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• In India, Mahatma Gandhi was released from imprisonment due to health reasons. ww2dbase [CPC]
• British Army junior officer John Randle took out a Japanese machine gun position in Burma, then purposefully sacrificed himself to take out a bunker with a grenade. He was posthumously awarded a Victoria Cross. ww2dbase [CPC]
• The A7M1 Reppu fighter took its first flight. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• During the day, 25 Japanese Zero fighters attacked Bishenpur, India. After sundown, Japanese troops attacked Tengnoupal, India. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Rudolf Höss received orders to travel to Auschwitz Concentration Camp in occupied Poland. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Balikpapan, Dutch Borneo. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• USS Pompon departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her fifth war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]
• USS Miami arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of ARGUS-17 departed. ww2dbase [Main Article | DS]

• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) underway from Majuro, Marshall Islands bound for Oahu, Hawaii. ww2dbase [Main Article | DS]

• Younger workers in the Lodz ghetto in Poland began a hunger strike in protest of the watery soup that made up the bulk of their daily food intake. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Soviet troops bombarded Sevastopol, Russia with Katyusha rocket launchers. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Allied convoy RA-59 arrived at Loch Ewe, Scotland, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Pollack departed Midway Atoll for her tenth war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

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