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• Colonel Hubert Zemke took command of 61st Fighter Squadron of USAAF 56th Fighter Group, relieving Francis Gabreski. ww2dbase [Francis Gabreski | CPC]

• The three-day ANZAC Conference began in Canberra, Australia. ww2dbase [Anzac Conference | Canberra | CPC]

• Patrol Boat No. 102 arrived at Balikpapan, Dutch East Indies at 1200 hours. ww2dbase [Stewart | Balikpapan, Borneo | CPC]

• Resistance fighters blew up the Usines Ratier airscrew works, in southwetern France, wrecking it so thoroughly that it never resumed production in wartime. The charges with 30-minute fuses, laid while German guards patrolled the yards outside, detonated with such force that one 30-ton press was sent 25ft into the air. ww2dbase [The French Resistance | AC]

• USS San Juan arrived off Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii and rejoined USS Saratoga's task group. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | San Juan | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | CPC]

• The Irish government announced the arrest of two Irish traitors, parachuted in from German aircraft. ww2dbase [TH]

• British 46th Infantry Division attacked German positions near the junction of the Garigliano River and the Liri River in Italy. ww2dbase [Battle of Monte Cassino | CPC]
• An Italian motor torpedo boat raid on Allied-held Naples, Italy was aborted. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Yokosuka, Japan for her 17th voyage with the Japanese Navy. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]

• USS Haddock fired 6 torpedoes on a Japanese warship convoy 100 miles east of Guam, Mariana Islands, damaging carrier Unyo with 3 hits. Unyo would sail to Saipan, Mariana Islands for temporary repairs. ww2dbase [Haddock | CPC]

• German troops managed to avoid being encircled at Novgorod, Russia. ww2dbase [Novgorod | TH]

• Submarine USS Spearfish stopped briefly at Johnston Island to top off her fuel tanks before resuming her tenth war patrol. ww2dbase [Spearfish | Johnston Island | DS]

19 Jan 1944 Interactive Map