January 24th, 1943 (MONDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: Minesweeper HMS Gorgon and Grecian launched.
ARCTIC SEA: U-625 fired four torpedoes at convoy escorts HMS Kent and Bermuda, but all missed.
SOLOMON ISLANDS: Admiral Ainsworth leads a US naval taskforce into the Kula Gulf to bombard a Japanese airfield site on Kolombangara north of Guadalcanal. Cruisers Honolulu, St. Louis, Nashville, Helena and destroyers Nicholas, DeHaven, Radford and O'Bannon are involved.
Later in the day, aircraft of Carrier Air Group Six (CVG-6) in the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3), Douglas SBD Dauntlesses of Bombing Squadron Six (VB-6), Grumman F4F Wildcats of Fighting Squadron Six (VF-6) and Grumman TBF Avengers of Torpedo Squadron Six (VT-6), bomb the same objectives.
U.S.A.: Wyoming: A local lecture is given on how to render fat from a skunk without the smell. (Pat Holscher)
Submarines USS Raton and Pargo launched.
Destroyer escorts USS Douglas L Howard and Frederick C Davis launched.
CARIBBEAN SEA: Drifting wreck of tanker British Vigilance sunk by U-105.