In a mission months in the making, members of the SOE and Cretan resistance kidnapped Heinrich Kreipe.
Originally directed at Gen. Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller as a reprisal for actions committed under his orders, Kreipe had succeeded him by the time the SOE team arrived. Kreipe's kidnapping would cause Müller to return and order mass reprisals, something that had not occurred under Kreipe.
In short, it was a pointless action and poorly thought out, with ultimately tragic results.
Kreipe would be reunited with his kidnappers in a 1972 Greek television program.
In New Guinea, American beachheads at Tanahmerah Bay and Humboldt Bay were linked up. Australian forces took Alexishafen.
The Yoshida Maru No. 1 was sunk by the USS Jack resulting in the loss of 2,669 men.
The U-488 was sunk off of Cape Verde by the U.S. Navy.
The I-180 was sunk off of Chirikof Island by the USS Gilmore.
The Royal Navy, in an effort to attack the Tirpitz which failed due to weather, found a coastal convoy instead and sunk three ships in it.
The POW camp in Hoopeston, Illinois, received its first prisoners.
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