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• Spanish volunteers from the recently disbanded German 250th Infantry Division began to arrive in Spain. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Colonel General Hans-Valentin Hube replaced Eberhard von Mackensen as the commander of the German 1.Panzerarmee. ww2dbase [CPC]
• USS Seahorse sank a small Japanese vessel with her deck gun south of Japan. ww2dbase [Seahorse | CPC]
• US Task Force 38 sortied from Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides in support of the Bouganville, Solomon Islands invasion. ww2dbase [Solomon Islands Campaign | CPC]
• After four days in drydock, escort carrier USS Bogue was floated out of Drydock No. 4 at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia. Bogue would spend the next several days dockside completing her overhaul. ww2dbase [Norfolk Navy Yard | Bogue | Portsmouth, Virginia | DS]

• B-24 bombers, escorted by P-38 fighters, attacked Vunakanau Airfield at Rabaul, New Britain. 72 A6M fighters rose to defend. The Japanese lost at least 7 fighters in combat. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | Rabaul, New Britain | CPC]

• 63rd Bomb Sauadron (flying B-24 aircraft) of USAAF 43rd Bomb Group was transferred from Port Moresby to Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua. ww2dbase [Dobodura Airfield | Dobodura | CPC]

• US Marine Corps squadron VMTB-233, equipped with SBD dive bombers and TBF torpedo bombers, was transferred out of Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Henderson Field | Lunga Point, Guadalcanal | CPC]
• Destroyer USS Saufley arrived at Tulagi, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Saufley | Tulagi, Solomon Islands | DS]

• Haruki Isayama was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. ww2dbase [Haruki Isayama | CPC]

• Seven internees of the Stanley Internment Camp in Hong Kong were executed by the Japanese administration for their secret possession a radio transmitter. ww2dbase [Stanley Prison and St Stephen's College | CPC]

• SS Loraine, carrying troops of US Army 1688th Detachment, arrived at Bombay, India. ww2dbase [Bombay | CPC]

• Kamikaze departed Otaru, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan to escort a convoy. ww2dbase [Kamikaze | Otaru, Hokkaido | CPC]

• USS Bailey arrived at Wellington, New Zealand. ww2dbase [Bailey | Wellington | DS]

• Kamoi departed Singapore. ww2dbase [Kamoi | Singapore | CPC]
• Japan released Walter Auconi and other Italian officers and men formerly of submarine Comandante Cappellini from the Sime Road prisoners of war camp. ww2dbase [Comandante Cappellini | Singapore | CPC]

• Lieutenant General Shinpachi Kondo was named the chief of staff of the Taiwan Army. ww2dbase [CPC]

• USS St. Louis departed Mare Island, conducted sea trials off the Golden Gate, and returned to San Francisco, California. ww2dbase [St. Louis | San Francisco, California | DS]
• At Camp Hood in Texas, United States, the 761st Tank Battalion was reconstituted as a medium tank battalion and rearmed with the M4 Sherman tanks. Ruben Rivers by this time had advanced to Staff Sergeant. ww2dbase [Ruben Rivers | Killeen, Texas | DS]

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