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• USS Arizona was struck from the Naval Vessel Register. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Armidale was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Stuart was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• US Army Lieutenant General Eichelberger was ordered to Papau, New Guinea, to capture Buna. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• The US 1st Marine Aviation Engineer Battalion relieved the US 6th Naval Construction Battalion on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein was named the commanding officer of IV./Nachtjagdgeschwader 5. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Walter Stettner von Grabenhofen was named the commanding officer of 1st Mountain Division. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Kamoi departed Mili, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• Germany established the Camp for the custody of Polish youth in Lodz (Polen-Jugendverwahrlager Litzmannstadt), Poland. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Soviet Navy Commissar Nikolai Kuznetsov wrote to the Military Council of the Black Sea Fleet demanding a report on why so many servicemen were being arrested on false charges. ww2dbase [CPC]

• German 10th Panzer Division launched a counterattack in Tunisia, pushing back British 11th Brigade. Meanwhile, British 2nd Parachute Brigade crossed Miliane River south of Oudna airfield and continued northwest toward El Fedja. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• The "Grado" Battalion of the "San Marco" naval infantry regiment of Italian Navy was attached to German Army units in Tunisia. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Ira Eaker was named the commanding officer of the US Eighth Air Force in Britain, replacing Carl Spaatz. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

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