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• American operations on Guadalcanal, previously conducted by the US Marines under Major General Alexander Vandegrift, were turned over to the US Army under Major General Alexander Patch. The 1st Marine Division began its withdraw to Australia. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• HMS Marigold (Lieutenant J. A. S. Halcrow) was sunk by an Italian torpedo off Algiers, Algeria. ww2dbase [AC]

• USS Wahoo departed Caroline Islands waters. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Aleksandr Vasilevsky and Georgy Zhukov presented to Joseph Stalin a plan for a counteroffensive at Stalingrad, Russia. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Germany agreed to cede to Italy the French warships captured at Bizerte, Tunisia in the previous month. They included sloop La Batailleuse, sloop Commandant Rivière, torpedo boat Bombarde, torpedo boat La Pomone, torpedo boat L'Iphigénie, submarine Phoque, submarine Saphir, submarine Requin, submarine Espadon, submarine Dauphin, submarine Turquoise, submarine Circé, submarine Calypso, and submarine Nautilus. ww2dbase [CPC]

• USS S-28 departed San Diego, California, United States. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• The Caucasian captain of Liberty ship David J. Brewer, the first to dock at Port Chicago, California, United States, reluctantly agreed to allow African-American stevedores to load ordnance onto his ship. ww2dbase [CPC]

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