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• USS Cod sank a Japanese cargo ship. ww2dbase [Cod | CPC]
• The Germans lost 36 Linsen boats - small motorboats packed with explosives - attempting to disrupt traffic in the Scheldt estuary controlling the approach to the port of Antwerp, Belgium. On the same day, Canadian forces entered the Netherlands, capturing Kerkrade. ww2dbase [Battle of the Scheldt Estuary | TH]
• Franklin Roosevelt told Chiang Kaishek that Joseph Stilwell was to be relieved as Chiang's chief of staff and as the Lend-Lease director, but he would remain in China as the commanding officer of American troops in China and Burma. ww2dbase [Franklin Roosevelt | CPC]
• USS Nicholas arrived at Hollandia, New Guinea and moored alongside tender USS Dobbin. ww2dbase [Nicholas | DS]

• Emden began laying mines in the Skagerrak. ww2dbase [Emden | Skagerrak | CPC]

• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against Cologne and Koblenz, Germany. ww2dbase [RAF Thurleigh | Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Köln, Köln-Aachen | DS]

• Soviet First Baltic Front resumed the offensive toward Memel (now Klaipeda, Lithuania) to cut off German Armeegruppe Nord. ww2dbase [Operation Bagration | TH, CPC]

• Landing ship No. 112 was completed and was transferred to the Japanese Army. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]

• Four TDR drones, each carrying a 2,000-pound bomb, were launched against Japanese supply caves near the coast of Keravia Bay, south of Rabaul, New Britain. One hit in the vicinity of cave entrances, one missed the target area, two were lost enroute due to interference from communications frequency used by motor gunboats operating in the waters over which the drones flew. ww2dbase [TDR | New Britain | DS]
• USS Bailey arrived at Seeadler Harbor, Manus, Admiralty Islands and came alongside destroyer tender USS Sierra. ww2dbase [Bailey | Manus, Admiralty Islands | DS]

• While at Norfolk, Captain George Dufek relieved Captain Vosseller as commanding officer of USS Bogue. ww2dbase [Norfolk Navy Yard | Bogue | Norfolk, Virginia | DS]
• USS St. Louis departed San Pedro, California for shakedown exercises off the California coast. ww2dbase [St. Louis | San Pedro, California | DS]

• US II Corps, with British troops in support, launched a new attack toward Bologna, Italy. To the east, Indian 10th Infantry Division crossed the Fiumicino River, forcing German 10th Army to pull back toward Bologna. ww2dbase [Gothic Line Offensive | CPC]

• A German V-2 rocket hit Acle near Norwich, England, United Kingdom, temporarily causing blockage to a road. Another rocket hit Surlingham, downing several telephone lines. ww2dbase [V-Weapons Campaign | Vergeltungswaffe 2 | Acle, England | CPC]
• Allied convoy RA-60 arrived at Loch Ewe, Scotland, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Loch Ewe, Scotland | CPC]
• Major General Orvil Anderson, US Eighth Air Force deputy commander for operations, informed the Polish government-in-exile that US bases in the Soviet Union were now closed, and there would be no more American missions to drop supplies to Polish resistance fighters. ww2dbase [Warsaw Uprising | London, England | CPC]

• Submarine USS Narwhal arrived at Mios Woendi, Dutch New Guinea (now Papua, Indonesia). Narwhal's fourteenth war patrol was concluded. All passengers were disembarked and transported to the base hospital. On arrival, Commander William Holman relieved Commander Jack Titus as Narwhal's commanding officer. Commander Titus was awarded the Legion of Merit for his exceptionally meritorious conduct during this patrol. ww2dbase [Narwhal | Mios Woendi | DS]

• Destroyer USS Shaw departed Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands bound for the Ulithi anchorage in the Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Shaw | Eniwetok | DS]

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