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- An IRA gang stole the Irish Army's entire reserve of small arms ammunition - more than one million rounds - from an ammunition fort in Phoenix Park, Dublin. Most of it was recovered over the following days. ww2dbase [AC]
- German SS organization decreed that Polish workers who left their workplace without permission were to be arrested and sent to concentration camps. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
- The British Military Intelligence Section 9 (MI9) was established under the command of Major Norman Crockatt. It was charged with aiding resistance fighters in enemy occupied territory and recovering Allied troops, including downed airmen and prisoners of war. ww2dbase [AC]
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