US NAVY
PACIFIC—PBY (VP 23) departs Wake Island; Japanese concern
over the potential presence of patrol planes at Wake, occasioned by the large
amount of radio traffic that accompanies the sole PBY's arrival at the island,
prompts advancing the date of the first carrier strikes. Consequently, planes
from carriers Soryu and Hiryu bomb Wake Island for the first
time. Later that day, land attack planes (Chitose Kokutai) bomb Wake.
Naval local
defense forces in Philippine Islands (Rear Admiral Francis W. Rockwell) move
headquarters to Corregidor.
Destroyer Paul
Jones (DD‑230) is damaged when her starboard propeller strikes a sunken
object off Makassar, N.E.I.
Coast Guard
cutter Shawnee rescues 31 survivors of U.S. tanker Emidio, sunk
the previous day by I 17 off Cape Mendocino, California, from
Blunt's Reef Lightship.
ATLANTIC—Light cruiser Omaha (CL‑4) and destroyer Somers
(DD‑381), operating out of Recife, Brazil, encounter darkened ship that
acts suspicious and evasive when challenged. Omaha fires star shell and
illuminates the stranger; Somers sends armed boarding party that learns
that the merchantman nearly fired upon is Soviet freighter Nevastroi.
Destroyer Edison
(DD‑439), in TU 4.1.3 en route to MOMP to pick up convoy ON 47, depth‑charges
sound contact without result.
US ARMY AIR FORCE
US ARMY
WAKE—Japanese carrier planes begin preinvasion bombardment
of defenses, supplementing attacks by shore-based aircraft. The relief force
(TF 14) is within 627 miles of the island.
PHILLIPINE ISLANDS—3 convoys from Formosa and the
Pescadores, bearing main body of Japanese 14th Army assault force,
arrive in Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, night 21–22. Filipino 11th Division makes
contact with Japanese Vigan force at Bacnotan.
MALAYA—Indian 11th Division takes command of all troops W
of Perak R, including those on Grik road, who are still heavily engaged, and
begins withdrawal behind Perak River
US MARINE CORPS
PHILLIPINE ISLANDS—Naval defense forces in Philippine
Islands move headquarters to Corregidor.
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