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• USS Flying Fish attacked a Japanese cruiser in the Pacific Ocean; all six torpedoes fired missed. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• After dark, the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal began with Japanese ships wiping out the American destroyer screen. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Three squadrons of US B-24 bombers moved from Iron Range airfield in northern Queensland, Australia to Port Moresby, Australian Papua and prepared for a strike on the under-construction airfield at Munda Point, Bougainville, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Tadashi Kaneko was shot down and killed in the Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Two transports containing a total of 2,500 Jews from Ciechanow ghettos, Poland arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp; 633 men and 135 were registered into the camp, and the remaining 1,732 were killed in gas chambers. On the same day, 1,500 Jews from Bialystok District 2 in Poland arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp; 82 men and 379 women were registered into the came, and the remaining 839 were killed in gas chambers. Finally, the SS doctors of Auschwitz Concentration Camp sent 110 prisoners from the Auschwitz I hospital to Birkenau Concentration Camp to be killed in the gas chambers. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

• The Taihoku Prisoners of War Camp No. 6 near Taihoku (now Taipei) was opened; on the same day, British prisoners of war from Singapore arrived on Taiwan via Kirun (now Keelung), destined for this camp. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• The Kinkaseki Prisoners of War Camp in northeastern Taiwan was opened. ww2dbase [CPC]

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