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• Aboard Yamato, a festive dinner was held for all captains stationed at Truk to celebrate the victory at the Battle of Santa Cruz. ww2dbase [Yamato | CPC]
• Minoru Ota was promoted to the rank of rear admiral. ww2dbase [Minoru Ota | CPC]
• Yugure's commanding officer Lieutenant Commander Kiyoshi Kamo was promoted to the rank of commander. ww2dbase [Yugure | CPC]
• Kittyhawk fighters of No. 112 Squadron RAF spotted 30 German Stuka dive bombers with Bf 109 fighters in escort in North Africa. In the ensuing engagement, 7 Stuka aircraft were shot down by surprise before Bf 109 fighters would react; only 1 Kittyhawk fighter was lost in this attack. ww2dbase [CPC]
• US 8th Pursuit Squadron saw its first combat mission over New Guinea island, shooting down two Japanese Zero fighters while losing one P-40 fighter. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Japanese Navy air units received new numbered designations; for example, the Tainan Air Group was renamed Air Group 251. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Captain Yoshio Kamei was named the commanding officer of submarine tender Taigei. ww2dbase [Ryuho | CPC]
• After sundown, men of the 2nd Battalion of US 7th Marine Regiment advanced east across the base of Koli Point to the Metapona River on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands to investigate reported Japanese activity. ww2dbase [Guadalcanal Campaign | CPC]
• Rommel began to devise a plan to withdraw his forces at El Alamein, Egypt westward to Fuka, but he would not activate the plan yet. ww2dbase [Second Battle of El Alamein | CPC]
• Hiroaki Abe was promoted to the rank of vice admiral. ww2dbase [Hiroaki Abe | CPC]
• German III.Panzer Korps captured Alagir on the Terek River in the Caucasus in southern Russia. ww2dbase [Caucasus Campaign | TH]

• Tenryu arrived at Shortland Island, Solomon Islands. Later in the day, reassigned to a supply unit, she embarked food, ammunition, and troops of Japanese 38th Infantry Division. ww2dbase [Tenryu | Shortland Island | CPC]

• Repair ship Akashi completed the repair work for cruiser Chikuma at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Akashi | Truk | CPC]

• Bluie East Two in eastern Greenland began reporting weather. ww2dbase [Bluie East Two | Ikateq, South Greenland | CPC]

• USS Sunfish arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Sunfish (Gato-class) | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• US freighter Hugh Williamson and British freighter Empire Sky departed Hvalfjörður, Iceland in Operation FB. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Hvalfjörður | CPC]

• The first tents were erected in what was to become the "Tent City" to augment the barracks at Ramgarh Training Center. ww2dbase [Ramgarh Training Center | Ramgarh, Bihar | CPC]

• Kamikaze arrived at Kataoka Bay, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan to patrol nearby waters. ww2dbase [Kamikaze | Kataoka, Hokkaido | CPC]

• USS Grayback fired two torpedoes at a Japanese destroyer in the Solomon Sea; both torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Grayback | Solomon Sea | CPC]

• The headquarters of USAAF 25th Bombardment Group was established at Edinburgh Field in Trinidad. ww2dbase [Carlsen Field | The first of its squadrons, 10th Bombardment Squadron operating B-18 Bolo bombers, began to arrive. | CPC]

• About 600 Dutch Jews and 977 German Jews from Berlin were gassed at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Oswiecim | CPC]

• Prototype of the Welkin fighter took its maiden flight. ww2dbase [Welkin | AC]

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