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- USS Tunny made rendezvous with USS Pilotfish and USS Pintado and formed a wolfpack; the group was nicknamed Blair Blasters. ww2dbase [Tunny | CPC]
- Former Chinese light cruiser Ninghai, now in Japanese service, was renamed Ioshima. ww2dbase [Ninghai | CPC]
- Gao Youxin, leading two P-40N Warhawk fighters based in Xi'an, China, claimed two Japanese Ki-43 aircraft. ww2dbase [Gao Youxin | CPC]
- Edward Brooks arrived in Normandy, France ahead of his US 2nd Armored Division. ww2dbase [Edward Brooks | Basse-Normandie | CPC]
- The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against aircraft facilities at Rennes–Saint-Jacques, France. ww2dbase [RAF Thurleigh | Bombing of Cities in France and Low Countries | Saint-Jacques | DS]
- USS Tang departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, starting her third war patrol in the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea. ww2dbase [Tang | Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
- Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of CASU-43 arrived on board. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]
- US Fifth Army captured Civita Castellana, Italy. ww2dbase [Advance to the Gothic Line | Civita Castellana, Lazio | TH]
- Battleships USS New Mexico, USS Idaho, and USS Pennsylvania with aircraft carriers USS Corregidor and USS Coral Sea and cruisers USS Honolulu and USS St. Louis arrived at Roi at Kwajalein, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [St. Louis | Corregidor | New Mexico | Anzio | Pennsylvania | Walden Ainsworth | Honolulu | Roi, Kwajalein | DS]
- USS Harder boarded six British coast watcher on the coast of North Borneo. ww2dbase [Harder | CPC]
- Violette Szabo and three others boarded a B-24 aircraft at RAF Harrington in Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom and were paradropped near Sussac near Limoges, France. ww2dbase [Violette Szabo | Harrington, England | CPC]
- Cleveland-class cruiser USS Pasadena was commissioned at the Bethlehem Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, United States with Captain Richard B. Tuggle in command. ww2dbase [Pasadena | Bethlehem Fore River Shipyard | Quincy, Massachusetts | DS]
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