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• USS Flying Fish sank a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire in the Western Pacific. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Tunny refueled at Johnston Island, United States. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• German forces in Operation Citadel ran out of momentum, even though there had been some objectives reached. Hitler refused to call off the operation, which could have saved many of the units. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]

• 19th Bomb Squadron (flying B-25 and B-26 aircraft) of USAAF 22nd Bomb Group was transferred to Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Admiral William Halsey issued a directive for an attack in the Bougainville area in the Solomon Islands; Lieutenant General Alexander Vandegrift was to be the head of the invasion force. Elsewhere, the 1st Marine War Dog Platoon arrived in the theater in preparation of the Bougainville operations with the 2nd Marine Raider Regiment. At New Georgia, the US airfield at Segi Point was now fully operational. After sundown, US cruisers and destroyers bombarded Japanese positions at Munda, New Georgia. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Repair ship Akashi performed repair work for armed merchant cruiser Aikoku at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• A German officer was killed in Greece when a partisan fighter threw a grenade into the officer's vehicle. ww2dbase [CPC]

• USS Hoe arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her first war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

• HMS Howe bombarded Trapani and Favignana, Sicily, Italy. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Ancon operated off Scoglitti, Sicily, Italy as a commications ship. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | CPC]
• British 8th Army captured Syracuse, Sicily, Italy and its useful harbour. Also on Sicily, General Paul Conrath's Hermann Göring Panzer Division overran the American outposts at Ponte Dirillo and were only prevented from breaking through the Allied lines by an attack by James Gavin's paratroopers from the rear. Elsewhere, Conrath personally led a column which assaulted the weakly held Piano Lupo, to get within 2,000 yards of the beach before being stopped by the defenders. ww2dbase [Main Article | AC]
• Omar Bradley arrived at Sicily, Italy while recovering from a recent hemorrhoidectomy. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) transited the Panama Canal. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | DS]

• USS Wahoo began a period of trials and training off California, United States. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Submarine Flier was launched at Groton, Connecticut, United States. sponsored by the wife of A. S. Pierce. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

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