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• Destroyer Yuzuki arrived at Manila, Luzon, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Friedrich Christiansen was named the commanding officer of the German 25th Army. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Japanese troops captured the airfields at Guilin and Liuchow in China only to find that there were no B-29 facilities at either location. The American B-29 bases were actually further to the northwest at Chengdu in Sichuan Province. ww2dbase [AC]
• Roza Shanina recorded in her diary the death of her lover Misha Panarin. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• A total of 29 V-1 flying bomb sorties were flown by Heinkel bomber crews, some flying twice during the night. The first flights took off from Varrelbusch, the Netherlands at 1758 hours and the last to return landed at 0515 hours on the next day. The night was a bad one again for KG53, two aircraft from 4 Staffel failing to return from the operation: A1+NM piloted by Oberfähnrich Walter Strump and A1+HM by Leutnant Günther Scholz plus another from 3 Staffel; there were no survivors from any of these losses. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | HM]

• USS New Mexico departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for Ulithi, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Croaker arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her second war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

• USS Sterlet departed Saipan, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Ticonderoga reversed course and traveled for the Philippine Islands at flank speed; she was located about 800 miles east of the Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | DS]

• British government lifted the ban on reporting rocket attacks on Britain after Prime Minister Churchill announced to the Parliament that British cities had been under rocket attack "for the last few weeks"; German V-2 rocket attacks had in fact started on 8 Sep 1944, or more than two months prior to Churchill's announcement. On the same day, a V-2 rocket hit Goulson Street in Stepney, London, England United Kingdom, killing 19, seriously injuring 97, and lightly injuring 323. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | CPC]

• Hazel Lee was ordered to go to the Bell Aircraft factory at Niagara Falls, New York, United States to ferry a P-63 Kingcobra fighter to Great Falls, Montana, United States. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

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