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• USS Cassin Young arrived at Pearl Harbor. ww2dbase [Cassin Young | CPC]
• German troops occupied Hungary. Adolf Eichmann arrived in Hungary to begin mass deportation of the 750,000 Hungarian Jews who, thus far, had been largely unmolested. ww2dbase [Adolf Eichmann | CPC]
• Former Vichy French Interior Minister Pierre Pucheu was killed in Algiers in North Africa. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Soviet troops captured Mogilev-Podolski and Vinnitsa, Ukraine. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Lieutenant General Edson Burns took command of the Canadian First Corps. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Edmund Veesenmayer was assigned to the German embassy in Budapest, Hungary with plenipotentiary powers. ww2dbase [Edmund Veesenmayer | CPC]
• Louis Mountbatten recovered from his temporary blindness at Ledo, India, as pronounced by US Army eye specialist Captain Scheie. On the same day, he issued a reprimand against Orde Wingate for sending complaints of his fellow officers through clear text so that it could be read by all cipher and signals staff. ww2dbase [Louis Mountbatten | CPC]
• Léon Degrelle was awarded the Close Combat Clasp in Silver. ww2dbase [Léon Degrelle | CPC]
• Léon Degrelle was awarded the Wound Badge in Gold. ww2dbase [Léon Degrelle | CPC]

• U-1059 was sunk by depth charges dropped by a US Navy Avenger aircraft (Lieutenant (jg) N. T. Dowty of VC-6 squadron, USS Block Island) in the Atlantic Ocean about 960 kilometers or about 600 miles west-southwest of the Cape Verde Islands at 0726 hours. Her gunners were able to hit the Avenger aircraft on its second attack run, killing the pilot and one of the crew. ww2dbase [U-1059 | CPC]

• US Marines landed on Emirau, Bismarck Islands; the landings were not opposed. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | Emirau | CPC]

• Chinese 66th Regiment captured Jambu Bum ridge in northern Burma, about 140 kilometers northwest of Myitkyina. ww2dbase [Battle of Myitkyina | Jambu Bum | CPC]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Officers and men of Air Group 100 arrived on board. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• Allies launched Operation Strangle, which was consisted of air interdiction attacks on the rail yards at Sienna, Italy. ww2dbase [Sienna, Toscana | TH]
• British and New Zealand troops attacked German positions in the Cassino, Italy area, making very little progress in the face of German 1st Parachute Division. ww2dbase [Battle of Monte Cassino | Cassino, Lazio | CPC]
• Italian motor torpedo boats attacked the Allied beachhead at Anzio, Italy before dawn, engaging in brief combat. ww2dbase [Battle of Anzio | Anzio, Lazio | CPC]

• U-821 departed Bergen, Norway for her first war patrol. ww2dbase [U-821 | Bergen | CPC]

• Patrol Boat No. 102 departed Davao, Philippines at 1200 hours for a patrol. ww2dbase [Stewart | Davao, Mindanao | CPC]

• Vasily Chuikov was made a Hero of the Soviet Union for the first time and was awarded the Order of Lenin for the second time. ww2dbase [Vasily Chuikov | CPC]

• USS Proteus exited Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States and departed for Midway. ww2dbase [Mare Island Navy Yard | Proteus | Vallejo, California | CPC]
• Escort carrier USS Card arrived at Staten Island Army Base, New York. ww2dbase [Card | Staten Island, New York | DS]

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