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• Light carrier Hosho was assigned to the Combined Fleet as a training carrier. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]
• Luzk and Rovno, Ukraine were captured by the Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front. ww2dbase [TH]
• Stalin allowed USAAF aircraft to use Russian bases. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]

• Edmund Herring was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of ARGUS-15 departed. ww2dbase [Main Article | DS]

• Germans defeated American troops in the Battle of Cisterna near Anzio, Italy. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• A transport from Trieste, Italy arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Most of the prisoners were sent to the gas chambers upon arrival. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]
• In Poland, the Warsaw area HSSPF, SS-Brigadeführer Franz Kutschera, was assassinated at the gate to his headquarters. ww2dbase [TH]

• USS Tunny completed her repairs at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, California, United States. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

2 Feb 1944 Interactive Map