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• Seisho Maru departed from Moji, Japan with convoy MI-27 for Miri, Borneo. ww2dbase [Seisho Maru | CPC]
• USS Bugara was commissioned into service with Commander A. F. Schade in command. ww2dbase [Bugara | CPC]
• USS Hawkbill departed Fremantle, Australia for her second war patrol. ww2dbase [Hawkbill | CPC]
• Light carrier Ryuho disembarked Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa and was relieved of duty as the admiral's flagship. As the Mobile Fleet was disbanded, she was transferred to Carrier Division 1 of the Combined Fleet. ww2dbase [Ryuho | CPC]

• Patrol Boat No. 102 departed Haikou, Hainan, China at 1743 hours. ww2dbase [Stewart | Haikou, Hainan | CPC]

• Destroyer USS Shaw departed New Guinea bound for Leyte Gulf as an escort for a convoy of 50 auxiliary and supply ships. ww2dbase [Philippines Campaign, Phase 1, the Leyte Campaign | Shaw | Biak, New Guinea | DS]

• Joseph Stalin ordered the deportation of over 115,000 Meskhetian Turks from southern Georgia to Central Asia. Somewhere between 30,000 to 50,000 deportees would die of starvation during transit. No reason was given for the deportation; historians speculated that it was part of Stalin's preparations against a possible war with Turkey some time in the future. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Joseph Stalin ordered the deportation of over 115,000 Meskhetians from their homeland in southern Georgia. ww2dbase [Deportation of Caucasian, Altaic, and Turkish Peoples | CPC]

• Albert Leo Schlageter, which had struck a mine on the previous day near Rügen, Germany and kept afloat by a stern tow by sister ship Horst Wessel, was met by large ships which would tow her to Swinemünde, Germany for repairs. ww2dbase [Horst Wessel | Rügen, Pommern | CPC]
• Ernst Kaltenbrunner was awarded the Knights Cross of the War Merit Cross with Swords. ww2dbase [Ernst Kaltenbrunner | CPC]

• Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Steamer Bay arrived at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ww2dbase [Steamer Bay | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]

• Oliver Leese set up his headquarters at Barrackpore, India. ww2dbase [Oliver Leese | Barrackpore, Bengal | CPC]

• Unryu was assigned to Carrier Division 1. ww2dbase [Unryu | CPC]
• Japanese Navy pilot Ensign Katsuo Takahashi was dispatched to Aichi's factory to take delivery of a completed Seiran aircraft for flight testing. ww2dbase [M6A Seiran | CPC]
• Landing ship No. 145 was launched. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]

• USS Kete reached her patrol area in the East China Sea. ww2dbase [Kete | East China Sea | CPC]
• USS Sterlet attacked a Japanese patrol vessel in the Pacific Ocean with her deck gun. ww2dbase [Sterlet | CPC]
• While conducting a sweep northward from the Bonin Islands, Wolfpack "Burt's Brooms" made up of submarines USS Silversides, USS Saury, USS Tambor, USS Trigger, USS Sterlet, USS Ronquil, and USS Burrfish open a four-day running gunfight with numerous Japanese patrol boats sinking two and damaging four, including two damaged so badly they see no further service during the war. ww2dbase [Saury | Tambor | Silversides | Trigger | Burrfish | Sterlet | Ronquil | DS]
• Submarine USS Saury fired four Mark XVIII electric torpedoes set at zero depth at Japanese patrol boat Kojo Maru 260 miles northwest of Chichi Jima. The torpedoes ran straight but appeared to explode beyond the target, apparently having passed underneath. Kojo Maru shot back at Saury and the submarine went deep. Kojo Maru was, in fact, damaged in the attack and sank the next day. ww2dbase [Saury | DS]

• At the White House in Washington DC, United States, President Franklin met with industrialist Henry J. Kaiser. ww2dbase [Henry Kaiser | Franklin Roosevelt | RAF Woodhall Spa | Washington, DC | DS]
• Tambor-class submarine USS Tautog departed San Francisco and proceeded to San Diego. ww2dbase [Tautog | San Francisco, California | DS]

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