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• The Japanese Army Fugaki Squadron, based in the Philippine Islands, conducted its first tokko mission with five converted Ki-67-I Kai To-Go aircraft, without success. ww2dbase [Philippines Campaign, Phase 1, the Leyte Campaign | CPC]
• Colonel George E. Price received the go-ahead for Project Extraversion, which called for four YP-80A jet aircraft to move to the front lines of the European Theater of Operations for combat testing. ww2dbase [P-80 Shooting Star | CPC]

• Escort carrier USS Bogue and her task group departed Bermuda for three days of anti-submarine exercises against friendly Italian submarine Onice. ww2dbase [Onice | Bogue | Port Royal Bay | DS]

• Attun Palalin, also known as Private Teruo Nakamura of the Japanese Army 4th Takasago Volunteer Unit, was declared dead on Morotai, Dutch East Indies. ww2dbase [Attun Palalin | Morotai, Maluku Islands | CPC]

• General Philippe LeClerc's Free French troops attacked to the Upper Rhine out of Alsace, France. ww2dbase [Advance to the Rhine | Philippe Leclerc | Alsace | TH]

• USS Caiman departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Caiman | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• Landing ship No. 115 was completed and was transferred to the Japanese Army. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]

• Shortly after midnight, USS Nicholas made sonar contact with a submarine detected by radar the previous evening. Nicholas made a depth charge attack that sank Japanese Type-B1 submarine I-38. Later, cruiser USS St. Louis and destroyers USS Nicholas and USS Taylor arrived at Kossol Roads, Palau. ww2dbase [Nicholas | DS]

• USS Ticonderoga launched Air Group 80 aircraft for strikes on Manila and surrounding targets on Luzon, Philippine Islands; 2 men and 4 aircraft were lost. ww2dbase [Ticonderoga | DS]

• Patrol Boat No. 102 departed Saei District of Takao (Chinese: Zuoying District of Kaohsiung), Taiwan at 0129 hours, arriving at Haikou, Hainan, China at 2326 hours. ww2dbase [Stewart | Takao | CPC]

• Civil air service was restored to London, England, United Kingdom for the first time since Sep 1939 when Railway Air Services began flight operations on a Croydon-Liverpool-Belfast route. ww2dbase [London, England | AC]

• German forces withdraw from Skopje, Yugoslavia. ww2dbase [Belgrade Strategic Offensive Operation | Skopje, Macedonia | TH]

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