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• After suffering severe injuries in a car crash, Feldmarschall von Kluge was invalided home. ww2dbase [Günther von Kluge | TH]
• Johnston was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Johnston | CPC]
• USS Flying Fish sank two Japanese transports east of the Philippine Islands in two separate attacks, hitting them with 3 of 10 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Flying Fish | CPC]

• From Rabaul in New Britain, Jinichi Kusaka reported to his superiors at the Combined Fleet headquarters at Truk, Caroline Islands that only 10 D3Y dive bombers, 70 A6M fighters, and 36 G3M bombers were left at Rabaul. He requested four divisions of fighters and three divisions of dive bombers to be sent to reinforce the base. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | Rabaul, New Britain | CPC]

• New Zealand 8th Brigade captured Mono Island and Stirling Island of Treasury Islands of the Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Solomon Islands Campaign | Treasury Islands | CPC]

• Bernard Montgomery restarted the British offensive on the eastern shore of Italy. ww2dbase [Advance to the Gustav Line | TH, CPC]
• Italian Navy formed the "NP" battalion under Commander Junio Valerio Borghese for saboteur work. ww2dbase [Junio Valerio Borghese | CPC]

• Nachi arrived at Akkeshi Bay, Hokkaido, Japan. ww2dbase [Nachi | Akkeshi Bay, Hokkaido | CPC]

• USS Grayback fired six torpedoes at a Japanese convoy in the East China Sea, sharing credit for one transport sinking. ww2dbase [Grayback | East China Sea | CPC]

• 4th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron of 13th Composite Wing of 72nd Observation Group of US Army Air Forces was assigned to Borinquen Field in Puerto Rico. ww2dbase [Borinquen Field | Aguadilla | CPC]

• Sterlet was launched at Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine, United States, sponsored by the wife of Charles A. Plumley. ww2dbase [Sterlet | Kittery, Maine | CPC]

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