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• Yamato arrived at Batjan, Halmahera after Operation KON was postponed. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]
• USS Iowa escroted carriers while the aircraft struck Japanese positions in the Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• US and British forces linked up near Carentan, France, forming a solid 50-mile battle line, with 326,000 men and 54,000 vehicles on the beachhead. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• German Reich Minister for the Eastern Occupied Territories Alfred Rosenberg ordered the start of Heuaktion, which called for the kidnapping of 40,000 Polish children between the age of 10 and 14; they were to be transported to Germany as slave laborers. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• With his company under heavy machine gun and tank fire in Burma, Rifleman Ganjo Lama crawled forward alone with a PIAT and destroyed two tanks. Despite a broken wrist and serious wounds to both hands, he knocked out a third tank by eliminating the crew. His actions earned him the Victoria Cross. ww2dbase [AC]
• Canadian Destroyer HMCS Haida under Commander H. C. DeWolf sank the German submarine U-971. ww2dbase [Main Article | AC]

• In China, about 100 P-40 and P-51 fighters of the US 14th Air Force attacked Japanese vessels on Dongting Lake, docks and warehouses at Yuanjiang in Hunan Province, and troop concentrations in Changsha in Hunan Province. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Carl G. E. Mannerheim appealed for German reinforcement to fight against the recent Soviet offensive. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | CPC]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Fifteen aircraft (Model F6F), 2 aircraft (Model TBF), 28 officers and 25 men of Night Fighting Squadron 78 (VF(N)-78) arrived on board. Thirteen aircraft (Model F6F), 5 aircraft (Model TBF), 29 officers and 16 men of Night Fighting Squadron 79 (VF(N)-79) arrived on board. ww2dbase [Main Article | DS]

• Ethnic Bhutia rifleman Ganju Lama of the British Indian Army, using a PIAT anti-tank launcher, knocked out two Japanese tanks under heavy machine gun fire at Ningthoukhong, Manipur, India. Despite a broken wrist and wounds to both hands, he engaged and killed the surviving Japanese tankers. He would be awarded the Victoria Cross for this action. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | CPC]

• USS Wasp's aircraft attacked Japanese positions on Saipan and Tinian in the Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Bluefish attacked a Japanese ship in the Makassar Strait; all 6 torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Alabama escorted US carriers as carrier aircraft attacked Japanese positions on Saipan, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Bergall was commissioned into service with Lieutenant Commander J. M. Hyde in command. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

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