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• USS Cero sank a Japanese trawler east of Japan, hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Ray sank a Japanese patrol vessel west of Japan with her deck gun. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Chub attacked a Japanese convoy in the Java Sea, sinking a transport with one of four torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Wake Island completed her repairs at Apra Harbor, Guam, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Japanese troops began pulling out of China. ww2dbase [TH]
• American troops reached Shuri Castle, Okinawa, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Claude Auchinleck had lunch with Winston Churchill, during which Auchinleck noted to Churchill that William Slim was among the best generals in the British Army and recommended the appointment of Slim to succeed him as Commander-in-Chief, India. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Captain J. E. Leeper was named the commanding officer of USS Shamrock Bay, relieving Captain Frank T. Ward, Jr, while the ship was at Guam, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Composite Squadron 63 (VC-63) departed. ww2dbase [Main Article | DS]

• Pilots of Japanese Navy 631st Naval Air Group were officially assigned to individual submarines of Submarine Squadron 1. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Canadian troops landed on the island of Texel off the Dutch coast unopposed. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Allied convoy JW-67 arrived at the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Puffer departed Midway Atoll for her eighth war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]
• USS Tirante departed Midway for her second war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

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