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• Tatsuta Maru departed Osaka, Japan. ww2dbase [Tatsuta Maru | CPC]
• Germany finally mobilized her work force for total war, requiring registration of men aged 16 to 65 and women aged 17 to 50. ww2dbase [TH]
• Filipp Golikov was awarded the Order of Suvorov. ww2dbase [Filipp Golikov | CPC]
• Aleksandr Vasilevsky was awarded the Order of Suvorov 1st Class. ww2dbase [Aleksandr Vasilevsky | CPC]
• Vasily Chuikov was awarded the Order of Suvorov 1st Class for the first time. ww2dbase [Vasily Chuikov | CPC]
• Hubert Lanz was promoted to the rank of General der Gebirgstruppe and was made the commanding officer of Armeeabteilung Lanz army detachment. ww2dbase [Hubert Lanz | CPC]

• USS Wahoo sighted Fais Island, Caroline Islands; she attempted to shell the Japanese phosphate refinery, but the appearance of a Japanese freighter forced her to abandon the attack. ww2dbase [Wahoo | Fais | CPC]

• Submarine USS Spearfish departed Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i bound for the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in California. ww2dbase [Spearfish | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]

• Carrier USS Saratoga with destroyer USS Saufley among her escorts departed Nouméa, New Caledonia on a patrol of the waters north of the island. ww2dbase [Saufley | Nouméa | DS]

• Task Force 67 consisting of cruisers USS Nashville, USS Helena (St. Louis-class), USS Honolulu, and USS St. Louis with destroyers USS Drayton, USS Lamson, USS O’Bannon, and USS Reid departed Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides for patrols in the lanes southwest of the Santa Cruz Islands. ww2dbase [Walden Ainsworth | Helena (St. Louis-class) | Honolulu | St. Louis | Nashville | Segond Channel, Espiritu Santo | DS]

• As the German forces in Stalingrad, Russia were now divided into three pockets by Soviet attacks, Hermann Göring messaged Friedrich Paulus, noting that Paulus' stubborn defense, even if it led to self sacrifice, would go down in German history as one of the most heroic tales. ww2dbase [Battle of Stalingrad | Stalingrad | CPC]
• Georgy Zhukov was awarded the Order of Suvorov 1st Class for the first time; this was the very first Order of Suvorov given out by the Soviet Union. 22 more Suvorov 1st Class medals were given out on this date after Zhukov's award. ww2dbase [Georgy Zhukov | CPC]

• The US Army announced a plan to form a special Nisei combat team from Americans of Japanese parentage. Within days they receive over 10,000 volunteers for only 2,500 places. ww2dbase [AC]

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