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• Wilhelm Keitel was promoted to the rank of General der Artillerie. ww2dbase [Wilhelm Keitel | CPC]

• Hideki Tojo led Japanese troops at Battle of Chahar in China. ww2dbase [Battle of Chahar | Chahar | CPC]

• Karl-Otto Koch was made the commandant of Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Weimar, Germany. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Buchenwald Concentration Camp | Karl-Otto Koch | Weimar | CPC]
• Greif was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Greif | CPC]

• Settsu was assigned to the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet. ww2dbase [Settsu | CPC]
• Haruki Isayama attached to the General Affairs Section of the Japanese Army. ww2dbase [Haruki Isayama | CPC]

• Destroyer Squadron 29 of US Asiatic Fleet departed Vladivostok, Russia for Yantai, Shandong Province, China while USS Augusta departed the same port for Qingdao, Shandong Province, China. ww2dbase [Augusta | Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai | CPC]

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