Air Operations, CBI
- The RAF bombs Akyab, Burma.
- 7th Heavy Bomb Group B-17s attack the airfield at Myitkyina rendering it unusable.
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]Air Operations, Europe
BOMBER COMMAND7 Lancasters and 7 Manchesters lay mines off Heligoland and Kiel. There are no losses.
[ | ] Inspecting the 9th Armored Division |
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Air Operations, New Guinea
14 5th Air Force B-25s and 4 22nd Medium Bomb Group attack Lae and Lae's airfield.
[ | ]Air Operations, Pacific
5th Air Force bombers attack the Japanese seaplane base at Deboyne Island.
[ | ]Caribbean
U-103 shells and sinks the unarmed US freighter Ruth Lykes (2612t) with the loss of 5 of her crew.
[ | ]Eastern Front
The Germans capture Kerch dashing Russian hopes that the siege of Sevastopol can be lifted any time soon.[MORE]
Bodies and Destroyed War Material on the Beach of Kerch |
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U-506, operating off the Louisiana coast, torpedoes the US tanker Sun (9002t). There are no casualties and the ship is able to reach New Orleans. The U-boat next torpedoes and shells the US tanker William C. McTarnahan (7306t) with the loss of 18 of her 38-man crew. Later, U-506 torpedoes and sinks the US tanker Gulfoil (5189t) about 75 miles southwest of the mouth of the Mississippi. Only 19 survive of her 40-man complement.
[ | ]Pacific
The US submarine Tautog (SS-199) torpedoes the Japanese fleet tanker Goyo Maru (8469t) west of Royalist Bank, Truk.
[ | ]United States, Home Front
Oveta Culp Hobby is appointed Director of Women's Auxiliary Army Corps.
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United States, Politics
Roosevelt orders the release of US Communist party leader Earl Browder from federal prison. He had served 14 months of a sentence for passport irregularities, which the Russians insist was a trumped-up charge. Moscow has been calling for his release since the Soviets became allies of the US.
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