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• U-530 was assigned to the 10. Unterseebootflottille (10th Submarine Flotilla). ww2dbase [U-530 | CPC]
• Cruiser Köln was taken out of service and would remain so for one year. ww2dbase [Köln | CPC]
• German troops began falling back from the Rzhev area in Russia. ww2dbase [TH]
• Heinz Guderian was appointed Inspector-General of Armoured Troops. ww2dbase [Heinz Guderian | AC]
• US Marine Corps established its first medium bomber squadron, Marine Bomber Squadron 413, at Cherry Point, North Carolina, United States. ww2dbase [CPC]
• The Northern Group of the Chindits reached Zibyutaungdan, Burma and began to move into the Mu valley. ww2dbase [Operation Longcloth | CPC]
• Submarine ShCh-205 was awarded guard ship status. ww2dbase [ShCh-205 | CPC]
• Lydia Litvyak shot down a German Fw 190 fighter while flying a Yak-1 fighter. ww2dbase [Lydia Litvyak | CPC]
• Nikolai Kamanin stepped down as the commanding officer of 292nd Air Division; he was succeeded by Filipp Agaltsov. ww2dbase [Nikolai Kamanin | CPC]

• Coronel arrived at Kiel, Germany. ww2dbase [Togo / Coronel | Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein | CPC]

• The American Jewish Congress sponsored an event at the Madison Square Garden in New York City where 20,000 people gathered and called for Allied and neutral nations to provide sanctuaries for refugees and called for the United States and United Kingdom (ie. the British mandate of Palestine) to relax immigration restrictions. ww2dbase [New York | CPC]
• Clifton Cates was named the commandant of Marine Corps Schools in Quantico, Virginia, United States. ww2dbase [Clifton Cates | Quantico, Virginia | CPC]

• George Kenney and Richard Sutherland met with Chester Nimitz in Honolulu, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [George Kenney | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Marine Fighting Squadron 215 (VMF-215; Model F4U-1) on board. Marine Fighting Squadron 222 (VMF-222; Model F4U-1) on board. Aviation Operations bldg. usably complete. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]
• The 160-acre Honouliuli Gulch Detention Camp opened on Oahu, Hawai'i. The Sand Island camp in Honolulu sent all 149 of its Japanese American internees to Honouliuli Gulch. ww2dbase [Internment of Japanese-Americans and Japanese-Canadians | Honouliuli Gulch Internment and Prisoners of War Camp | Honouliuli, Oahu | DS]

• Kamoi arrived at Kupang, West Timor, Dutch East Indies. ww2dbase [Kamoi | Kupang, West Timor | CPC]

• The Japanese convoy Operation 81 (consisted of 6 transports, 1 old navy supply ship, and 1 small freighter, carrying a total of 6,600 troops) departed Rabaul, New Britain. The convoy was discovered by Lieutenant Walt Higgins' B-24 patrol along the northern coast of New Britain at 1500 hours; 7 B-17 bombers were dispatched to attack, but they failed to locate the convoy. ww2dbase [Solomon Islands Campaign | Rabaul, New Britain | CPC]
• USS Greenling dropped off Australian and New Britain natives at Cape Orford, New Britain. They were to serve as coast watchers. ww2dbase [Greenling | Cape Orford, New Britain | CPC]

• Allied convoy RA-53 departed the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia; it was consisted of 30 freighters and was escorted by 31 warships. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Murmansk | CPC]

• The 9,283-ton Dutch steam merchant ship Madoera, damaged by German submarine U-653 five days prior, reached St. John's, Newfoundland after navigating through an ice field. ww2dbase [St. John's | HM]

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