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• Roosevelt placed the US Coast Guard under the control of US Navy for the duration of national emergency. ww2dbase [Franklin Roosevelt | CPC]
• American PBY Catalina aircraft provided air cover for Atlantic convoy ON 30. ww2dbase [PBY Catalina | CPC]
• Three US destroyers, screening Atlantic convoy HX 157, carried out depth charge attacks on sound contacts off St. John's, Newfoundland. ww2dbase [CPC]
• General der Gebirgstruppe Rudolf Konrad was named the commanding officer of the German 7th Mountain Division. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Drum was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Drum | CPC]
• After sundown, the Red Army evacuated the first group, 4,230 men, of the 28,000 men from the Hanko Peninsula, Finland to Leningrad, Russia via naval vessels. On the return trip to Hanko, Soviet minelayer Marti and minesweeper T-210 were damged by mines, and submarine Kalev was lost, probably to a mine as well. ww2dbase [CPC]
• German submarine U-68 sank British ship Bradford City 300 miles off German South-West Africa at 0654 hours; all 45 aboard survived in 2 lifeboats. U-68 accidentally collided with the sinking ship but did not suffer serious damage. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Zhao Chengshou began to distance himself from the Japanese and the Chinese collaborators. ww2dbase [Zhao Chengshou | CPC]
• Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein was made the commanding officer of the 9th Squadron in the German Nachtjagdgeschwader 2 wing. ww2dbase [Heinrich | CPC]
• On this date, Japan time, the Combined Fleet Order No. 1 was issued for additional radio communications to be generated to make US cryptanalytic efforts more difficult. Meanwhile, on the other side of the international date line, Joseph Rochefort's cryptanalytic team of the US Navy in Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii reported that all Japanese Navy call signs had changed. ww2dbase [Attack on Pearl Harbor | CPC | Detailed Timetable]
• Minoru Ota was assigned to the China Area Fleet as a staff officer. ww2dbase [Minoru Ota | CPC]

• US Navy formed the Pacific Escort Force at Pearl Harbor to protect transports and certain merchant vessels carrying troops and valuable military cargoes between Hawaii and the Far East. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | CPC]

• Japanese Navy Captain Gihachi Takayanagi (former commanding officer of battleship Ise) relieved Rear Admiral Shutoku Miyazato as the Chief Equipping Officer of Battleship No. 1, as Miyazato was being transferred to become the Chief of Personnel for Kure Naval District. ww2dbase [Yamato | CPC]

• Troops of the German 11.Armee captured Simferopol, Russia. To the southwest in Sevastopol, the Soviet 30th Coastal Battery bombarded the German 132nd Infantry Division at 1230 hours near the village of Bazarchik, slowing its preparations for an assault. ww2dbase [Battle of Sevastopol | TH]

• HMS Eagle arrived at Liverpool, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Eagle | CPC]
• A newly issued Typhoon fighter of British No. 56 Squadron plunged into the ground near East Harling, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, killing Pilot Officer J. F. Deck. Subsequent investigations revealed that he had suffered from carbon monoxide poisoning leading to the entire Typhoon fleet being grounded for modifications to cockpit sealing and the fitting of improved extended exhausts, although the problem was never satisfactorily resolved. ww2dbase [Typhoon | AC]

• US Marine Corps established the 2nd Joint Training Force at Camp Elliot, California, United States under Major General Clayton B. Vogel. It was composed of the US Marine Corps 2nd Marine Division and the US Army 3rd Infantry Division. ww2dbase [CPC]

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