19 Jan 1944
Australia



Australia
- The three-day ANZAC Conference began in Canberra, Australia. ww2dbase [Main Article | 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 [Main Article | AC]
- USS San Juan arrived off Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii and rejoined USS Saratoga's task group. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | 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 [Main Article | 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 [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | 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 [Main Article | CPC]
- German troops managed to avoid being encircled at Novgorod, Russia. ww2dbase [TH]




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