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• German female aviator Hanna Reitsch presented a proposal of a squadron of suicide pilots to Adolf Hitler. ww2dbase [Hanna Reitsch | CPC]
• Oberleutnant zur See Werner Sausmikat was made the commanding officer of U-56, relieving Hugo Deiring. ww2dbase [U-56 | CPC]

• 80th Fighter Squadron (flying P-38 aircraft) of USAAF 80th Fighter Group was transferred out of Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua. ww2dbase [Dobodura Airfield | Dobodura | CPC]

• Destroyers USS Waller, USS Saufley, USS Philip, USS Renshaw, USS Conway, USS Pringle, USS Eaton, and USS Sigourney departed Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands bound for Cape St. George on New Ireland on a bombardment sortie. ww2dbase [Renshaw | Philip | Saufley | Pringle | Waller | Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands | DS]

• All three battalions of the US 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional) arrived at the village of Tanja Ga in Burma about 22 miles east-northeast of Ningbyen. The village was the assembly area from which they would commence its campaign against the Japanese. Joseph Stilwell ordered the unit to begin marching toward Malawbum, 40 miles away, as soon as possible. The 2nd Battalion and 3rd Battalion would depart at dusk. ww2dbase [Battle of Myitkyina | Joseph Stilwell | Tanja Ga | CPC]

• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against rocket launching facilities near Trouville, France. ww2dbase [Bombing of Cities in France and Low Countries | RAF Thurleigh | Trouville | DS]

• An experimental Wasserfall radio controlled anti-aircraft rocket was launched from Griefswalder Oie, an island near Peenemünde, Germany. The missile, intended for the defence of German cities, reached a height of 23,000 feet, a third of what had been hoped for. Eventually some fifty of these rockets were made but further development was stopped, in Feb 1945, when it was found that about a third had suffered failures for one reason or another. ww2dbase [Peenemünde Army Research Center | Griefswalder Oie, Pommern | AC]

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

• Landing ship No. 127 was completed. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]

• Allied convoy JW-57 arrived at the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Murmansk | CPC]

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