The USS Missouri was launched. The long serving ship is now a Museum Ship in Pearl Harbor.
USS Missouri, Pearl Harbor Hawaii
While occasionally taken out of service, she's serve all the way through 1998 in various recalls.
The massive battleship was far larger than the pre-war US battleships.
The Battle of the Green Islands began when American and New Zealand reconnaissance forces landed on the islands, which are located between Bougainville and New Ireland. They'd only remain for 24 hours and then withdraw, with larger operations to begin on February 5.
In the Marshalls, US Task Force 58 bombed and shells Japanese targets on Roi, Namur, Maloelap and Wotje. Land-based aircraft bomb Jaluit and Mille.
The Red Army captured Chudovo.
Soviet Partisans killed 38 civilians in German occupied Koniuchy, Lithuania.
The HMS Spartan was sunk off of Anzio by a Hs 293.
The U-364 was sunk in the Ba of Biscay by an RAF Halifax.
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