11 Feb 1943



- Admiral Yamamoto transferred his flag from Yamato to Musashi at Truk. ww2dbase [Yamato | CPC]
- Amon Göth was assigned to oversee the construction of the Plaszów labor camp in Poland. ww2dbase [Amon Göth | CPC]
- General Dwight Eisenhower was selected to command the Allied forces in Europe. ww2dbase [Dwight Eisenhower | CPC]
- US Liberty ship Starr King, while in tow by Australian destroyer HMAS Warramunga after receiving damage from an attack by Japanese submarine I-21 on the previous day, sank at 0230 hours. ww2dbase [AC]
- Lydia Litvyak shot down the German Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber piloted by Gerhard Weber and shared the credit for downing a Fw 190 fighter while flying a Yak-1 fighter. ww2dbase [Lydia Litvyak | CPC]
- Clifton Cates stepped down as the commanding officer of 1st Marine Regiment. ww2dbase [Clifton Cates | CPC]
- USS Grampus departed Brisbane, Australia for her sixth war patrol. ww2dbase [Grampus | Brisbane, Queensland | CPC]
- Admiral Yamamoto broke his flag aboard Musashi at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Musashi | Truk | CPC]
- Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Truk | CPC]
- While at Truk, Caroline Islands, Zuikaku detached a part of its air group to Buin, Bougainville Island, Australian Territory of New Guinea. ww2dbase [Zuikaku | Truk | CPC]
- USS New Mexico arrived at Nandi, Fiji. ww2dbase [New Mexico | Nandi | CPC]
- Alpino Bagnolini departed La Pallice, La Rochelle, France at 0814 for exercises, returning at 1134 hours. ww2dbase [Alpino Bagnolini | La Rochelle, Poitou-Charentes | CPC]
- Barbers Point Naval Air Station: The 243rd and 244th Marine Scouting/Bombing Squadrons (VMSB-243 & VMSB-244) arrived on board, aircraft based at Ewa. The officers and men departed for Ewa on the 26th of February. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]
- Japanese 6th Field Kempeitai departed Hiroshima, Japan aboard transport Aden Maru for Rabaul, New Britain. ww2dbase [Hiroshima | CPC]
- USS Tunny set sail for Midway Atoll. ww2dbase [Tunny | CPC]
- A transport from the Westerbork Concentration Camp in the Netherlands arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland with 476 men and 708 women; 113 men and 66 women were registered, and the remaining 1,005 were killed in the gas chambers. ww2dbase [Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Oswiecim | CPC]
- Ryan Aeronautical received a US Navy contract to build three piston-jet mix-powered prototype fighters. ww2dbase [FR Fireball | CPC]




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