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• Léon Degrelle was awarded the Close Combat Clasp in Bronze. ww2dbase [Léon Degrelle | CPC]
• USS Tang was delivered to the US Navy. ww2dbase [Tang | CPC]
• USS Flying Fish departed for her eighth war patrol with Lieutenant Commander R. D. Risser in command. ww2dbase [Flying Fish | CPC]
• Destroyer Yuzuki was assigned to Destroyer Division 30 of Destroyer Squadron 3 of the Eighth Fleet. ww2dbase [Yuzuki | CPC]
• Remy Van Lierde shot down a German Bf 110 fighter, which was his sixth and final kill. ww2dbase [Remy Van Lierde | CPC]
• Light carrier Ryuho departed Manila, Luzon, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Ryuho | CPC]

• USS Luce began a period of anti-submarine patrol off Attu in the Aleutian Islands. ww2dbase [Luce | CPC]

• East of the Azores, two pilots flying from escort carrier USS Bogue observed German submarine U-238 on the surface and attacked. The U-Boat put up considerable anti-aircraft fire and the submarine escaped with two killed and five wounded by machine gun fire and minimal damage to the boat. ww2dbase [Bogue | Conclusion of the Battle of the Atlantic | DS]

• Shortly after midnight, US destroyers USS Ralph Talbot & Helm along with Australian destroyers HMAS Arunta & Warramunga shelled the Ring Ring Plantation area of Gasmata, New Britain with the aid of flares dropped by PBY Catalina "Black Cat" aircraft.. ww2dbase [Ralph Talbot | New Britain | DS]
• After dark, Australian Beaufort aircraft from Goodenough Island off the tip of Australian Papua attacked Rabaul, New Britain. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | Rabaul, New Britain | CPC]
• In the early morning, a US Navy PBY aircraft sank Japanese passenger ship Himalaya Maru 10 miles south of New Hanover Island in the Bismarck Islands. Many of the 2,400 passengers were killed, while the rest were rescued by other ships in the convoy. ww2dbase [New Hanover, New Ireland | CPC]
• Shortly after midnight, US destroyers USS Ralph Talbot & Helm along with Australian destroyers HMAS Arunta & Warramunga shelled the Ring Ring Plantation area of Gasmata, New Britain with the aid of flares dropped by PBY Catalina "Black Cat" aircraft.. ww2dbase [Solomon Islands Campaign | Richard O'Connor | Helm | New Britain | DS]

• 4 RAF Mosquito aircraft attacked Essen, Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Essen | CPC]

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

• Kamoi departed Car Nicobar, Andaman Islands. ww2dbase [Kamoi | Car Nicobar, Andaman Islands | CPC]

• British troops captured Fossacesia, Italy. ww2dbase [Advance to the Gustav Line | Fossacesia, Abruzzo | CPC]

• Naka departed Kwajalein, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Naka | Kwajalein | CPC]

• Rudolf Höss served his final day as the commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp in occupied Poland. ww2dbase [Rudolf Höss | Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Oswiecim | CPC]

• Vice Admiral Ryozo Fukuda was named the commanding officer of Takao Guard District in southern Taiwan. ww2dbase [Takao Guard District | Takao | CPC]

• Submarine Golet was commissioned into service at Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States with Lieutenant Commander James M. Clement in command. ww2dbase [Golet | Manitowoc, Wisconsin | CPC]

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