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• US President Franklin Roosevelt informed Douglas MacArthur that MacArthur's plan to invade the Philippine Islands had been approved, which necessarily meant that Chester Nimitz's plan to land on Taiwan, thus bypassing the Philippine Islands, was rejected. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• The Vyborg-Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest Soviet offensive against Finland, ended in a strategic stalemate. ww2dbase [CPC]
• The US Forest Service and the US Wartime Advertising Council released posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time. ww2dbase [CPC]

• USS Pollack attacked a Japanese destroyer with four torpedoes west of the Caroline Islands; all torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Dwight Eisenhower moved his headquarters to France. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]

• USS Barbero departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of for her first war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]
• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of 125th Construction Battalion (125th SeaBees) departed. ww2dbase [Main Article | DS]

• A V-1 flying bomb exploded in the air above the town of Lamberhurst, Kent, England, United Kingdom after being shot at by a fighter, the bomb scattered 1-kilogram incendiary bombs. 91 squadron was officially taken off anti-V-1 operations and moved to RAF Hawkinge in Kent to re-equip with Spitfire LFIX fighters. The squadron had accounted for 184 of the bombs, and 2 more would be added whilst they trained in their new aircraft. The squadron's Spitfire XIV fighters were handed to 402 Squadron (RCAF) who commenced anti-V-1 operations three days later. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | HM]

• USS Tirante was launched at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, United States. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Franklin Roosevelt assigned Patrick Hurley to as an intermediary between Chiang Kaishek and Joseph Stilwell. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

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