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• HMAS Australia was damaged by Japanese special attack aircraft at Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Mississippi was damaged by Japanese special attack aircraft at Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Light carrier Ryuho, sailing with Japanese convoy HI-87, came under air attack off Taiwan and claimed to have enaged 12 US TBF aircraft and shot down 1. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]
• USS Colorado was damaged by friendly fire at Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• The US Sixth Army invaded Luzon Island, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• British troops entered Thebes, Greece. ww2dbase [TH]
• Heinz Guderian visited Adolf Hitler to personally request reinforcements for the Eastern Front. The two would get into a large argument. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• ShCh-307 attacked a merchant ship southwest of Liepaja, Latvia; both torpedoes missed, and ShCh-307 was subjected to depth charging by German auxiliary patrol vessel V 317. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• US Third Army attacked towards Houffalize, Belgium, on the southern flank of the Ardennes bulge. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]

• Indian 19th Division captured Shwebo, Burma. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Dong Zhao completed his studies at the Army War College and was named the commanding officer of the 38th Army. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Sennet received minor repairs at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

• 15 SB2C, 6 TBM, and 7 F6F aircraft from USS Ticonderoga attacked their secondary target Heito Airfield in southern Taiwan (the primary target, Toyohara Arfield in the Taichu area, was covered in clouds), damaging the facilities at the loss of a SB2C aircraft of Air Group 80 crewed by Lieutenant Palmer and Aviation Radioman's Mate Third Class Adelbert Ring. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | DS, CPC]
• USS Columbia was struck by a special attack aircraft off the Philippine Islands, killing 24 and wounding 97. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Luce arrived off Lingayen Gulf, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) launched attacks on Formosa (Taiwan) in direct support of the Lingayen landings on Luzon, Philippines. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | DS]
• US Navy Task Force 38 attacked airfields on the Japanese-held Chinese island of Taiwan. ww2dbase [CPC]
• 39 USAAF B-29 bombers from Sichuan Province, China dropped 293 tons of bombs on Kirun (now Keelung), Taiwan. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Henry Heimlich accepted a volunteer mission; he would not find out until later that he was destined for the interior of China. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

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