Air Operations, CBI
A 3rd AVG Fighter Squadron P-40 shoots down a Japanese Army reconnaissance plane near Loiwing, Burma during the afternoon.
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]Air Operations, Europe
BOMBER COMMAND18 Hampdens and 8 Manchesters lay mines in the Frisians and off Denmark. 6 aircraft are involved on leaflet flights over France. 2 Manchester minelayers are lost.
[ | ]Air Operations, North Africa
There is a German air raid on Tobruk.
[ | ]Arctic
A British convoy for Murmansk is engaged unsuccessfully by German surface forces. The Tirpitz and the other heavy units of the German fleet are now based in Norway posing a further threat to convoys. The convoy reaches Murmansk successfully lifting Allied hopes. The Murmansk run is the most dangerous of the war.
[ | ]Battle of the Atlantic
The US steamship City of New York (8272t) is torpedoed and sunk by U-160 about 40 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Of the 132 persons on board, 26 are killed. Survivors are rescued by the US destroyer Greer (DD-145) and Roper (DD-147) and the cutter Acushnet (AT-63)/
[ | ]Britain, Home Front
Another National Day of Prayer is observed at the request of King George VI.
[ | ]Burma
At the request of Gen Stilwell in order to relieve the Japanese pressure on the Chinese in the Toungoo area, British forces attack Boungde(Paungde?). The positions of the I Burma Corps becomes precarious when the Japanese take up positions just north of Padigon and at Shwedaung on the east bank of the Irrawaddy. The Chinese accuse the Japanese of using poison gas and bacteriological warfare.
[ | ]India, Home Front
The British government's constitutional proposals for India are published. India is to have full Dominion status after the war. Britain will defend the sub-contintent until then.
[ | ]Mediterranean
The British submarine Proteus attacks an Italian convoy of steamers heading for Bari sinking the Galilea (8040t). Of the 1,275 men on board only 284 are rescued. Most of the losses are Alpine troops from the Battaglione Gemona.
[ | ]Philippines
Philippine guerillas are organized as the Anti-Japanese Peoples Army, the Hukbalahaps, under communist leader Luis Tarue.
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