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• The I. G. Farben factory in Oppau, Germany increased the minimum requirement of work for forced laborers to 67 hours per week. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Claude Auchinleck compromised in regards to Orde Wingate's demands, offering to provide him with five brigades (Wingate had wanted eight) for operations in Burma. ww2dbase [Claude Auchinleck | CPC]
• German submarine U-354 pursued an Allied convoy off northern Russia to no success. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | CPC]
• USS Bailey departed San Diego bound for San Francisco, California. ww2dbase [Bailey | DS]

• USS Bluefish arrived at Brisbane, Australia. ww2dbase [Bluefish | Brisbane, Queensland | CPC]

• USS Hoe departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her second war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Hoe | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: More of Air Group 9 departed. Part of Air Group 5 departed. Part of Air Group 23 departed. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• George Patton apologized to Private Paul Bennett whom he slapped at the 93rd Evacuation Hospital for accused cowardice. ww2dbase [George Patton | Sicilia | CPC]

• Escort carrier USS Card and her task group departed Casablanca and resumed their anti-submarine patrols in the mid-Atlantic. ww2dbase [Card | Casablanca | DS]

• Gato-class submarine USS Silversides tracked and photographed the properly marked Japanese hospital ship Buenos Aires Maru bound from Rabaul to Manila. ww2dbase [Silversides | DS]

• The authorities at the Birkenau women's camp at Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland selected 498 Jewish women considered unable to work for the gas chamber; 438 of them were Greeks. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Oswiecim | CPC]

• Comandante Cappellini (Aquilla III) departed Singapore with 110 tons of rubber, 44 tons of tin ingots, and 10 tons of miscellaneous cargo aboard. She was escorted by Italian sloop Eritrea. ww2dbase [Comandante Cappellini | Singapore | CPC]

• Erich von Manstein authorized the retreat from Kharkov, Ukraine. ww2dbase [Fourth Battle of Kharkov | Kharkov | CPC]

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