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- British Army Sergeant Thomas Derrick won the Victoria Cross in New Guinea after volunteering to go out alone to tackle Japanese gun positions. He destroyed 10 with grenades, enabling the Australian advance to continue. Derrick did not live to receive the medal, dying from wounds sustained in a later action in Borneo in May 1945. ww2dbase [AC]
- Albert W. Grant was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Albert W. Grant | CPC]
- USS Puffer departed Fremantle, Australia for her second war patrol in the Sulu Sea area off the Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Puffer | CPC]
- US Army aviation engineering units arrived in India to expand airfields in the Calcutta area. ww2dbase [CPC]
- The still under construction Torokina Airfield at Bougainville, Solomon Islands saw its first unscheduled landing, an emergency landing by a US Navy SBD aircraft. ww2dbase [Cape Torokina, Bougainville | CPC]
- 6 RAF Mosquito aircraft attacked Berlin, Germany; one aircraft was lost. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Berlin | CPC]
- Before dawn, while on display at a museum in Berlin, Germany, the Do X aircraft was destroyed by British bombing. ww2dbase [Do X | Berlin | CPC]
- USS Luce departed Hawaiian Islands waters. ww2dbase [Luce | CPC]
- Japanese submarine I-75 fired three torpedoes at escort carrier USS Liscome Bay off Makin Atoll. One struck near the stern setting off the ship's bomb magazine and blowing off the stern section. The ship sank within 23 minutes killing 644 officers and men, including Pearl Harbor hero Doris Miller. ww2dbase [Gilbert Islands Campaign | Doris Miller | CPC]
- Allied convoy JW-54A arrived at the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Murmansk | CPC]
- USS Wasp was commissioned into service with Captain Clifton A. F. Sprague in command. ww2dbase [Wasp (Essex-class) | CPC]




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