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• RAF bombers attacked Stuttgart, Germany before dawn; during the day, USAAF bombers bombed Bremen, Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | TH]
• USS Rock was commissioned into service with Commander John Jay Flachsenhar in command. ww2dbase [Rock | CPC]
• USS Scorpion completed a reconnaissance mission of Agrihan and Pagan islands in the Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Scorpion | CPC]
• The human collection at the University of Strasbourg in Strasbourg, Alsace, France was destroyed, as reported by the scientists who performed research on them for the Nazi regime. In actuality, there was not enough time to destroy the entire collection, and a few cadavers were hidden, to be found later. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
• Light carrier Ryuho departed Singapore. ww2dbase [Ryuho | CPC]
• Vasily Chuikov was awarded the Order of Lenin for the first time. ww2dbase [Vasily Chuikov | CPC]

• Yamato, Musashi, Fuso, Nagato, Kongo, Haruna, Shokaku, Zuikaku, Takao, Atago, Maya, Chokai, Mogami, Suzuya, Tone, Chikuma, Agano, Oyodo, and a destroyer screen arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Yamato | Tone | Agano | Oyodo | Chokai | Maya | Atago | Suzuya | Mogami | Chikuma | Haruna | Kongo | Fuso | Nagato | Zuikaku | Shokaku | Musashi | Takao | Mineichi Koga | Truk | CPC]
• Repair ship Akashi performed repair work for submarine I-180 at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Akashi | Truk | CPC]

• Gato-class submarine USS Silversides caught up with what was left of Convoy O-006 and attacked with six torpedoes. Definite hits were made but the final results were not observed. Down to one torpedo, Silversides received orders to return to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ww2dbase [Silversides | DS]

• USAAF 14th Air Force deployed naval mines at the entrance of Haiphong harbor in northern French Indochina. US Navy Sino-American Special Technical Cooperative Organization (SACO) intelligence officers Raymond Kotrla, Ralph DuBois, and Duncan McCann were aboard to provide naval expertise. As they departed, the lead ship of a Japanese convoy struck a mine, blocking the harbor entrance for the rest of the war. The remainder of the convoy fled toward Hainan island, China to the east, but they would be discovered by a second wave of B-24 bombers, which sank six of the ships. ww2dbase [Haiphong, Tonkin | CPC]

• Lieutenant Commander Walter Griffith relieved Commander Joseph Willingham as commanding officer of submarine USS Bowfin at Fremantle, Australia. ww2dbase [Bowfin | Fremantle | DS]

• 82 B-25 bombers were launched from Port Moresby, Australian Papua; their mission to attack Rabaul, New Britain was canceled mid-flight due to poor weather. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | Port Moresby | CPC]

• USS Corregidor departed San Diego, California, United States. ww2dbase [Corregidor | San Diego, California | CPC]

• Off Guadalcanal, a task group was formed consisting of destroyers USS Waller, USS Saufley, and USS Cony, minesweepers USS Conflict, USS Daring, and USS Adroit, and 10 troop landing ships (LCIs). The task group departed bound for the Treasury Islands south of Bougainville. ww2dbase [Waller | Saufley | Solomon Islands | DS]

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