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• Taking advantage of their range, US bombers began hitting Marienburg and Posen in eastern Germany. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• The escort carrier USS Block Island was torpedoed by a German U-boat while on anti-submarine patrol near the Azores. This was the first and only US Navy Aircraft Carrier to be lost in the Atlantic Ocean. ww2dbase [AC]
• The Anglo-Indian attack on Ninthoukgong, India was halted after capturing the northern half of the town. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) departed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii for the Central Pacific. ww2dbase [Main Article | DS]
• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of Air Group 28 arrived on board. Part of CASU-48, CASU-49, arrived on board. ww2dbase [Main Article | DS]

• US 1st Armored Division engaged German defensive positions of the Caesar C Line south of Rome, Italy. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Nachi refueled from oiler Teiyo Maru in Kawauchi Bay, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]
• Destroyer Yuzuki arrived at Sasebo, Japan for refitting. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

• USS Permit damaged a Japanese transport between Caroline Islands and Mariana Islands, hitting her with 1 of 8 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Whale released destroyer USS Cassin from escort duty off Majuro, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

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