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• 11 RAF Mosquito aircraft attacked Krefeld and Duisburg in Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | CPC]
• Captain Yoshimasa Sutezawa was named the commanding officer of Naka. ww2dbase [Naka | CPC]
• USS Gunnel ended her third war patrol. ww2dbase [Gunnel | CPC]
• U-23 completed her thirteenth war patrol. ww2dbase [U-23 | CPC]

• US Navy and US Marine Corps aircraft attacked a Japanese radar site at Cape Saint George, New Ireland. 3 F6F and 4 SBD aircraft were lost on this mission. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | Cape Saint George, New Ireland | CPC]

• U-1234 was launched at Deutsche Werft Hamburg, Germany. ww2dbase [Deutsche Werft Hamburg | U-1234 | Hamburg | CPC]
• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against the chemical plant at Ludwigshafen, Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | RAF Thurleigh | Ludwigshafen | DS]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Planes of Air Group 12 on board. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Sasebo, Japan. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Sasebo, Nagasaki | CPC]

• USS Puffer sank a Japanese trawler in the South China Sea with her deck gun. ww2dbase [Puffer | South China Sea | CPC]

• USS Iowa transited the Panama Canal. ww2dbase [Iowa | Panama Canal | CPC]

• Dwight Eisenhower departed Washington DC, United States. ww2dbase [Dwight Eisenhower | Washington | CPC]
• The US Court of Appeals upheld the original 1942 verdict against Fred Korematsu. ww2dbase [Internment of Japanese-Americans and Japanese-Canadians | Fred Korematsu | Washington | CPC]

7 Jan 1944 Interactive Map