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• Battle of Hill 700: Japanese troops began a 5-day offensive against US positions at Bougainville. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Japanese troops launched a major offensive across the Chindwin River in Burma toward Imphal, India. Meanwhile, another regiment from the Japanese 33rd Division crossed the Manipur River in Burma toward the Burmese-Indian border toward Tiddim, Burma. ww2dbase [Main Article | AC]
• Orde Wingate personally visited the Chowringhee site of Operation Thursday in Burma. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USAAF bombers attacked Berlin, Germany. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• Robert Johnson participated in a large aerial battle over Steinhude Lake, Germany during which the Germans shot down 34 American bombers, but Johnson was able to claim two Bf 109 kills. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Landing ship No. 101 was completed. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) stood out of Majuro, Marshall Islands for Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides. ww2dbase [Main Article | DS]
• USS Alabama was relieved as the flagship of Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher of the US Navy Fast Carrier Task Force at Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• 3,791 Czech Jews were gassed at Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in occupied Poland. The men were killed in Crematorium III and the women and children in Crematorium II. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

• NKVD troops began rounding up Balkars people in the Caucasus region of Russia. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• The keel of submarine Sennet was laid down at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, United States. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

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