US NAVY
ATLANTIC—Dutch tanker Ocana is torpedoed and sunk by
German submarine U-552 at 42°36'N, 64°25'W; destroyer Mayo (DD-422)
rescues four survivors.
US ARMY AIR FORCE
EIGHTH AF—Maj Cecil P Lessig becomes first Eighth AF pilot
to fly a mission over France in World War II. Flying a Spitfire with RAF 64 Squadron,
Lessig participates in a 36-aircraft fighter sweep that is recalled when 50 fighters
challenge them.
US ARMY
SOCIETY ISLANDS—162d Infantry,
U.S. 41st Division, arrives at Bora Bora.
BURMA—Chinese 200th Division is virtually besieged in Toungoo.
Elements of T-55th Division arrive N of the town but do not attack. Burma I
Corps is ordered to concentrate in Prome-Allanmyo area.
US MARINE CORPS
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