Chinese forces, while under assault elsewhere in China, crossed the Salween River near the Burmese border in an offensive.
The Japanese destroyer Karukaya was sunk in the South China Sea by the USS Silversides.
Soviet General Aleksandr Vasilevsky was wounded in the head at Sevastopol when his car drove over a mine. He recovered and later served again in high command, and went on to be Stalin's post-war Minister of War, a position he lost with Stalin's death. He died in 1977.
A series of Merchant Marine medals were established, recognizing their very dangerous service in various theaters.
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