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• The minesweeper USS Advocate was transferred to the Soviet Union under the Lend-Lease act. ww2dbase [AC]
• Naka arrived at Nauru and disembarked 412 troops of No. 2 Yokosuka Special Naval Landing Force; she departed later in the day. ww2dbase [Naka | CPC]
• Hubert Lanz was given command of XXXXIX Gebirgskorps. ww2dbase [Hubert Lanz | CPC]

• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against Hamburg, Germany but diverted to targets of opportunity due to thick clouds over the target area. ww2dbase [RAF Thurleigh | Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Hamburg | DS]

• USS Mingo departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Mingo | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
• USS Pollack arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her seventh war patrol. ww2dbase [Pollack | Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• Comandante Cappellini (Aquilla III) sighted a freighter in the Indian Ocean during the day; she submerged to avoid detection. ww2dbase [Comandante Cappellini | CPC]

• The first Italian "M" armored division was formed near Rome, Italy as Mussolini's bodyguard unit. ww2dbase [Rome | CPC]
• As part of the preparation for the invasion of Sicily, Italy (Operation Husky) some 130 American B-17 bombers from the Northwest African Tactical Air Force dropped over 300 tons of bombs on Messina, Italy. ww2dbase [Invasion of Sicily and Italy's Surrender | Messina, Sicilia | AC]

• USS S-35 arrived in the Kurile Islands. ww2dbase [S-35 | Hokkaido | CPC]
• USS Harder sank a Japanese transport and damaged another off Japan, hitting each with 1 torpedo, expending 7 torpedoes in this attack. ww2dbase [Harder | CPC]

• Rear Admiral Katsuya Sato was named the chief of staff of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea. ww2dbase [Chinkai Guard District | Chinkai, Gyeongsangnam | CPC]

• The German Foreign Ministry representative in the Netherlands reported that 102,000 of the 140,000 Dutch Jews had been deported. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]

• Jews in the ghetto of Czestochowa, Poland revolted; German authorities destroyed the ghetto in response. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Czestochowa | CPC]
• Crematorium III began operation at Auschwitz Concentration Camp. The camp now had the capacity of cremating 4,756 bodies per day. ww2dbase [Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Oswiecim | CPC]

• The Karenko Prisoners of War Camp in Karenko (now Hualien) in eastern Taiwan was closed. ww2dbase [Karenko | CPC]

• On the previous night, white military policemen Corporal Roy Windsor and Private First Class Ralph Ridgeway of US 234th Military Police Company killed black soldier by gunfire near the Ye Olde Hob Inn, a local public house in the village of Bamber Bridge, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom for being out of uniform. Other black soldiers of 1511th Quartermaster Truck Regiment of US 8th Air Force panicked and began to arm themselves. A firefight broke out, wounding 1 white officer, 1 white military policemen, and 3 black soldiers. The firefight ended around 0400 hours, and the situation calmed by the afternoon. A later court martial convicted 32 black soldiers of mutiny, and none of the white military policemen were charged, including Corporal Roy Windsor and Private First Class Ralph Ridgeway who killed Private William Crossland with a shot in the back. ww2dbase [Bamber Bridge, England | CPC]

• The keel for the future submarine Trepang was laid down at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in California, United States. ww2dbase [Trepang | Mare Island Navy Yard | Vallejo, California | CPC]

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