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• Infantry of British 11th Brigade and tanks of US 1st Armored Division attacked Djedeida, Tunisia unsuccessfully, losing 19 tanks in the process. ww2dbase [Advance into Tunisia | CPC]
• USS Gar began her fifth war patrol. ww2dbase [Gar | CPC]
• Frederick Aikman attacked two German Do 217 aircraft in North Africa, downing one and damaging the other. ww2dbase [Frederick Aikman | CPC]

• Leonardo da Vinci made rendezvous with fellow Italian submarine Enrico Tazzoli in the Atlantic Ocean at 1205 hours. Leonardo da Vinci transferred 25 tons of fuel to Enrico Tazzoli between 1235 and 1950 hours. ww2dbase [Leonardo da Vinci | CPC]

• Repair ship Akashi completed the repair work for destroyer Ariake at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Akashi | Truk | CPC]
• Captain Takeji Miyazaki was made the commanding officer of Katori while at Truk, Caroline Islands, relieving Nobuki Nakaoka. ww2dbase [Katori | Truk | CPC]

• Nachi arrived at Kakumabetsu, Paramushiro (Paramushir), Kurile Islands in the morning and departed at 1200 hours. ww2dbase [Nachi | Paramushiro, Hokkaido | CPC]

• About 1,000 Jews from Ciechanów ghettos in Poland arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp; after the selection 325 men and 169 women were registered in the camp, and the remaining about 506 people were gassed. ww2dbase [Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Oswiecim | CPC]

• Battleship USS Indiana, cruiser USS Columbia, and destroyers USS Saufley, and USS DeHaven arrived at Tongatabu Harbor, Kingdom of Tonga. ww2dbase [Saufley | Alfredo Oriani | Columbia | Tongatabu | DS]

• Air Marshal Trafford L. Leigh-Mallory took over RAF Fighter Command from Sholto Douglas. ww2dbase [Trafford Leigh-Mallory | AC]

• Joseph Rochefort arrived at the Federal Building in San Francisco, California, United States and reported to the headquarters of the Western Sea Frontier. He would soon be asked to establish and command a naval intelligence center that covered the entire Alaska-California coastline. ww2dbase [Joseph Rochefort | San Francisco, California | CPC]
• Roddie Edmonds married Marie Solomon at the Vestal Methodist church in Knoxville, Tennessee. ww2dbase [Roddie Edmonds | Knoxville, Tennessee | DS]

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