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• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Truk and departed later on the same day. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | CPC]
• The concentration camp at Szebnie, Poland was closed, and its prisoners deported or executed; Amon Göth was placed in charge of this operation. ww2dbase [Amon Göth | CPC]
• German Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt issued additional orders that supported swift severe reprisals against any acts of resistance. The orders also explicitly attribute any potential innocent civilian casualties the fault of resistance group and not of the German occupation. ww2dbase [Gerd von Rundstedt | CPC]
• Italian Fascists violated Vatican City sovereignty by dispatching troops to arrest several Jews hiding within Vatican City borders. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Savo Island was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Savo Island | CPC]

• 673rd Bomb Squadron (flying A-20 aircraft) of USAAF 417th Bomb Group was transferred from Cape Sudest Airfield to Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua. ww2dbase [Dobodura Airfield | Dobodura | CPC]

• The Drancy Concentration Camp in Paris, France sent its 67th transport for Auschwitz Concentration Camp with more than 1,000 Jews. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Drancy Concentration Camp | Paris | CPC]

• M18 was badly damaged in an American air raid on Wilhelmshaven, Germany. ww2dbase [M18 | Wilhelmshaven, Weser-Ems | CPC]
• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against the submarine facilities at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | RAF Thurleigh | Wilhelmshaven | DS]

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

• The American attempt to break out of the Anzio beachhead in Italy was halted, followed by the first German counterattack against the beachhead. ww2dbase [Battle of Anzio | Anzio, Lazio | TH]

• Yamato undocked from Drydock No. 4 at Kure, Japan. ww2dbase [Yamato | Kure Naval Arsenal | Kure, Hiroshima | CPC]

• Allied convoy RA-56 departed at the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Murmansk | CPC]

• Escort carrier USS Bogue and Convoy TU-7 departed Glasgow, Scotland bound for New York. ww2dbase [Bogue | Glasgow, Scotland | DS]

• USS Mingo departed Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States after her overhaul. ww2dbase [Mingo | Mare Island Navy Yard | Vallejo, California | CPC]

• USS Whale arrived at Midway Atoll, ending her sixth war patrol. ww2dbase [Midway Bases | Whale | Midway | CPC]

3 Feb 1944 Interactive Map