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• Air Vice Marshal J. O. Andrews became the commanding officer of the No. 12 Group RAF. ww2dbase [CPC]
• The United States began to ration coffee. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Despite serious wounds, RAF Pilot Officer Ron Middleton flew his Stirling bomber back from Turin allowing four crewmen to bale out over Kent before he ran out of fuel. Knowing he could not land and anxious to avoid civilian casualties, he turned the aircraft towards the coast and went into the English Channel with two seriously wounded crewmen still on board. Their bodies were recovered on the next day but Middleton's was not found until it is washed up on the coast in the following February. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. ww2dbase [AC]
• The Soviet Transcaucasus Front launched an offensive against the Germans along the Terek River in the Caucasus region in southern Russia; it was to be halted within days. ww2dbase [Caucasus Campaign | CPC]
• Top American leadership in Washington DC agreed to relieve the 1st Marine Division on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands with the US Army 25th Infantry Division. After sundown, off Tassafaronga Point, US Navy vessels turned back a small group of Japanese destroyers attempting to supply the Japanese garrison. ww2dbase [Guadalcanal Campaign | CPC]
• USS St. Louis shifted from Mare Island to San Francisco, California. ww2dbase [St. Louis | DS]

• USS Nicholas and Shaw arrived off Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands where the convoy they were escorting began unloading men and supplies. Shaw detached and began escort duties to and from Tulagi. ww2dbase [Guadalcanal Campaign | Shaw | Nicholas | Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands | DS]

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

• USS Pollack arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her fourth war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Pollack | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Yokosuka, Japan for her 8th voyage with the Japanese Navy. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]

• Light cruiser Voroshilov bombarded Axis positions near Feodonisi, Russia and was damaged by German naval mines. ww2dbase [Voroshilov | Feodonisi, Krym | CPC]

• British 2nd Parachute Battalion was dropped near Depienne airfield, Tunisia. ww2dbase [Advance into Tunisia | CPC]

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