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- German leader Fritz Sauckel ordered improvements in the living conditions for Eastern European workers in Germany who performed their functions well. ww2dbase [Fritz Sauckel | CPC]
- USS Gar arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her eighth war patrol. ww2dbase [Gar | CPC]
- US Navy PBM Mariner aircraft attacked a German submarine in the Caribbean Sea, possibly U-759. ww2dbase [Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico Campaigns | CPC]
- Charles J. Badger was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Charles J. Badger | CPC]
- One of Bogue’s escorts, destroyer USS George E. Badger, made a sound contact on a submarine and attacked. Debris and an oil slick were reported and U-613 was lost with all 48 hands. Later that same day, aircraft from escort carrier USS Bogue interrupted a rendezvous between German submarines U-527 and U-648 in the eastern Atlantic. U-527 was sunk but U-648 escaped. ww2dbase [Conclusion of the Battle of the Atlantic | Bogue | DS]
- Destroyer Yukikaze led a troop transport run to Kolombangara, New Georgia, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Yukikaze | Kolombangara, New Georgia | CPC]
- Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Parachute building turned over to station. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]
- Italian Air Force established plans to re-establish the 1st Air Force Assault Regiment "Amedeo d'Aosta" for possible use as guerrilla fighters in Sicily, Italy, but the plans would not come to fruition. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Soviet forces launched the Belgorod-Bogodukhov Offensive Operation toward Belgorod, Russia. ww2dbase [Battle of Belgorod | Belgorod | CPC]
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