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• The call-up age for unmarried British women was lowered to 19. ww2dbase [TH]
• Casablanca Conference between Roosevelt and Churchill began. ww2dbase [Casablanca Conference | TH]
• The US 2nd Marine Division began a westward offensive on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Guadalcanal Campaign | CPC]
• Frederick Aikman shot down a German Fw 190 aircraft. ww2dbase [Frederick Aikman | CPC]

• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against the railroad production facilities at Lille, France. ww2dbase [RAF Thurleigh | Bombing of Cities in France and Low Countries | Lille | DS]

• Dietrich Bonhoeffer became engaged to Maria von Wedemeyer. ww2dbase [Dietrich Bonhoeffer | CPC]

• Nachi departed Ominato Guard District, Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, Japan at 0715 hours. ww2dbase [Nachi | Mutsu, Aomori | CPC]
• Yugure and Ariake departed Kure, Japan at 1500 hours. ww2dbase [Yugure | Kure, Hiroshima | CPC]

• Destroyer USS Saufley arrived at Nouméa, New Caledonia. ww2dbase [Saufley | Nouméa | DS]

• USS Whale sank Japanese freighter Iwashiro Maru in the waters between Kwajalein, Marshall Islands and Truk, Caroline Islands, hitting her with 3 of 4 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Whale | CPC]

• Three transports arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp, each containing 1,210 German Jews from Berlin (1,083 of them were sent directly to the gas chambers), 750 Dutch Jews (88 men and 101 women were registered, and the remaining 561 were gassed), and 2,000 Jews of Zambrów ghetto in Poland (148 men and 50 women were registered, and the remaining 1,802 were gassed). ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Oswiecim | CPC]

• Robert Johnson arrived at RAF Kings Cliffe, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Robert Johnson | Kings Cliffe, England | CPC]

• Auxiliary Aircraft Carrier USS Card departed Puget Sound, Washington bound for San Diego, California. ww2dbase [Card | Puget Sound Navy Yard | Puget Sound, Washington | DS]

13 Jan 1943 Interactive Map