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• Lieutenant Commander Masamichi Terauchi was named the commanding officer of destroyer Yukikaze. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• 25 RAF Mosquito aircraft attacked Leverkusen, Germany. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• 64th Bomb Squadron (flying B-24 aircraft) of USAAF 43rd Bomb Group was transferred from Port Moresby to Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Torokina Airfield at Bougainville, Solomon Islands was declared fully operational after a short 40-day construction. 17 F4U aircraft of US Marine Corps squadron VMF-216 became the first to officially arrive at the airfield, although the airfield had already received two unscheduled emergency landings on 24 Nov 1943 and 8 Dec 1943. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• René-Émile Godfroy was forced into retirement. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Karl von Le Suire issued the order to destroy the town of Kalavryta, Greece as retribution for the killing of 78 German soldiers by Greek ELAS partisan fighters. This would result in the Massacre of Kalavryta thre days later, which saw the death of about 700 Greek civilians. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• British Eighth Army, with Canadian elements, crossed the Moro River in Italy and entered "The Gully", capturing Vino Ridge. To the west, US troops captured the heights surrounding the Mignano Gap in Italy. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH, CPC]

• The keel of landing ship No. 129 was laid down by Kawanami Kogyo. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Irako arrived at Saipan, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• Allen Dulles, OSS Station chief in Switzerland, reported to Washington details of the development of a new German U-boat fitted with Schnorkel underwater breathing devices. ww2dbase [AC]

• USS Wake Island arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

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