22 Jan 1943



- Allied forces won the battle at Sanananda, New Guinea. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 2 | TH]
- Ludwig Beck and other anti-Hitler conspirators met at the home of Peter Yorck von Wartenburg. ww2dbase [Ludwig Beck | CPC]
- The RAF conducted its first combat operation using the new Mitchell Mk.II bombers. Six aircraft from No. 98 and No. 180 Squadrons were sent out to attack oil installations at Ghent in Belgium. One aircraft was shot down by flak over the target and two others were lost when attacked by Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighters. Following this disaster the RAF's Mitchell squadrons were stood down to concentrate on developing new tactics to fend off enemy fighters. ww2dbase [B-25 Mitchell | Ghent | AC]
- Tatsuta Maru arrived at Nagasaki, Japan at 0400 hours. The 663 Canadian prisoners of war aboard were disembarked where they would be sent to work in the mines as forced laborers. ww2dbase [Tatsuta Maru | Nagasaki | CPC]
- German 6th Army engineers reported that the small Stalingradskaya Airfield close to the center of Stalingrad, Russia was ready to receive transport aircraft. Several He 111 aircraft arrived later on the same day with supplies, some of which would be fatally damaged when their landing gears became caught in bomb craters on the runway. ww2dbase [Battle of Stalingrad | Stalingrad | CPC]
- The "Bafile" Battalion of the "San Marco" naval infantry regiment of Italian Navy captured Djebel Bou Dabouss massif in Tunisia, capturing 200 prisoners of war at the cost of 24 killed and 65 wounded. ww2dbase [CPC]




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