A Chinook wind caused an increase in temperature in Spearfish, South Dakota, in which the temperature went from -4F to 45F in two minutes. It ultimately went up to 54F over two hours, then dropped back below 0 in 30 minutes, all of this in a single morning.
Papua was liberated from the Japanese, becoming the first territory they had captured from which they'd been completely expelled.
Japan's losses on the island were 13,000 in number, compared to 2,000 for Australia and 600 for the United States.
On the same day, the British 8th Army took Tripoli.
According to many sources, today, not yesterday, was the date on which the Germans lost their last airfield at Stalingrad.
French police and German forces began the Marseilles Roundup, the gathering and deportation of the city's Jewish population. The action would result in the deportation of 1,642 people, the displacement of 20,000 and the arrest of 6,000. The Old Port district was destroyed.
Margaret Bourke-White flew in a U.S. bombing mission over Tunis in the B-17 Little Bill. The photographer and reporter was the first woman to do so.
Bourke-White was already a famous photographer by that time, having photographed extensively during the Great Depression and having photographed the Soviet Union prior to World War Two. She died at age 67 in 1971 of Parkinson's Disease.
Franklin Roosevelt dined with Moroccan Sultan Mohammed V, during which he expressed sympathy for post-war Moroccan independence.
Roosevelt was always solidly anti-colonial, a fact that became an increasing problem for the British as the war went on and which would impact the immediate post war world.
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