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• HMS Activity was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Activity | CPC]
• Three British Royal Air Force Squadrons (Nos. 71, 121 and 133) were transferred to the United States Army and redesignated as the 334, 335 and 336th Fighter Squadrons. These units had previously been established under British commanding officers with American pilots who, prior to the Pearl Harbor attack, were among the 9,000 Americans who had crossed the border into Canada to volunteer to join the Royal Canadian Air Force at the start of the war in Europe. ww2dbase [AC]
• USS Bailey departed Kodiak bound for the Bering Sea via the Unimak Pass in the Aleutians. ww2dbase [Bailey | DS]
• Destroyer USS Saufley shifted from the Brooklyn Navy Yard to Casco Bay, Maine to begin her shakedown exercises. ww2dbase [Saufley | DS]

• Alpino Bagnolini, detected by a destroyer on the previous date, was subjected to a depth charge attack in the Atlantic Ocean at 0007 hours, sustaining no damage. At 0110 hours, she surfaced, and sighted the destroyer at the range of 800 meters and that the freighter she was escorting was fully illuminated. Faced with being detected by the destroyer at a close range and confused whether the freighter was of a neutral nation, commanding officer Ferdinando Corsi chose to abandon the pursuit, submerge, and escape the area. ww2dbase [Alpino Bagnolini | CPC]

• Repair ship Akashi began repairing escort carrier Taiyo at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Akashi | Truk | CPC]

• Esther Adolphine, sister of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, passed away in Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in occupied Czechoslovakia. ww2dbase [Theresienstadt Concentration Camp | Terezín, Cechy | CPC]

• Max Merten was informed that, as of 1 Oct 1942, he would be the head of the Administrative and Economic Department of the German occupation administration in Thessaloniki, Greece. ww2dbase [Max Merten | Thessaloniki | CPC]

• A lone German bomber attacked the rural town of Petworth in Sussex County, England, United Kingdom in the morning, destroying a boys' school; 23 were killed (20 of whom were children), 30 were seriously injured (24 of whom were children). Somerton, Somerset County; Shrewton, Wiltshire County; and Betteshanger Collthbourne, Kent County were also attacked. ww2dbase [Battle of Britain | England | CPC]

• Seaplane from Japanese submarine I-25 dropped incendiary bombs on a forest in Oregon, United States. No fire was reported. ww2dbase [Japanese Attacks on the Continental United States | Oregon | CPC]
• Japanese submarine I-25 surfaced off Cape Blanco, Oregon in the early morning darkness. Warrant Officer Nobuo Fujita took off in I-25’s Yokosuka E14Y “Glen” floatplane and flew inland from the Cape Blanco lighthouse and dropped two incendiary bombs with minimal results. This was the second and last ever aerial bombardment of the United States mainland. ww2dbase [Nobuo Fujita | Japanese Attacks on the Continental United States | Cape Blanco, Oregon | DS]

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