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• The Soviet minesweeper T.114 (formerly the USS Alchemy) was sunk by the German submarine U-365 in the Kara Sea in the Arctic Circle. ww2dbase [AC]
• At the end of the day, USS Ray began pursuing a small Japanese convoy off Borneo, Dutch East Indies, firing 4 torpedoes, all of which missed. ww2dbase [Ray | CPC]

• USS Permit arrived at Brisbane, Australia, ending her thirteenth war patrol. ww2dbase [Permit | Brisbane, Queensland | CPC]

• The US submarine Flier struck a naval mine and sank in the Balacbac Strait just off the southern tip of Palawan in the Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Flier | Palawan | AC, CPC]

• A BQ-7 drone carrying 2,000 pounds of explosives reached the French coast, but missed its target. ww2dbase [Operation Aphrodite and Operation Anvil | CPC]
• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against roads in the area of Rouen, France. ww2dbase [Bombing of Cities in France and Low Countries | RAF Thurleigh | Rouen | DS]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of Night Fighting Squadron 79 (VF(N)-79) departed. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]
• USS Bergall arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Bergall | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• USS Cassin Young arrived at Eniwetok, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Cassin Young | Eniwetok | CPC]

• Light carrier Ryuho departed Kure, Japan and arrived at Hashirajima, Japan. ww2dbase [Ryuho | Hashirajima, Yamaguchi | CPC]

• USS Archerfish exchanged gunfire with a Japanese patrol boat in the Pacific Ocean south of Japan. The Japanese patrol boat was struck several times but did not sink. ww2dbase [Archerfish | CPC]

• After sundown, 20 aircraft from No. 205 Bomber Group RAF, 4 aircraft from No. 1586 (Polish Special Duties) Flight RAF, and 4 aircraft from No. 148 (Special Duties) Squadron RAF dropped supplies for resistance fighters in Warsaw, Poland. 1 British aircraft of No. 178 Squadron and 2 South African aircraft of No. 31 Squadron SAAF were lost. ww2dbase [Warsaw Uprising | Warsaw | CPC]

• There were 19 V-1 flying bombs launched against Britain by Heinkel aircraft from III/KG3 during the night, only half of the number launched by air the previous evening. The Gruppe were having to evacuate their base at Rozières, Picardy, France, as the Allied advance was approaching the area, they would fly to Venlo in the Netherlands but would not launch any further bombs for a week. Squadron 274 lost a pilot, Flight Sergeant Royston Ryman flew into a hilltop at Elham, Kent, whilst conducting an anti-Diver patrol. A further seventeen V-1 flying bombs were shot down by anti-aircraft fire, one of which fell and exploded near to Lydden Spout coastal battery at Dover, Kent where a serviceman was badly wounded and four others slightly injured. ww2dbase [V-Weapons Campaign | Vergeltungswaffe 1 | Dover, England | HM]

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