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• Captain Nobuei Morishita relieved Rear Admiral Takeji Ono as the commanding officer of Yamato. ww2dbase [Yamato | CPC]
• Nazi Gauleiter Hans Frank noted in his diary on this date that "At the present time we still have in the General Government perhaps 100,000 Jews." Prior to the German occupation, the area now called the General Government had a Jewish population of about 2,500,000. ww2dbase [Hans Frank | CPC]
• The US coastal minesweeper YMS-30 struck a mine and sank off Anzio, Italy. ww2dbase [AC]
• Destroyer Yukikaze departed Singapore to escort carrier Chitose and convoy HI-32 to Moji, Japan. ww2dbase [Yukikaze | CPC]
• The Wehrmachtbericht bulletin issued on this date by the Wehrmacht headquarters announced the death of nightfighter pilot Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein. ww2dbase [Heinrich | CPC]
• German submarine U-278 sank US freighter Penelope Barker (16 were killed, 56 survived) and U-360 damaged destroyer HMS Obdurate which was forced to leave the escort force of the Allied arctic convoy. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | CPC]
• The newly operational battleship, USS New Jersey (Captain Carl F. Holden), joined Rear Admiral Frederick C. Sherman's TG58.3 (Group Three of Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's Task Force 58) in time to participate in Operation Flintlock, the occupation of the Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [New Jersey | AC]

• Submarine USS Narwhal arrived at Darwin, Australia. ww2dbase [Narwhal | Darwin | DS]

• Carriers Junyo, Hiyo, and Ryuho delivered 62 A6M, 18 D3A, and 18 B5N aircraft to Rabaul, New Britain. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | Rabaul, New Britain | CPC]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Truk | CPC]

• Patrol Boat No. 102 arrived at Balikpapan, Dutch East Indies at 1500 hours. ww2dbase [Stewart | Balikpapan, Borneo | CPC]

• Philipp was formally dismissed as the governor of Hessen-Nassau, Germany. ww2dbase [Philipp | CPC]

• USS Alabama departed Funafuti, Ellice Islands. ww2dbase [Alabama | Funafuti | CPC]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of ARGUS-22 departed. More of ACORN-21 arrived. Part of ACORN-21 departed. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• General Eberhard von Mackensen assumed overall control of forces in the Anzio, Italy area. ww2dbase [Battle of Anzio | Anzio, Lazio | CPC]

• Landing ship No. 101 was launched. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]

• USS Archerfish fired four torpedoes at a cargo ship two files off of the east coast of Taito Prefecture, Taiwan; all torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Archerfish | CPC]

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