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• Vichy French government allowed its citizens to join the German SS organization. ww2dbase [CPC]
• German SS troops massacred all Jewish children under the age of 13 in Kovno, Lithuania. ww2dbase [CPC]
• The government of the United Kingdom banned foreign travel. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Japanese 58th Regiment launched an all-out attack on Sangshak, India. Brigadier Maxwell Hope-Thompson, commanding officer of the defending Allied troops, ordered a retreat from Sangshak at 1800 hours. On the same day, William Slim requested the British 2nd Division to help defend nearby Dimapur. ww2dbase [Battle of Imphal-Kohima | CPC]
• Japanese troops attacked the Broadway site of Operation Thursday in Burma. ww2dbase [Operation Thursday | CPC]
• HMS CUMBERLAND met US Task Group 58.5 (US Aircraft Carrier SARATOGA and 3 USN destroyers) SW off Cocos Islands with ships of Eastern Fleet. ww2dbase [Saratoga | Cumberland | DS]

• USS Ray arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her third war patrol. ww2dbase [Ray | Fremantle, Western Australia | CPC]

• P-40 and Beaufighter aircraft of Royal Australian Air Force 78 Squadron operating out of Kiriwina, Australian Papua misidentified two United States Navy PT Boats in Bangula Bay, New Britain and began multiple strafing runs. For the most part, the PT Boats did not return fire and in the end, PT-353 and PT-121 both burned and sank with 8 men killed, 14 wounded, and 13 rescued. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | PT-class | Bangula Bay, New Britain | DS]

• Allied convoy JW-58 departed Liverpool, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Liverpool, England | CPC]

• The US Supreme Court granted a review of Fred Korematsu's case. ww2dbase [Fred Korematsu | Washington | CPC]

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