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• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Manila, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | CPC]
• Benito Mussolini declared the Repubblica Sociale Italiana in Northern Italy. ww2dbase [Benito Mussolini | CPC]
• John Basilone participated in a bond tour event in Scanton, Pennsylvania, United States. ww2dbase [John Basilone | CPC]
• USS Bailey departed San Diego bound for San Francisco, California. ww2dbase [Bailey | DS]

• German submarine U-711 shelled the Soviet wireless telegraph station at Pravdy in northern Russia. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | CPC]

• Yamato, Nagato, Shokaku, Zuikaku, Takao, Atago, Myoko, Haguro, and a destroyer screen sortied from Truk, Caroline Islands to Brown Island (Eniwetok), Marshall Islands with Combined Fleet under Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa's tactical command in response to the US Task Force 15 carrier raids on Tarawa and Makin. ww2dbase [Yamato | Jisaburo Ozawa | Myoko | Haguro | Atago | Takao | Nagato | Zuikaku | Shokaku | Truk | CPC]

• USS Bluefish sank small Japanese ship with her deck gun in the Dutch East Indies. ww2dbase [Bluefish | CPC]
• USS Sunfish damaged a Japanese transport in the Pacific Ocean, hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Sunfish (Gato-class) | CPC]
• After stalking a Japanese convoy for a day and a half covering 230 miles, submarine USS Spearfish fired eight torpedoes at three different ships and scored five hits. One 7,000-ton cargo ship sank after nearly being broken in two. Two 5,500-ton freighters were badly damaged and possibly sunk. Spearfish was able to evade the ensuing depth charge attack without damage. ww2dbase [Spearfish | DS]

• U-537 departed Kiel, Germany for her first war patrol. She carried Wetter-Funkgerät Land-26 weather station equipment along with meteorology expert Dr. Kurt Sommermeyer and his assistant Walter Hildebrant on board. ww2dbase [U-537 | Weather Station Kurt | Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein | CPC]

• Irako arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. ww2dbase [Irako | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]

• Yolande Beekman was delivered into German-occupied France via a Lysander aircraft before dawn. ww2dbase [Yolande Beekman | CPC]

• USS Cisco arrived at Darwin, Australia. ww2dbase [Cisco | Darwin, Northern Territory | CPC]
• USS Nicholas arrived at Brisbane, Australia. ww2dbase [Nicholas | Brisbane | DS]

• USS Corvina departed Groton, Connecticut, United States. ww2dbase [Corvina | Electric Boat Company | Groton, Connecticut | CPC]

• Headquarters of British V Corps arrived at Taranto, Italy. ww2dbase [Operation Avalanche | Taranto, Puglia | CPC]
• Italian Navy Xa Flottiglia MAS based at Pola, Italy (occupied Pula, Yugoslavia) under Lieutenant Commander Umberto Bardelli reported the strength of 350 men. ww2dbase [CPC]

• US Marine Corps squadron VMF-214 attacked a Japanese convoy destined for Vella Lavella in the Solomon Islands. Pilot Chris Magee shot down 2 Japanese D3A aircraft (with a further 1 probable) during this attack. ww2dbase [CPC]

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