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• The British House of Commons voted for the third £1,000,000,000 war credit of year. ww2dbase [CPC]
• German government reports published this month noted that 2,139,553 foreign workers were employed, about half of which, 1,007,561, were Polish. ww2dbase [CPC]
• The protocol produced at the end of the US-UK-USSR aid conference determined immediate and long-term deliveries to the Soviet Union, with the agreement subject to annual review. ww2dbase [TH]
• The Italian "M" battalions were established. ww2dbase [CPC]
• King George VI of the United Kingdom granted the name Royal New Zealand Navy to the New Zealand ships fighting within the British Royal Navy. ww2dbase [George VI | CPC]
• The British RAF reported internally on Hugh Dowding's (forced) retirement. When Prime Minister Winston Churchill learned of it, he was extremely displeased, and demanded the RAF to find a new position for Dowding. Dowding had originally conceded to political pressure and was preparing his retirement, but ultimately yielded to Churchill's wish and accepted whatever new position the RAF would give him. ww2dbase [Hugh Dowding | CPC]
• Finnish troops reached Petrozavodsk, the capital of Soviet Republic of Karelia, further cutting off Leningrad in northern Russia. ww2dbase [Siege of Leningrad | CPC]
• HMS Edinburgh departed Malta. ww2dbase [Edinburgh | CPC]
• Wilhelm Keitel ordered that, in regards to the hostages the German military had been holding and executing in retaliation of partisan attacks, choice of victims would be important, as well-known victims would have greater effect in keeping the occupied peoples in line. ww2dbase [Wilhelm Keitel | CPC]
• ShCh-320 fired a torpedo at a merchant ship north of Danzig Bay; the torpedo missed. ww2dbase [ShCh-320 | CPC]
• Francis Tuker was made the commanding officer of Indian 34th Infantry Division. ww2dbase [Francis Tuker | CPC]

• Leonardo da Vinci arrived at Bordeaux, France at 1640 hours, ending a war patrol. ww2dbase [Leonardo da Vinci | Bordeaux, Aquitaine | CPC]
• Aldo Lenzi was made the commanding officer of Comandante Cappellini while at Bordeaux, France, relieving Salvatore Todaro. ww2dbase [Comandante Cappellini | Bordeaux, Aquitaine | CPC]

• Operations began at Majdanek Concentration Camp near Lublin, Poland. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Majdanek Concentration Camp | Lublin | CPC]

• The Soviet NKVD ordered the release of 51,257 Polish prisoners of war for the formation of a Polish unit under General Wladislaw Anders to fight against Germany. ww2dbase [CPC]

• No. 3 WAAF Depot was opened at Morecombe, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom; it was a training centre. ww2dbase [WAAF: Women in the WW2 Royal Air Force | Morecombe, England | AC]

• Maritime Commission Type C-3-class Hull #170 was laid down at the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation’s Tacoma shipyard with th prospective nam of Steel Advocate. The hull would later be repurposed as the Bogue, lead ship in a class of auxiliary aircraft carriers for the United States Navy. ww2dbase [Bogue | Tacoma, Washington | DS]

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