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• USS Puffer attacked a Japanese freighter in the Dutch East Indies; all 6 torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Puffer | CPC]
• Aleksandr Vasilevsky was made a Hero of the Soviet Union and was awarded his second Order of Lenin. ww2dbase [Aleksandr Vasilevsky | CPC]
• Ivan Bagramyan was awarded the Order of Lenin for the first time. ww2dbase [Ivan Bagramyan | CPC]
• USS Gunnel started her sixth war patrol. ww2dbase [Gunnel | CPC]

• Escort carrier USS Bogue and her task group arrived at Port Royal Bay, Bermuda. ww2dbase [Bogue | Port Royal Bay | DS]

• B-29 Superfortress bombers of the 20th USAAF flying from advanced airfields near Chengdu in China attacked the Showa steel works at Anshan in Liaoning, northeastern China. During the raid B-29 bomber 42-5256 piloted by Captain Howard R. Jarrell was struck by a shell and badly damaged. Unable to make the 1,500 mile journey home, Captain Jarrell decided to try to reach Vladivostock in the USSR. Intercepted by Soviet Yak-9 fighters the crippled bomber was forced to land at the small strip at Tavrichanka where the aircraft and its crew were interned by the Soviet authorities. ww2dbase [Anshan, Liaoning | AC]
• Leng Peishu, flying a P-40N fighter, shot down a Ki-43-II aircraft while attacking Yueyang, Hunan Province, China. His fighter was hit by ground fire, shattering the canopy, and his forehead was cut by shattered glass; the engine was also damaged. He crash landed in Hanshou County on the western edge of Dongting Lake and was given first aid by a Belgian Catholic priest. ww2dbase [Leng Peishu | Hunan | CPC]

• A Me 163 jet fighter attempted to disrupt a B-17 raid on Mersburg, Germany but was instead pursued by Captain Arthur Jeffrey in a P-38 fighter. Jeffrey chased the Me 163 jet fighter to a very low altitude and confidently reported a victory, but post war records indicated that there was no Me 163 lost on this particular date. ww2dbase [Me 163 Komet | Mersburg, Halle-Merseburg | CPC]
• Destroyer Z44 was sunk by a British RAF raid on Bremen, Germany. ww2dbase [Z44 | Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG | Bremen, Weser-Ems | CPC]

• USS Becuna arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Becuna | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• USS Marblehead arrived in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. ww2dbase [Marblehead | Palmermo, Sicilia | CPC]

• The keel of landing ship No. 141 was laid down by Sasebo Naval Arsenal, Japan. ww2dbase [Sasebo Naval Arsenal | No. 101/103-class | Sasebo, Nagasaki | CPC]

• German Armeegruppe Nord was cut off as the Red Army reached the Baltic coast west of Riga, Latvia. ww2dbase [Operation Bagration | TH]

• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) arrived back in the Mariana Islands area. ww2dbase [Yorktown (Essex-class) | DS]

• Destroyer USS Hoel moored to the repair dock at Ilse Nou, Nouméa, New Caledonia for repairs. ww2dbase [Hoel | Nouméa | DS]

• Georgy Zhukov was made a Hero of the Soviet Union for the second time. ww2dbase [Georgy Zhukov | CPC]

• In south London, England, United Kingdom, two surface air raid shelters were partly destroyed when a V-1 flying bomb impacted at the junction of Hollyoak and Dante Roads in Elephant and Castle; twenty houses were rendered uninhabitable. There were no casualties with this bomb, however another exploded nearby killing five and damaging almost 200 houses. Further south a V-1 flying bomb crashed and blew up near the town of Sevenoaks in western Kent after being shot down by a fighter, as often happened in the countryside, after the explosion schoolboys took parts for souvenirs. ww2dbase [V-Weapons Campaign | Vergeltungswaffe 1 | London, England | HM]

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