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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 [Main Article | TH]
• The US 2nd Marine Division began a westward offensive on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Frederick Aikman shot down a German Fw 190 aircraft. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

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

• Nachi departed Ominato Guard District, Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, Japan at 0715 hours. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• 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 [Main Article | 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 [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

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

13 Jan 1943 Interactive Map