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• USS Enterprise arrived at Pearl Harbor after conducting the Doolittle Raid. ww2dbase [Enterprise | CPC]
• USS Hornet arrived at Pearl Harbor after conducting the Doolittle Raid. ww2dbase [Hornet (Yorktown-class) | CPC]
• Tatsuta Maru departed Davao, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Tatsuta Maru | CPC]
• Destroyer Yukikaze arrived at Davao, Mindanao, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Yukikaze | CPC]
• German submarine U-108 sank British ship Modesta 110 miles northwest of Bermuda at 0831 hours; 18 were killed, 23 survived. ww2dbase [Second Happy Time | CPC]
• USS Spearfish sank Japanese freighter Toba Maru near the mouth of the Lingayen Gulf in the Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Spearfish | CPC]

• 27 Japanese bombers, escorted by 15 fighters, attacked the airfield near Darwin, Australia; fighters of the US 49th Pursuit Group, flying P-40 Warhawk fighters, shot down 10 bombers and 2 fighters without any losses. ww2dbase [Darwin, Northern Territory | CPC]

• Four B-17E Flying Fortress bombers of US 30th Bomb Squadron were launched from Seven Mile airfield near Port Moresby, Australian Papua at 0300 hours to attack Rabaul, New Britain; one of them would ran off the runway in the darkness and became stuck in thick mud, while another crashed into Mount Obree. At 0800 hours, Zero fighters attacked Seven Mile and destroyed the stuck bomber. ww2dbase [Port Moresby | CPC]

• Alexander, Slim, and Stilwell met at Kyaukse, Burma, 25 miles south of Mandalay. It was decided that all Allied troops were to be pulled out of Burma, but Slim demanded that no British nor Indian units would be withdrawn to China even if the Chinese border was closer to that of India's. Meanwhile, Japanese and Chinese troops clashed at Loilem, central Burma. ww2dbase [Invasion of Burma | Kyaukse | CPC]

• Shokaku arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Shokaku | Truk | CPC]
• Chuichi Hara arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Chuichi Hara | Truk | CPC]
• Yugure arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Yugure | Truk | CPC]

• Troops of the Japanese 22nd Infantry Division began to conduct a search in Zhejiang and Jiangxi Provinces on the Chinese coast, burning down and massacring entire villages suspected of assisting the Doolittle Raiders. ww2dbase [Doolittle Raid | CPC]

• Alpino Bagnolini arrived at La Pallice, La Rochelle, France at 0813 hours. ww2dbase [Alpino Bagnolini | La Rochelle, Poitou-Charentes | CPC]
• Comandante Cappellini departed La Pallice, La Rochelle, France at 1000 hours for trials, returning at 1336 hours. ww2dbase [Comandante Cappellini | La Rochelle, Poitou-Charentes | CPC]

• 110 British bombers attacked Rostock, Germany for the third night in a row, causing damage in the town and the nearby Heinkel aircraft factory. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Rostock, Mecklenburg | CPC]
• Karl von Le Suire was awarded the German Cross in Gold. ww2dbase [Karl von Le Suire | CPC]

• USS Nashville arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Nashville | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• Various Italian naval units began departing Italy by road to Vienna, Austria for the ultimate destination the Black Sea via the Danube River. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Captain Taijiro Aoki relieved Captain Hasegawa as the commanding officer of carrier Akagi. ww2dbase [Akagi | CPC]
• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Yokosuka, Japan for her third voyage for the Japanese Navy. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]
• Nachi arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. ww2dbase [Nachi | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]
• Lieutenant Commander Shohei Matsumoto was named the commanding officer of Kamikaze, relieving Lieutenant Commander Kanematsu Hashimoto. ww2dbase [Kamikaze | CPC]

• Hans-Joachim Marseille shot down two fighters north of Ain el Gazala, Libya, first piloted by Squadron Leader Osgood Hanbury (his 53rd kill) and the second piloted by Sergeant Wareham (his 54th kill). ww2dbase [Hans-Joachim Marseille | Gazala | CPC]

• The final US-Filipino stronghold on the island of Luzon in the Philippine Islands, Corregidor, while already under daily bombardment for the past two weeks, began to be subjected to night-time bombardment as well. At 2200 hours, two 240-millimeter shells hit the opening of a tunnel leading into the underground command center, killing 15. ww2dbase [Malinta Tunnel | Invasion of the Philippine Islands | Corregidor, Cavite | CPC]

• The large group of Polish artists and actors arrested in Krakow, Poland were put on a transport for Auschwitz Concentration Camp. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Krakow | CPC]

• Luftwaffe aircraft conducted a raid on Bath, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Battle of Britain | Bath, England | TH]

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