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• USS Franklin provided support for campaign at Leyte, Philippine Islands through 30 Oct 1944. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Cero damaged two small Japanese boats with gunfire west of the Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Rock fired nine torpedoes to scuttle the damaged submarine USS Darter on Bombay Shoal in the Spratly Islands; three hits were recorded. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Snook fired 3 torpedoes at a Japanese tanker; all torpedoes missed the target, but another Japanese ship was hit by one of them, causing damage. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Allied troops captured Den Bosch, Tilburg, and Bergen op Zoom in the Netherlands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Rear Admiral Tomozo Kikuchi was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Navy 2nd Air Fleet. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Roza Shanina was awarded the Medal for Courage. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Louis Mountbatten's Chief of Staff, Major General Albert Wedemeyer, was ordered by General George Marshall to proceed to China to take over command of US forces in China and to replace Joseph Stilwell as Chiang Kai-Shek's Chief of Staff. On arrival he was dismayed to discover that Stilwell had intentionally departed without seeing him and without leaving any briefing papers for his guidance. ww2dbase [Main Article | AC]

• Unmanned TDR drones attacked Rabaul, New Britain with bombs, damaging some buildings. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | CPC]

• Wang Guangfu, flying a P-40N fighter, participated in a surprise second raid of the second day on Jingmen Airfield in Hubei Province, China which had already been struck hours earlier. He shot down a fleeing Ki-48 aircraft and three Ki-43 aircraft (one of which was shared with Lieutenant Heyward Paxton). ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Slovakian resistance fighters abandoned their headquarters in Banská Bystrica, Czechoslovakia. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Bergall sank a Japanese transport in the South China Sea, hitting her with 4 of 6 torpedoes. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Nachi departed Coron, Palawan, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• B-24 bombers of No. 159 Squadron RAF from Kharagpur in eastern India mined the Penang Strait. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Light carrier Ryuho arrived at Kirun (now Keelung), Taiwan and disembarked aviation materials. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• USS Shamrock Bay arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, United States, completing her second ferrying mission across the Atlantic Ocean. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

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