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- Captain Shigenori Kami was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Navy 10th Air Fleet. ww2dbase [CPC]
- USS Flying Fish attacked a Japanese transport in the Sea of Japan; all 3 torpedoes fired missed. ww2dbase [Flying Fish | CPC]
- USS Gabilan departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her sixth and final war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Gabilan | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | CPC]
- I-14 departed Nanao, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. ww2dbase [I-14 | Nanao, Ishikawa | CPC]
- US PB4Y-2 aircraft from Okinawa, Japan began laying mines in waters off the southern tip of Korea. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Before dawn, submarine USS Tinosa torpedoed and sank the small merchantman Kaisei Maru and later that same day after dark she torpedoed and sank the larger cargo ship Taito Maru near the southern end of the Sea of Japan. These would be Tinosa’s last credited sinkings of the war. ww2dbase [Tinosa | Sea of Japan | DS]
- US B-24 bombers based in the Philippine Islands struck Shinchiku Airfield (now Hsinchu), Taiwan. ww2dbase [Shinchiku Airfield | Shinchiku | CPC]




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