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• Naka received 166 troops and anti-tank guns from transport Kiyosumi Maru and then disembarked them at Kavieng, New Ireland at 1700 hours. ww2dbase [Naka | Kavieng, New Ireland | CPC]
• Chokai departed Rabaul, New Britain. ww2dbase [Chokai | Rabaul, New Britain | CPC]

• M18 was lightly damaged by Soviet ground attack aircraft in the Gulf of Finland. ww2dbase [M18 | Gulf of Finland | CPC]
• M30 was lightly damaged by Soviet ground attack aircraft in the Gulf of Finland. ww2dbase [M30 | Gulf of Finland | CPC]
• M459 was lightly damaged by Soviet ground attack aircraft in the Gulf of Finland. ww2dbase [M471 | Gulf of Finland | CPC]
• M460 was lightly damaged by Soviet ground attack aircraft in the Gulf of Finland. ww2dbase [M460 | Gulf of Finland | CPC]
• M16 was badly damaged by Soviet ground attack aircraft in the Gulf of Finland. ww2dbase [M16 | Gulf of Finland | CPC]

• William Halsey ordered US Task Force 38, currently refueling in the Indispensable Reefs anchorage south of Rennell Island of the Solomon Islands from the 21,000-ton tanker Kankakee, to attack Japanese Cruiser Division 4, which was approaching Rabaul, New Britain. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | CPC]
• Destroyer USS Saufley departed Tulagi as escort to a convoy of LSTs bound for Empress Augusta Bay, Bougainville, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Saufley | Solomon Islands | DS]

• Patrol Boat No. 102 departed Balikpapan, Dutch East Indies for a patrol. ww2dbase [Stewart | Balikpapan, Borneo | CPC]

• USS Corvina departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first and only war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Corvina | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• In Italy, US Fifth Army captured Isernia and joined with British Eighth Army moving up from Foggia. ww2dbase [Advance to the Gustav Line | Isernia, Molise | TH]
• Commander Junio Valerio Borghese was named the Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff of the Italian Navy, in charge of operations. ww2dbase [Junio Valerio Borghese | CPC]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]

• The ground echelon of USAAF 354th Fighter Group arrived in England, United Kingdom; their P-51B Mustang fighters were still in transit. ww2dbase [England | CPC]
• USS Ranger departed Rosyth, Scotland bound for Scapa Flow. ww2dbase [Ranger | Rosyth, Scotland | DS]

• Johannes Kunze, a prisoner at Camp Tonkawa in Tonkawa, Oklahoma, United States, was discovered by fellow prisoners to be a spy working for the American guards. Kunze was beaten to death. Prisoner Walter Beyer would later be found guilty for the murder and would be executed by hanging in Leavenworth, Kansas, United States. ww2dbase [Camp Tonkawa | Tonkawa, Oklahoma | CPC]

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