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• Cruiser Köln was recommissioned for training of cadet engineers with Fregattenkapitän Hellmuth Strobel in command. ww2dbase [Köln | CPC]
• US bombers unintentionally hit Schaffhausen, Switzerland, leading to official protests and reparation payments. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | TH]
• The Japanese Navy 12th Air Fleet was reorganized to contain two air flotillas, one communication unit, one weather observation unit, and one air base unit. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Light carrier Ryuho arrived at Saipan, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Ryuho | CPC]
• USS Flying Fish sank a Japanese transport off Okinawa, Japan, hitting her with 2 of 2 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Flying Fish | CPC]
• Masafumi Arima was assigned to the fleet command for the Central Pacific area. ww2dbase [Masafumi Arima | CPC]
• Pedro del Valle was made Commanding General of the Third Corps Artillery, US III Marine Amphibious Corps. ww2dbase [Pedro del Valle | CPC]

• The Japanese attack on the Broadway site of Operation Thursday in Burma was repulsed. ww2dbase [Operation Thursday | CPC]
• The Japanese attempt to capture Nhpum Ga, Burma slowed as heavy rain poured. Lieutenant Colonel George McGee, Jr. at Nhpum Ga was informed by his superior Colonel Charles Hunter that Hunter was expecting a delivery of two 75-millimeter howitzers by air on the next day, which would hopefully relieve the pressure that the Japanese had been placing on McGee's 2nd Battalion of US 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional). ww2dbase [George McGee | Charles Hunter | Battle of Myitkyina | Nhpum Ga | CPC]

• The crew of USS Harder rescued a downed aviator on a small island west of Woleai, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Harder | Woleai | CPC]
• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) aviators struck the island of Woleai in the Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Yorktown (Essex-class) | Woleai | DS]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 100 commissioned this date. (AG-100 is a pilot replacement air group) ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• Japanese troops captured Nippon Hill near Imphal, India. ww2dbase [Battle of Imphal-Kohima | Imphal, Manipur | CPC]

• Patrol Boat No. 102 departed Si Amil island, Sabah, North Borneo at 0400 hours. She arrived at Balikpapan, Dutch East Indies later that day. ww2dbase [Stewart | Si Amil, Sabah | CPC]

• USS Portland screened fleet carriers as their aircraft struck enemy installations located in the Woleai, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Palau Islands and Ulithi Islands Campaigns | Portland | DS]

• Allied bombers attacked Schaffhausen, Switzerland, mistaking it for the German city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein, killing 40 people; interestingly, a group of small factories producing munitions and aircraft parts to be sold to Germany was destroyed in this accidental raid. ww2dbase [Schaffhausen | CPC]

• Fuel refinery No. 6 came online at Takao Guard District in southern Taiwan. ww2dbase [Takao Guard District | Takao | CPC]

• Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Sargent Bay arrived at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard at Bremerton, Washington, United States. ww2dbase [Sargent Bay | | Bremerton, Washington | DS]

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