M5 Stuart of the 1st Marine Division, Cape Goucester, January 16, 1944.
Cape Gloucester was officially secured, although mopping up operations would continue into April.
Dwight D. Eisenhower formally assumed the duties of the Commander in Chief of the Allied Expeditionary Forces, although he had been acting in that capacity for some time.
The Red Army broke through German defenses north of Velikiye Luki.
Today in World War II History—January 16, 1944: Lt. Stewart Graham of the US Coast Guard becomes the first person to make a helicopter takeoff and landing aboard a ship underway—in a Sikorsky HNS-1
Sarah Sundin.
The renaming
1944. Rev. Francis Penny was appointed pastor of St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Cody but he resided at St. Barbara's in Powell where he was administrator in the absence of Rev. Fred Kimmett. Rev. Kimmett was serving as Chaplain in the U.S. Armed Services.
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Amazingly, she is still afloat as a museum ship. renamed once again, this time as the ROKS Wi Bong, reflecting her transfer to the Republic of Korea in 1958. Having served in World War Two, she served again in the Vietnam War in the Korean Navy. The naming of the ship after Johnson County occured in 1955.
The Japanese submarine I-181 ran aground on Gneisenau Point at Kelanoa Harbour, New Guinea.
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The U-544 was sunk in the Atlantic by rockets and depth charges from Grumman TBF Avenger planes from the escort carrier USS Guadalcanal.
SBD’s on a combat mission off New Georgia Island in the Solomon Islands, January 16, 1944.
1944. Rev. Francis Penny was appointed pastor of St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Cody but he resided at St. Barbara's in Powell where he was administrator in the absence of Rev. Fred Kimmett. Rev. Kimmett was serving as Chaplain in the U.S. Armed Services.
The Sears Roebuck in Madison Wisconsin caught on fire.
