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- Shokaku arrived at Singapore, the new advance base for decisive operations. ww2dbase [Shokaku | CPC]
- Acting on intelligence intercepts, the Hunter-Killer group centered around escort carrier USS Card concentrated their search efforts to an area in the mid-Atlantic 750 miles west of the Canary Islands where a northbound Japanese submarine was supposed to be meeting with two German submarines. With day and night extended air searches, as well as searches by the surface ships, fresh oil slicks were noted but no submarines were located. ww2dbase [Card | Conclusion of the Battle of the Atlantic | DS]
- More than 200 US aircraft attacked Rabaul, New Britain. The Japanese launched about 50 fighters in defense. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | Rabaul, New Britain | CPC]
- USS Columbia arrived at Nissan, Green Islands to support the landings. ww2dbase [Columbia | Nissan, Green Islands | CPC]
- Irako departed Truk, Caroline Islands for Yokosuka, Japan as a part of convoy No. 4213. ww2dbase [Irako | Truk | CPC]
- Oberleutnant zur See Werner Striegler relinguishes command of UIT-25 to take command of UIT-23. On the same day, UIT-23 departed Batavia, Java, Dutch East Indies with 135 tons of rubber and 70 tons of tin aboard for France. ww2dbase [Reginaldo Giuliani | Luigi Torelli | Batavia, Java | 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 [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]
- Americans stopped a German counter attack at Anzio, Italy. ww2dbase [Battle of Anzio | Anzio, Lazio | TH]
- The monastery at Monte Cassino, Italy was given advance warning of the aerial bombing to come. ww2dbase [Battle of Monte Cassino | Cassino, Lazio | CPC]
- Lucien Lippert, commanding officer of SS Volunteer Sturmbrigade Wallonien, was killed in action at the village of Novo-Buda central Ukraine. ww2dbase [Lucien Lippert | Novo-Buda, Donets'ka | 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 [Léon Degrelle | Donets'ka | CPC]
- USS Guitarro departed Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States for Chicago, Illinois, United States. ww2dbase [Guitarro | Manitowoc, Wisconsin | CPC]




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