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• USS Cod sank a Japanese merchant ship by torpedo. ww2dbase [Cod | CPC]
• USS Tang sank Japanese transport Yamashimo Maru with four torpedoes. ww2dbase [Tang | CPC]
• USS Snook attacked a large Japanese convoy in the Pacific Ocean. After sneaking past 11 escort vessels, she fired five torpedoes, two of which hit and sank the passenger-cargo ship Koyo Maru. ww2dbase [Snook | CPC]
• A British Swordfish aircraft sank German submarine U-713 near Allied convoy JW-57; all 50 aboard were killed. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | CPC]

• Three Italian motor torpedo boats attacked the Allied beachhead at Anzio, Italy before dawn, causing no damage and losing two boats. ww2dbase [Battle of Anzio | Anzio, Lazio | CPC]

• USS New Mexico arrived at Majuro, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [New Mexico | Majuro | CPC]

• USS Sunfish attacked a Japanese convoy off the Mariana Islands, sinking transports Kunishima Maru and Shinyubari Maru, hitting them with 7 of 13 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Sunfish (Gato-class) | CPC]

• 39 Polish boys between the age of 13 to 17 originally from the Zamosc region were brought from Auschwitz II-Birkenau to block 20 at Auschwitz I. They were told that they would be trained to be nurses, but that evening they were killed with phenol heart injections given by SS-Unterscharführer Scherpe. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Oswiecim | CPC]

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