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• German forces sent to relieve the Korsun pocket in Ukraine were now only 10 miles away. ww2dbase [TH]
• Ommaney Bay was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Ommaney Bay | CPC]
• 6 B-25 bombers escorted by 20 P-40 and P-51 fighters the US 14th Air Force and the Chinese 32nd Fighter Squadron attacked the Kai Tek Airfield, Hong Kong. Fighters of the Japanese 85th Sentai rose to intercept, shooting down one B-25 bomber, 4 P-40 fighters, and 2 P-51 fighters. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Cruiser USS Indianapolis and escort USS Bailey arrived at Kwajalein. ww2dbase [Bailey | DS]

• USS Honolulu and USS St. Louis arrived at Tulagi, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Honolulu | St. Louis | Tulagi, Solomon Islands | DS]

• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against Frankfurt, Germany but diverted due to weather and bombed Saarbrücken, Germany. ww2dbase [RAF Thurleigh | Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Saarbrücken | DS]

• USS Finback arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her seventh war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Finback | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• In the Indian Ocean the German supply ship, Charlotte Schliemann, was sighted by a Catalina aircraft while refuelling submarine U-532. The submarine dived but on resurfacing was unable to find her supply ship. ww2dbase [AC]

• Major General John Lucas ordered a counterattack from the Anzio beachhead in Italy, which was repulsed by the Germans which had intercepted Allied radio communications and had prepared for this attack. ww2dbase [Battle of Anzio | Anzio, Lazio | CPC]
• The US II Corps attack toward Monte Cassino, Italy was halted by German troops. Major General Harry Dimoline of Indian 4th Division requested the aerial bombing of the abbey atop Monte Cassino. ww2dbase [Battle of Monte Cassino | Harry Dimoline | Cassino, Lazio | CPC]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Kure, Japan. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Kure, Hiroshima | CPC]

• USS Permit fired 4 torpedoes at a Japanese carrier in the Pacific Ocean; all torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Permit | CPC]
• As the Submarine USS Spearfish withdrew from the convoy she had attacked the day before, she ran into a different Japanese convoy of eleven ships. Spearfish fired four torpedoes at one of the merchant ships with one hit. The extent of damage was not observed. ww2dbase [Spearfish | South China Sea | DS]

• Allied convoy RA-56 arrived at Loch Ewe, Scotland, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Loch Ewe, Scotland | CPC]

11 Feb 1944 Interactive Map