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• USS Becuna crossed the International Date Line, sailing westward. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Hitler ordered his troops to withdraw from Greece. ww2dbase [TH]
• French troops captured Tarascon and Avignon, France. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]

• Whilst engaged escorting RAF Marauder bombers on a mission Flight Officer Ted Topham (91 Squadron), flying his Spitfire LFIX fighter, sighted a V-1 flying bomb heading across the English Channel which he chased and brought down into the sea. This was his 10th kill and would be the squadron's 186th and final V-1 flying bomb brought down. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | HM]

• The Bulgarian Fatherland Front began an armed rebellion against the Bulgarian government; it declared Bulgaria to be neutral in the Axis war against the Soviet Union. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH, CPC]

• A German air raid on Paris, France destroyed several residential neighborhoods. To the east, Allied troops crossed the Seine River. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• Dwight Eisenhower traveled to Omar Bradley's headquarters in France and invited him to visit the recently captured Paris, France with him on the following day. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Light carrier Ryuho arrived at Hashirajima, Japan and was transferred from Carrier Division 1 to Carrier Division 4 within the 3rd Fleet. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• German forces led by Lieutenant General Reiner Stahel attacked Bucharest, Romania. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Kamoi departed Singapore for a trial run, returning later on the same day. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• The US 17th Airborne Division arrived in Britain where it was placed under XVIII Airborne Corps. The Division however would not be sent to France until late in Dec 1944. ww2dbase [AC]

• USS Sterlet arrived at Midway, ending her first war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

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