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• Yamato was detected by the radar of USS Batfish at 2330 hours, but Batfish was unable to close in for an attack. ww2dbase [Yamato | CPC]
• 498 RAF aircraft (496 Lancaster and 2 Halifax) attacked Braunschweig, Germany, with 49 aircraft lost; German reports noted only 10 homes destroyed and 14 killed. As a diversion, 17 RAF Mosquito aircraft attacked Magdeburg and Berlin. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | CPC]
• German leader Ernst Kaltenbrunner ordered to insert more informers in the foreign forced laborers population. ww2dbase [Ernst Kaltenbrunner | CPC]
• USS Sunfish began her sixth war patrol. ww2dbase [Sunfish (Gato-class) | CPC]

• 36 SBD, 16 TBF, and about 80 fighters from Munda Airfield in New Georgia attacked Rabaul, New Britain after a stop at Piva Airfield on Bougainville to refuel. 84 A6M intercepted them over New Ireland, but most American aircraft were able to make their way to Rabaul to commence their attacks. The Japanese lost 3 A6M fighters and the Americans lost 2 SBD, 1 TBF, 5 F4U, and 2 F6F aircraft. Japanese shipping in Simpson Harbor at Rabaul suffered 3 direct hits and 16 near misses. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | Rabaul, New Britain | CPC]
• About 17 prisoners of war were beheaded by men of 81st Naval Garrison Unit of the Japanese Navy at Rabaul, New Britain as reprisal for American air raids on the town. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | Rabaul, New Britain | CPC]

• 82 RAF aircraft attacked German flying bomb sites at Ailly, Bonneton, and Bristillerie in France. ww2dbase [Bombing of Cities in France and Low Countries | CPC]

• USS Whale received a message from USS Seawolf, noting that a Japanese convoy was heading her way. ww2dbase [Whale | CPC]

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