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• The German SS organization ordered that prisoners who have committed sabotage were to be publicly executed. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Swiss authorities destroyed the new German Bf 110 aircraft that was brought into Switzerland by a defector pilot two days prior. In appreciation of this gesture, Germany provided Switzerland 12 Me 109 fighters. ww2dbase [Bf 110 | CPC]
• USS Tunny arrived in Brisbane, Australia, ending her fifth war patrol. ww2dbase [Tunny | CPC]
• Fieberling was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Fieberling | CPC]
• Me 410 fighters shot down 10 B-17 bombers over Europe on this date. ww2dbase [Me 410 Hornisse | CPC]

• U-860, a Type IX-D Type German submarine, under Fregattenkapitän Paul Büchel, set sail from Kiel, Germany. She carried, among others, 100 tons of mercury and 100 tons of lead for Japan as well as location devices, test equipment, tools and consumables for 4 submarines in East Asia. She was to make a stop at Kristiansand, Norway before heading into the Atlantic Ocean. ww2dbase [U-860 | Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein | HM]
• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland). ww2dbase [RAF Thurleigh | Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Stettin | DS]

• Haskell-class Attack Transport USS Sarasota was laid down at Kaiser Richmond Shipyard No. 2. This was the first of 22 Haskell-class ship built at the Richmond yards. ww2dbase [Kaiser Richmond Shipyards | Haskell-class | Richmond, California | DS]

• The Gestapo HQ in The Hague, Netherlands was attacked by RAF Mosquito aircraft. ww2dbase [Bombing of Cities in France and Low Countries | The Hague | TH]

• Submarine USS Thresher shifted to the Oroluk Atoll in the Caroline Islands and began making a close reconnaissance survey. Thresher observed a single Liberator bomber make a bombing attack on Oroluk Island and then Thresher made a surfaced shelling of Oroluk Island using 30 rounds from her 5-inch deck gun with unobserved results. ww2dbase [Thresher | Oruluk Atoll | DS]

• USS Pollack arrived at Midway Atoll, ending her ninth war patrol. ww2dbase [Midway Bases | Pollack | Midway | CPC]

• USS Flying Fish arrived at Majuro, Marshall Islands, ending her ninth war patrol. ww2dbase [Flying Fish | Majuro | CPC]

• Anglo-Indian and Japanese troops began a four-day clash at Bunker Hill near Kohima, India. ww2dbase [Battle of Imphal-Kohima | Kohima, Assam | CPC]

• Patrol Boat No. 102 arrived at Balikpapan, Dutch East Indies at 1654 hours. ww2dbase [Stewart | Balikpapan, Borneo | CPC]

• Yamato departed Kure, Japan for trials in the Iyo Nada; she arrived at Hashirajima island in Hiroshima Bay that evening. ww2dbase [Yamato | Hashirajima, Yamaguchi | CPC]

• Soviet troops captured Kerch, Russia. ww2dbase [Kerch, Krym | TH]

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