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• Commander Hinton A. Owens relieved Commander Donald C. Varian as the commanding officer of USS Luce. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Scorpion observed a Japanese convoy in the Mariana Islands but was unable to attack. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Seahorse sank Japanese cargo ship Daishu Maru south of Japan, hitting her with two of four torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Air Vice Marshal M. Henderson became the commanding officer of the No. 12 Group RAF. ww2dbase [CPC]
• The German occupation of the Dodecanese Islands was completed. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Chiang Kaishek met at Cairo, Egypt. In the evening, Anglo-American leaders including Churchill, Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins, Louis Mountbatten, Joseph Stilwell, and Claire Chennault dined together. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• 418th Night Fighter Squadron (flying P-61 aircraft) of USAAF V Fighter Command was transferred from Milne Bay to Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Naka arrived at Ponape, Caroline Islands and embarked about 700 troops intended for Tarawa, Gilbert Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]
• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• Berlin, Germany was heavily bombed by 764 RAF aircraft (469 Lancaster, 234 Halifax, 50 Stirling, and 11 Mosquito), dropping over 2,300 tons of explosives; 26 bombers were lost. 175,000 Germans were made homeless and the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church was destroyed. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• The Kroll Opera House in Berlin, Germany was damaged by British bombers. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) concentrated on installations and planes at Mili Atoll, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | DS]

• A US aircraft conducted a reconnaissance flight over Taichu Airfield ("Toyohara") in central Taiwan. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Allied convoy JW-54B departed Liverpool, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Gar completed overhaul at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

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