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• The Soviet Baltic Fleet completed its evacuation from Tallinn, Estonia to Kronstadt off Leningrad, Russia. 165 vessels arrived in Leningrad with 28,000 military personnel and civilians on aboard. ww2dbase [CPC]
• German bombers attacked Alexandria, Egypt, killing 2 British Royal Navy officers but otherwise doing little to no damage to ships and port facilities, which were the primary targets. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Maggiore Baracca departed Bordeaux, France and arrived at La Pallice, La Rochelle, France later on the same day. ww2dbase [Maggiore Baracca | Bordeaux, Aquitaine | CPC]

• Kasuga Maru completed her conversion into an escort carrier at Sasebo, Japan. She was renamed Taiyo. ww2dbase [Sasebo Naval Arsenal | Taiyo | Sasebo, Nagasaki | CPC]

• A mixed-gender anti-aircraft battery with 200 men and an equal number of women was established, with great public interest, in Richmond Park, London, England, United Kingdom. The women were the first to take a combat role in Britain. ww2dbase [London, England | AC]

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