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• USS Franklin launched strikes against Bonin Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS S-28 began anti-submarine warfare exercises with United States Coast Guard cutter Reliance off Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Cod departed Fremantle, Australia for her fourth war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Seahorse sank Japanese cargo ship Nitta Maru and passenger-cargo ship Gyoyu Maru off Taiwan, hitting her with four of five torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Soviet forces recaptured Minsk, Byelorussia, trapping over 100,000 Germans in the pocket. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• US VIII Corps advanced toward Coutances, France. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• John Basilone re-enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Harder arrived at Darwin, Australia, ending her fifth war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• At 0358 hours, having intercepted the intelligence that a Soviet offensive was to be launched on this day, 40 Finnish and 40 German aircraft attacked Soviet staging points in Finland, followed by an artillery bombardment. The Soviet offensive was delayed until 0600 hours, and it achieved little. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• After sundown, Japanese commandos raided a British airfield near Imphal, India and destroyed eight parked aircraft. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• French Expeditionary Corps captured Siena, Italy. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH, CPC]

• Light carrier Ryuho arrived at Kure, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]
• USS Wasp's aircraft attacked Japanese positions on Iwo Jima and Chichi Jima of the Bonin Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• 64 US Army servicemen and 10 civilians were killed in their living quarters when, at 0747 hours, a V-1 bomb hit the building at Turk's Row in Chelsea, London, England, United Kingdom. A further 54 soldiers were seriously injured. Another V-1 bomb exploded in Sandling Park in East Kent, the bomb had been brought down by a fighter and exploded in the lines of the Canadian 6 Tank Regiment, six soldiers were wounded. ww2dbase [Main Article | HM]
• Remy van Lierde, a Belgian pilot with No. 3 Squadron RAF, shot down a V-1 flying bomb over Beachy Head, East Sussex, England on the south coast of Britain. He would go on to shoot down 44 in total. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | HM]

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