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• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Manila, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | CPC]
• USAAF again bombed the synthetic oil plant at Lüne-Merseburg in eastern Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | TH]
• Submarine Charr was launched, sponsored by Mrs. William Orkney. ww2dbase [Charr | CPC]
• USS Pompon attacked a Japanese transport south of Japan; all 3 torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Pompon | CPC]
• British entertainer Noël Coward arrived in Ceylon aboard destroyer HMS Rapid. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Parts of Air Group 18 on board. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]
• USS Archerfish departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her third war patrol. ww2dbase [Archerfish | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• US Staff Sergeant Rudolph Davila risked personal harm near Artena, Italy to lead four machine gun crews to provide support for a beleaguered friendly rifle company, and then personally charged into a German-held village to kill several German infantrymen and eliminated two German machine gun positions. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross medal for this action. ww2dbase [Rudolph Davila | Battle of Anzio | Artena, Lazio | CPC]

• The keel of landing ship No. 110 was laid down by Osaka Zosen. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]

• USS Whale departed Majuro, Marshall Islands for her eighth war patrol; destroyer USS Cassin escorted her out to sea. ww2dbase [Whale | Majuro | CPC]

• Patrol Boat No. 102, Patrol Boat No. 104, destroyer Tsuga, Submarine Chaser No. 38, and netlayer Korei Maru departed Manila, Philippines at 1300 hours to escort convoy H-27 consisted of Shinno Maru, Kohoku Maru, Kosei Maru, Muroran Maru, Shiroganesan Maru, Taiyu Maru, Teiyu Maru, Juzan Maru, and Koshu Maru No. 1. ww2dbase [Stewart | Manila | CPC]

• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against industrial targets in the Ruhr Valley, Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | RAF Thurleigh | Thurleigh, England | DS]

• USS Golet departed Midway Atoll with Lieutenant James S. Clark as her new commanding officer. ww2dbase [Golet | Midway Bases | Midway | CPC]

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