New Guinea
Japanese 18th Army makes last stand at village of Numbogua; General Adachi orders his troops ‘to die in honourable defeat’.
Sea War
Pacific: TF 37 and TF 38 planes sink 11 ships in Kobe, Nagoya and Maizuru harbors.
Japanese 18th Army makes last stand at village of Numbogua; General Adachi orders his troops ‘to die in honourable defeat’.
Pacific: TF 37 and TF 38 planes sink 11 ships in Kobe, Nagoya and Maizuru harbors.