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• Johnston was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Main Article | 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 [Main Article | CPC]
• After suffering severe injuries in a car crash, Feldmarschall von Kluge was invalided home. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]

• 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 [Main Article | CPC]

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

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

• Nachi arrived at Akkeshi Bay, Hokkaido, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

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

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

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