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• The Soviet minesweeper T.118 (formerly the USS Armada) was sunk by the German submarine U-365 in the Kara Sea. ww2dbase [AC]
• USS Pompon attacked a Japanese convoy off Sakhalin island during the night, damaging a tanker and sinking transport Mikage Maru No. 20; she expended 14 torpedoes and observed 4 hits. During the attack, one of her own torpedoes circled back and nearly struck her. ww2dbase [Pompon | CPC]
• USS Puffer attacked an escorted Japanese convoy of ten freighters and tankers off the Philippine Islands, sinking tanker Teikon Maru and a freighter, and damaging another tanker; she expended 6 torpedoes and observed 5 hits. ww2dbase [Puffer | CPC]
• German submarine U-365 sank Russian freighter Marina Raskova and Soviet trawler T-114 of Soviet convoy BD-5 in western Kara Sea off northern Russia; a total of 362 were killed and 256 survived. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | CPC]

• The Operation Frantic shuttle-bombing mission UK-USSR-Italy-UK is completed. 72 B-17s took off from bases in Italy and bombed the Toulouse-Francazal Airfield, France before flying on to England. 62 P-51s (part of the shuttle-mission force) and 43 from the UK provide escort; no aircraft are lost. ww2dbase [B-17 Flying Fortress | P-51 Mustang | Operation Frantic | Toulouse | DS]
• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against the airfield at Chamant, France. ww2dbase [Bombing of Cities in France and Low Countries | RAF Thurleigh | Chamant | DS]

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

• Irako collided with Teia Maru off Ryukyu Islands, Japan, suffering superficial damage. ww2dbase [Irako | CPC]
• The keel of landing ship No. 115 was laid down by Osaka Zosen. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]

• Destroyer USS Saufley departed Saipan, Mariana Islands screening a convoy bound for Eniwetok, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Saufley | Saipan | DS]

• USS Honolulu arrived at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Honolulu | Eniwetok | DS]

• The first transport of civilians arrested in Warsaw, Poland after the start of Warsaw Uprising reached Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp via Pruszków transit camp. 1,984 males and over 3,800 females were in this transport. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Oswiecim | CPC]
• German Luftwaffe wing KG 55 flew its final eastern front bombing mission as its He 111 bombers attacked bridges on the Vistula River near Warsaw, Poland. The wing would later be converted into a fighter unit under the new designation of KG(J) 55. ww2dbase [Warsaw | CPC]
• After sundown, 5 aircraft of No. 1586 (Polish Special Duties) Flight RAF and 6 aircraft of No. 148 (Special Duties) Squadron dropped supplies for the resistance fighters in Warsaw, Poland. There were Allied no losses. ww2dbase [Warsaw Uprising | Warsaw | CPC]

• Lieutenant Joseph Kennedy, Jr., the older brother of future US President John F. Kennedy, was killed in a flying accident involving an Operation Aphrodite aircraft over East Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. His flight engineer, Lieutenant Wilford John Willy, was also killed. ww2dbase [England | AC, HM]
• No. 402 Squadron RCAF, flying Spitfire XIV fighters, began anti-V-1 flying bomb operations in Britain. The squadron was based at RAF Hawkinge in Kent, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Vergeltungswaffe 1 | V-Weapons Campaign | Hawkinge, England | HM]
• Winston Churchill sent another message to Joseph Stalin, relaying Polish request for machine guns and ammunition for the resistance fighters in Warsaw, Poland. ww2dbase [Winston Churchill | Joseph Stalin | Warsaw Uprising | London, England | CPC]

• Franklin Roosevelt aboard USS Cummings addressed a crowd of 8,000 to 10,000 people surrounding Drydock 2 at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Washington. He spoke for over 35 minutes and his remarks were rebroadcast over nationwide radio. ww2dbase [Franklin Roosevelt | Cummings | Puget Sound Navy Yard | Bremerton, Washington | DS]

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