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• USS Finback, with the new commanding officer Lieutenant Commander Robert Russell Williams, Jr., departed Majuro, Marshall Islands for her tenth war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Croaker sank a Japanese patrol vessel with 1 of 3 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Allied aircraft sank French cruiser Dupleix. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• George Patton was promoted to the permanent rank of major general, bypassing the permanent rank of brigadier general. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• French resistance fighters captured three German posts along the Swiss border. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• At Bafour, France, British Lieutenant Tasker Watkins captured two German machine gun posts, eliminated an anti-tank gun, led in a defense of a German counterattack, and while the company attempted to return to Allied lines silenced another machine gun position by himself. He would later win the Victoria Cross. Later in life he served as a Lord Justice of Appeal and deputy Lord Chief Justice of the United Kingdom. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Japanese troops entered northeastern Guangxi Province, China. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Marblehead bombarded Axis positions near Saint-Raphaël, France. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | CPC]
• The US coastal minesweeper YMSA-24 struck a mine and sank off Saint-Tropez, France. ww2dbase [AC]
• Jean de Lattre de Tassigny arrived in Provence, France. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Parche arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her second war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

• The Naval Air Technical Arsenal at Yokosuka, Japan formally began the development of the aircraft that would later be known as the Ohka. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• A V-1 flying bomb exploded in High Street of Walthamstow in east London, England, United Kingdom killing 17 and injuring 62. Nine more people were killed further south in Brockley. Deptford in south-east London received its 7th bomb which damaged houses that were already being repaired and killed 7. Officers and men of the squadrons based at RAF Dettling, north-east of Maidstone, Kent, southern England were not amused when a bomb was shot down and exploded not far from their control tower and sending three airmen to hospital. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | HM]

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