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• Cruiser Köln, with Admiral Scheer and Admiral Hipper, moved to the Alta Fjord to attack Allied Convoy PQ18, but the attack was aborted due to a British submarine attack. ww2dbase [Köln | CPC]
• Another attempt by the Soviet forces to break out of Leningrad, Russia failed. ww2dbase [Siege of Leningrad | TH]
• Japanese submarine I-30 returned to Japan from Lorient, France. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Yekaterina Budanova was assigned to the Soviet 437th Fighter Regiment. ww2dbase [Yekaterina Budanova | CPC]
• Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein shot down three Allied aircraft, increasing his total victories to 21. ww2dbase [Heinrich | CPC]
• John Redman was made the US Navy Pacific Fleet's chief communications officer. ww2dbase [CPC]
• British 29th and 22nd Infantry Brigades captured Majunga, Madagascar. Meanwhile, South African 7th Motor Brigade began advancing south from Diego-Suárez toward Tamatave. ww2dbase [Madagascar Campaign | CPC]
• Captain Paul L. Mather was named the commanding officer of USS Ancon. ww2dbase [Ancon | CPC]
• Ermland struck a mine and suffered some damage. ww2dbase [Ermland | CPC]
• The final 317 internees of the Portland Assembly Center in Oregon, United States departed for the Minidoka War Relocation Center in Idaho, United States. ww2dbase [Portland Assembly Center | CPC]

• German armed merchant cruiser Michel sank US freighter American Leader 850 miles west of Capetown, South Africa before dawn; 11 were killed, 47 survived and were captured by Michel. ww2dbase [Michel | Second Happy Time | CPC]
• German submarine U-96 attacked Allied convoy ON-127 765 miles west of Ireland at 1631 hours, sinking Belgian ship Elisabeth van Belgie (1 was killed, 55 survived), sinking Norwegian tanker Sveve (all 39 aboard survived; see further account below), and damaging British tanker F. J. Wolfe (all aboard survived). Sveve, which was at station 32 in the convoy, unsuccessfully attempted to steer hard to port to avoid the incoming torpedo. The torpedo hit just below the surface on the port side of the No. 5 main tank, filling the hold and pump room full of sea water within four minutes. This damage together with damaged bulkheads and long holes on the starboard side above the water line made the Master, Harald Hansen, order that the ship be abandoned. All 39 crew members including two gunners left the vessel in lifeboats, 20 minutes after the attack and within the hour they were picked up by the Canadian Flower-class corvette HMCS Sherbrooke (K 152). The corvette then attempted to sink the Sveve with 15 rounds from her gun, but it was not until the evening that she finally sank by the stern after the valves had been opened by the corvette's crew. At 2110 hours, ON-127 was again the target of an attack, this time by a wolfpack of 12 German submarines; U-659 disabled British tanker Empire Oil with 2 torpedoes (all 53 aboard survived). ww2dbase [Second Happy Time | CPC, HM]

• Matome Ugaki arrived at Rabaul, New Britain to meet with officers of the Japanese Navy 8th Fleet, Japanese Navy 11st Air Fleet, and Japanese Army 17th Army. ww2dbase [Matome Ugaki | Rabaul, New Britain | CPC]
• Japanese destroyers Isokaze and Yayoi departed Rabaul, New Britain for Goodenough Island, Australian Papua with intention of evacuating the 353 troops of the Japanese 5th Sasebo Special Naval Landing Force there. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 2 | Rabaul, New Britain | CPC]

• Shokaku departed Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Shokaku | Truk | CPC]
• Destroyer Yukikaze arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Yukikaze | Truk | CPC]

• Leonardo da Vinci departed Le Verdon-sur-Mer, France at 0800 hours, exercised along with midget submarine CA 2, and arrived at La Pallice, La Rochelle, France at 1750 hours. ww2dbase [Leonardo da Vinci | Le Verdon-sur-Mer, Aquitaine | CPC]

• The commanding officer of USS Silversides, LtCdr C.C. Burlingame, was awarded his second Navy Cross for his actions during the previous patrol and was promoted to full Commander. ww2dbase [Silversides | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]

• Japanese submarine I-29 sank British cargo ship Haresfield at the mouth of the Gulf of Aden, killing 12. ww2dbase [Raids into the Indian Ocean | Gulf of Aden | CPC]

• Kamoi arrived at Jaluit, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Kamoi | Jaluit | CPC]

• German 29th Motorized Infantry Division cut off Soviet 64th Army south of Stalingrad, Russia. ww2dbase [Battle of Stalingrad | Stalingrad | CPC]

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