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• USS Rock fired nine torpedoes to scuttle the damaged submarine USS Darter on Bombay Shoal in the Spratly Islands; three hits were recorded. ww2dbase [Rock | 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 [Albert Wedemeyer | AC]
• Roza Shanina was awarded the Medal for Courage. ww2dbase [Roza Shanina | CPC]
• USS Cero damaged two small Japanese boats with gunfire west of the Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Cero | CPC]
• Rear Admiral Tomozo Kikuchi was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Navy 2nd Air Fleet. ww2dbase [CPC]
• USS Franklin provided support for campaign at Leyte, Philippine Islands through 30 Oct 1944. ww2dbase [Franklin | CPC]
• Allied troops captured Den Bosch, Tilburg, and Bergen op Zoom in the Netherlands. ww2dbase [Battle of the Scheldt Estuary | 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 [Snook | CPC]

• Unmanned TDR drones attacked Rabaul, New Britain with bombs, damaging some buildings. ww2dbase [TDR | New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | Rabaul, New Britain | 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 [Wang Guangfu | Jingmen, Hubei | CPC]
• Kamoi arrived at Sijiao Island off Shanghai, China at 1200 hours and refueled the escort vessels of the convoy. ww2dbase [Kamoi | Sijiao Island, Zhejiang | CPC]

• Slovakian resistance fighters abandoned their headquarters in Banská Bystrica, Czechoslovakia. ww2dbase [Slovak National Uprising | Banská Bystrica | CPC]

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

• Destroyer USS Shaw entered Leyte Gulf, Philippines. ww2dbase [Shaw | Leyte Gulf, Leyte | DS]
• Nachi departed Coron, Palawan, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Nachi | Coron, Palawan | CPC]
• Damaged cruiser Kumano departed Coron Bay for Manila. ww2dbase [Philippines Campaign, Phase 1, the Leyte Campaign | Kumano | Coron | DS]
• Destroyer USS Shaw entered Leyte Gulf, Philippines. ww2dbase [Philippines Campaign, Phase 1, the Leyte Campaign | Leyte Gulf, Leyte | DS]

• B-24 bombers of No. 159 Squadron RAF from Kharagpur in eastern India mined the Penang Strait. ww2dbase [Mako Guard District | Fleets of Major World Powers, Jan 1939 | Penang Strait, Penang | CPC]

• Light carrier Ryuho arrived at Kirun (now Keelung), Taiwan and disembarked aviation materials. ww2dbase [Ryuho | Kirun, Taihoku | CPC]

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

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