11 Jan 1943



- Tatsuta Maru arrived at Singapore. ww2dbase [Tatsuta Maru | CPC]
- Soviet troops launched the Novorossiysk-Maikop Offensive Operation in the Caucasus region of southern Russia. ww2dbase [Caucasus Campaign | CPC]
- Douglas MacArthur's headquarters officially declared Kenneth Walker missing after his aircraft was shot down by Japanese fighters on 5 Jan 1943; Walker personally participated on that mission against orders. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Vernon Baker was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant. ww2dbase [Vernon Baker | CPC]
- Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Truk | CPC]
- A transport of 750 Dutch Jews departed from Westerbork Concentration Camp in the Netherlands for Sobibór Concentration Camp in Poland. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Westerbork Concentration Camp | Hooghalen, Drenthe | CPC]
- Allied convoy RA-51 arrived at Loch Ewe, Scotland, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Loch Ewe, Scotland | CPC]
- USS Alabama arrived at Chesapeake Bay on the east coast of the United States from Casco Bay, Maine, United States. ww2dbase [Alabama | Chesapeake Bay | CPC]
- Chinese Ambassador Wei Daoming and US Secretary of State Cordell Hull signed the Treaty for Relinquishment of Extraterritorial Rights in China in Washington DC, United States. Through this treaty, the Americans gave up territorial claims in China and gave up the American portion of the Boxer Protocol. ww2dbase [Washington | CPC]




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