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• US aircraft attacked Rabaul, New Britain. The Japanese shot down 8 P-38, 1 F6F, 1 F4U, 1 SBD, and 1 TBF aircraft. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | Rabaul, New Britain | CPC]

• Destroyer USS Saufley departed Tulagi, Solomon Islands as an escort for a convoy of supply ships bound for Bougainville. ww2dbase [Saufley | Tulagi, Solomon Islands | DS]

• US 45th Fighter Squadron, flying P-40 fighters, was transferred from Baker Island of Ellice Islands to Makin, Gilbert Islands. ww2dbase [Makin | CPC]

• After a routine overhaul, submarine USS Spearfish was ready for sea. She departed Pearl Harbor on her tenth war patrol. ww2dbase [Spearfish | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]

• British X Corps attacked the western end of the German Gustav Line in Italy. ww2dbase [Battle of Monte Cassino | TH, CPC]
• An Italian motor torpedo boat raid on Allied-held Naples, Italy was aborted. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Shokaku departed Yokosuka, Japan to join Zuikaku in the Inland Sea. ww2dbase [Shokaku | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]
• Light carrier Ryuho entered the drydocks at Innoshima, Hiroshima, Japan. ww2dbase [Ryuho | Innoshima, Hiroshima | CPC]

• USS Whale claimed sinking a Japanese freighter in the Philippine Sea, hiting her with 3 of 9 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Whale | Philippine Sea | CPC]

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