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• RAF Mosquito aircraft conducted a daring low-level raid on the Gestapo Headquarters in Oslo, Norway. ww2dbase [TH]
• Japanese troops landed on Beru, Gilbert Islands. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Japanese ships ferried 100 fighters and 80 bombers to Rabaul, New Britain. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Hitler dismissed the Chief of the Army General Staff, Colonel-General Halder, and appointed General Zeitzler to succeed him. At the same time responsibility for the employment of General Staff Corps personnel was taken away from the Chief of the General Staff and given to the Army Personnel Office, which was directly subordinate to Hitler. ww2dbase [Kurt Zeitzler | AC]
• Captain Gilbert Corwin Hoover was named the commanding officer of USS Helena, relieving Commander Oliver Middleton. ww2dbase [Helena (St. Louis-class) | CPC]

• Akagi was removed from the Japanese Navy List. ww2dbase [Akagi | CPC]

• USS S-38 arrived at Nouméa, New Caledonia. ww2dbase [S-38 | Nouméa | CPC]

• In England, United Kingdom, RAF Wickenby, recently completed from land requisitioned by the Air Ministry in 1941, became operational with the arrival from Binbrook of No. 12 Squadron of 1 Group Bomber Command. Initially flying Wellington bombers, the squadron would convert to Lancaster bombers in Nov 1942. ww2dbase [Wickenby, England | AC]
• After sundown, German aircraft attacked Penzance, southwestern England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Battle of Britain | Penzance, England | CPC]
• Isaac Sweers departed Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom for Scapa Flow, Scotland, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Isaac Sweers | Portsmouth, England | CPC]

• Franklin Roosevelt dedicated the US Marine Corps base Camp Pendleton in San Diego County, California, United States. ww2dbase [Franklin Roosevelt | San Diego, California | CPC]
• James Gavin was promoted to the war time rank of colonel. ww2dbase [James Gavin | CPC]

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