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• Wilhelm Frick was named Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. ww2dbase [Wilhelm Frick | CPC]
• Heinrich Himmler was appointed as Minister of the Interior of Germany. ww2dbase [Heinrich Himmler | TH]
• In Denmark, bomb incidents and strikes marked growing resistance. ww2dbase [CPC]
• USS Tunny detected a 6-ship Japanese convoy near the Toagel Mlungui Pass in the Palau Islands early in the morning and stalked the convoy for the remainder of the day. ww2dbase [Tunny | CPC]
• The 1st (French) Motorised Infantry Division was created from the 1st Free French Division and was sent to Italy as a part of the French Expeditionary Force in Apr 1944. ww2dbase [AC]
• The Georgian Legion of the German Army was ordered to move from the Eastern Front to the Netherlands. ww2dbase [CPC]
• USS Bailey departed San Francisco bound for San Diego, California. ww2dbase [Bailey | DS]

• U-23 sank Soviet patrol ship Shkval with gunfire and hand-thrown grenades and explosives about 35 kilometers (about 22 miles) south of Sukhumi, Georgia at 2315 hours. Three were killed. Seven survivors in a lifeboat reached shore at 1100 hours on the next day. ww2dbase [U-23 | CPC]

• US Marine Corps Colonel William Brice moved the headquarters of his Fighter Command to the Munda Point airfield on New Georgia in the Solomon Islands. On this date, the responsibility of Commander, Aircraft, New Georgia was also merged under his command. ww2dbase [Solomon Islands Campaign | CPC]

• 1,260 Polish Jewish children from the liquidated Bialystok ghetto in Poland arrived at Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in occupied Czechoslovakia. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Theresienstadt Concentration Camp | Terezín, Cechy | CPC]

• Francis Gabreski scored his first aerial victory over Dreux, France, shooting down a German Fw 190 aircraft. ww2dbase [Francis Gabreski | Dreux, Centre-Val de Loire | JR]
• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against the aircraft works at Villacoublay, France. ww2dbase [RAF Thurleigh | Bombing of Cities in France and Low Countries | Villacoublay | DS]

• Ilse Koch was arrested by the SS for corruption. ww2dbase [Ilse Koch | CPC]

• USS Harder departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her second war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Harder | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
• Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander US Pacific Fleet, personally inspected the torpedo damage to USS Honolulu's bow in DryDock #1 at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Chester Nimitz | Honolulu | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]

• USS Whale damaged an oiler and a freighter in a Japanese convoy 37 kilometers west of Kusagaki Islands, Japan in the East China Sea, hitting them with 2 of 4 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Whale | East China Sea | CPC]

• Comandante Cappellini (Aquilla III) arrived at Singapore. ww2dbase [Comandante Cappellini | Singapore | CPC]

• The keel of submarine Spot was laid down at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States. ww2dbase [Mare Island Navy Yard | Spot | Vallejo, California | CPC]

24 Aug 1943 Interactive Map