US NAVY
GENERAL—Naval Coastal Frontiers--Eastern, Gulf, Caribbean,
Panama, Hawaiian, Northwest, Western, Philippine--are redesignated as Sea
Frontiers.
U.S. and
Britain establish Combined Chiefs of Staff.
PACIFIC—Japanese land reinforcements at Lingayen Gulf.
Japanese
artillery on the Cavite coast, near Ternate, shell Corregidor, Fort Hughes,
Fort Frank, Fort Drum and anchorage of Inshore Patrol off South Harbor,
Corregidor; river gunboat Luzon (PR-7) is hit by a shell in her vacant
admiral’s quarters; there are no casualties.
ATLANTIC—Unarmed U.S. freighter Major Wheeler, en
route from Fajardo, Puerto Rico, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is torpedoed
and sunk by German submarine U-107. There are no survivors from the 35
man crew.
British
freighter Hartlepool comes across lifeboat from torpedoed U.S. tanker W.L.
Steed (sunk by German submarineU-103 on 2 February) and rescues the
two survivors she finds; one of them will die in hospital on 10 February of
exposure (see 12 February).
US ARMY AIR FORCE
COMBINED CHIEFS OF STAFF—WD announces creation of
US-British CCS in Washington.
US ARMY
UNITED STATES—Naval
Coastal Frontiers are redesignated Sea Frontiers.
LUZON—In I Corps area, Japanese receive reinforcements and
attack late in day to relieve pockets. While some elements increase pressure
against 1st and 11th Philippine Divisions, others drive toward Big Pocket until
stopped by 11th Division 800 yards from objective. Small salient in corps MAIN
LINE OF RESISTANCE is thus formed and called Upper Pocket. In Manila Bay area,
Japanese artillery, emplaced along S shore of Manila Bay in vicinity of
Ternate, begins daily bombardment of fortified islands. Forts Drum and Frank
receive main weight of shells.
NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES—Japanese now hold Samarinda, on E
coast of Dutch Borneo.
US MARINE CORPS
U. S. and Great Britain establish Combined Chiefs of Staff
(CCS).
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