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** Task Force 38 carrier aircraft attack Japanese forces and facilities on Luzon, claiming 14 Japanese aircraft destroyed in the air and 18 on the ground in exchange for the loss of 17 U. S. aircraft, but bad weather prevents them from employing the " Big Blue Blanket " tactic of maintaining continuous coverage over Japanese airfields to prevent Japanese aircraft from attacking the U. S. invasion force in Lingayen Gulf.
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** A Russian brigade, initially under the command of Colonel Aleksandr Ivanovich Lentsov, was part of the Task Force Eagle effort.
** The 12 aircraft carriers of Task Force 58 — the Fast Carrier Forces, United States Pacific Fleet — begin operations to destroy Japanese airpower in the Marshall Islands prior to the American invasion of the islands ; it is the first time that the American Fast Carrier Forces are used in this way.
** Task Force 58 aircraft attack a Japanese convoy off Kwajalein Atoll and bomb Kwajalein Island, Roi-Namur, Maloelap, and Wotje.
** U. S. Navy Task Force 58 completes its support of ground operations on Kwajalein Island and Roi-Namur.
** Supporting American operations in the Marshall Islands, carrier aircraft of U. S. Navy Task Force 58 since January 29 have flown 6, 232 sorties and dropped 1, 156. 6 tons ( 1, 049, 261 kg ) of bombs, losing 22 aircraft in combat and 27 to other causes.
** In Operation Hailstone, carrier aircraft of U. S. Navy Task Force 58 begin two days of strikes against Truk Atoll, Japans main base in the South Pacific Ocean ; they are the first carrier strikes against Truk.
** Task Force 58 aircraft complete their two days of strikes against Truk, starting in the early morning hours with the first carrier-based night bombing attack in U. S. Navy history, a raid by 12 TBF-1C Avengers, which demonstrates the value of such raids by scoring 13 direct bomb hits and seven near misses on Japanese ships in the harbor.
** Task Force 38 carrier aircraft strike Japanese targets at Formosa and Miyako-jima in foul weather, flying 717 sorties and dropping 212 tons ( 192, 325 kg ) of bombs.
** and Force
** Land Force Command-Land Force Command is the operational organisation of the RFMF, and is responsible for all of the main units:
** Veterans Day, called Armistice Day until 1954, when the holiday was rededicated to be in honor all American military, naval, and Air Force, veterans.
** Millennium Force opens at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio as the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster.
** The " Great Escape " – 76 Royal Air Force prisoners escape by tunnel " Harry " from Stalag Luft III this night.
** The only flight of the German ramming unit known as the Sonderkommando Elbe takes place, resulting in the loss of some 24 B-17s and B-24s of the United States Eighth Air Force.
** Establishment of United States VIII Bomber Command, later to become the Eighth Air Force, in Savannah, Georgia.
** US Eighth Air Force inauspiciously flies its first mission in Europe using borrowed British planes and bombs targets in the Netherlands, such as De Kooy airfield attached to Den Helder naval base.
** The Memphis Belle's crew becomes the first aircrew in the 8th Air Force to complete its 25-mission tour of duty.
** Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol under the authority of the United States Army Air Force.
** Mrkonjić Grad incident: A United States Air Force F-16 piloted by Captain Scott O ' Grady is shot down over Bosnia and Herzegovina while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone.
** Cold War: Soviet Air Force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate, on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan, and requests political asylum in the United States.
** Cold War: A Soviet Air Force MiG-19 fighter plane flying north of Murmansk, Russia, over the Barents Sea shoots down a six-man RB-47 Stratojet reconnaissance plane of the U. S. Air Force.
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