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• US bombers unintentionally hit Schaffhausen, Switzerland, leading to official protests and reparation payments. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | TH]
• The Japanese Navy 12th Air Fleet was reorganized to contain two air flotillas, one communication unit, one weather observation unit, and one air base unit. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Pedro del Valle was made Commanding General of the Third Corps Artillery, US III Marine Amphibious Corps. ww2dbase [Pedro del Valle | CPC]
• The Japanese attack on the Broadway site of Operation Thursday in Burma was repulsed. ww2dbase [Operation Thursday | CPC]
• Light carrier Ryuho arrived at Saipan, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Ryuho | CPC]
• USS Flying Fish sank a Japanese transport off Okinawa, Japan, hitting her with 2 of 2 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Flying Fish | CPC]
• Masafumi Arima was assigned to the fleet command for the Central Pacific area. ww2dbase [Masafumi Arima | CPC]
• Cruiser Köln was recommissioned for training of cadet engineers with Fregattenkapitän Hellmuth Strobel in command. ww2dbase [Köln | CPC]

• The crew of USS Harder rescued a downed aviator on a small island west of Woleai, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Harder | Woleai | CPC]
• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) aviators struck the island of Woleai in the Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Yorktown (Essex-class) | Woleai | DS]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 100 commissioned this date. (AG-100 is a pilot replacement air group) ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• Japanese troops captured Nippon Hill near Imphal, India. ww2dbase [Battle of Imphal-Kohima | Imphal, Manipur | CPC]

• USS Portland screened fleet carriers as their aircraft struck enemy installations located in the Woleai, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Palau Islands and Ulithi Islands Campaigns | Portland | DS]

• Allied bombers attacked Schaffhausen, Switzerland, mistaking it for the German city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein, killing 40 people; interestingly, a group of small factories producing munitions and aircraft parts to be sold to Germany was destroyed in this accidental raid. ww2dbase [Schaffhausen | CPC]

• Fuel refinery No. 6 came online at Takao Guard District in southern Taiwan. ww2dbase [Takao Guard District | Takao | CPC]

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