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• The British Eighth Army captured Tripoli, Libya. ww2dbase [TH]
• Soviet troops captured Armavir, Russia. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• The US Army 25th Division captured the high ground south of Kokumbona, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• General Dwight D. Eisenhower was tasked with planning the invasion of Sicily, Italy with the target date set as the period of the favourable Jul 1943 moon. General Harold Alexander, Eisenhower's deputy, would be in overall command of all Allied land forces during the operation. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | AC]

• The US freighter City of Flint (the same vessel that had been involved in a major diplomatic incident in Oct 1939) was sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by the German submarine U-575. ww2dbase [AC]

• After sundown and into the following day, American cruisers and destroyers bombarded Kolombangara, New Georgia, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Destroyer Yukikaze arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Tatsuta Maru departed Nagasaki, Japan and arrived at Sasebo, Japan later on the same day. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]
• Irako sailed south from off Mizunoko Lighthouse, Oita, Japan with torpedo boat Hato and submarine chaser CH-39 in escort. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• The German-controlled Gumrak Airfield on the western side of Stalingrad, Russia was taken by Soviet troops. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH, CPC]

23 Jan 1943 Interactive Map