caves near the coast of Keravia Bay, south of Rabaul, New Britain. One hit in the vicinity of cave entrances, one missed the target area, two were lost enroute due to interference from communications frequency used by motor gunboats operating in the waters over which the drones flew. ww2dbase [Main Article | DS]

• US II Corps, with British troops in support, launched a new attack toward Bologna, Italy. To the east, Indian 10th Infantry Division crossed the Fiumicino River, forcing German 10th Army to pull back toward Bologna. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Landing ship No. 112 was completed and was transferred to the Japanese Army. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Soviet First Baltic Front resumed the offensive toward Memel (now Klaipeda, Lithuania) to cut off German Armeegruppe Nord. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH, CPC]

• A German V-2 rocket hit Acle near Norwich, England, United Kingdom, temporarily causing blockage to a road. Another rocket hit Surlingham, downing several telephone lines. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | CPC]
• Allied convoy RA-60 arrived at Loch Ewe, Scotland, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

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