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• Shokaku arrived at Singapore, the new advance base for decisive operations. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• More than 200 US aircraft attacked Rabaul, New Britain. The Japanese launched about 50 fighters in defense. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Columbia arrived at Nissan, Green Islands to support the landings. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Irako departed Truk, Caroline Islands for Yokosuka, Japan as a part of convoy No. 4213. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Thirty aircraft (Model F6F-3) and 45 officers of Night Fighting Squadron 76 (VF(N)-76) departed. Air Group 2 arrived on board. ww2dbase [Main Article | DS]

• Americans stopped a German counter attack at Anzio, Italy. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• The monastery at Monte Cassino, Italy was given advance warning of the aerial bombing to come. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Lucien Lippert, commanding officer of SS Volunteer Sturmbrigade Wallonien, was killed in action at the village of Novo-Buda central Ukraine. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Léon Degrelle was made the commanding officer of SS Volunteer Sturmbrigade Wallonien upon the combat death of his predecessor Lucien Lippert in Ukraine. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Guitarro departed Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States for Chicago, Illinois, United States. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

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