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• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Saipan. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | CPC]
• British bombers attacked München, Germany. During this attack, the Spinosaurus fossil specimen BSP 1912 VIII 19 was destroyed at the Paläontologische Staatssammlung München (Bavarian State Collection of Paleontology). ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | CPC]
• Allied bombers conducted a raid on Belgrade, Yugoslavia. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Douglas MacArthur disembarked USS Nashville via PT-115. ww2dbase [Douglas MacArthur | Nashville | CPC]
• U-23 completed her fourteenth war patrol. ww2dbase [U-23 | CPC]

• 3rd Battalion of US 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional) marched 8 miles through the jungles of northern Burma toward Myitkyina. 5 men passed out from heat exhaustion. ww2dbase [Battle of Myitkyina | CPC]

• After two days of heavy fighting Douglas MacArthur's forces subdued Hollandia and Aitape in Dutch New Guinea, cutting off 50,000 Japanese troops of the Pacific-based 18th Army. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | Dutch New Guinea | AC]
• Patrol Boat No. 102 arrived at Tarakan, Dutch East Indies at 0146 hours and departed at 1220 hours. ww2dbase [Stewart | Tarakan, Borneo | CPC]

• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against aircraft facilities at Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | RAF Thurleigh | Oberpfaffenhofen | DS]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of ARGUS-15 departed. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• USS Haddock fired 4 torpedoes at a convoy 100 miles east of Okinawa, Japan, sinking auxiliary minesweeper Noshiro Maru No. 2 with 1 hit. ww2dbase [Haddock | CPC]

• American forces conducted marshalling and embarkation drills at Slapton, Devonshire, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Exercise Tiger | Slapton, England | CPC]

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