February 12th, 1943 (FRIDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: Submarine USS Shad ends her second war patrol at Roseneath, Scotland.
Destroyer HMS Brissenden commissioned.
GERMANY: Dachau: Dr Sigismund Rascher reports that his experiments on prisoners have proved that sexual intercourse can speed the return of warmth to men who have been chilled in ice-water.
U-1008 laid down.
U.S.S.R.: Polar Fleet and White Sea Flotilla: Submarine "K-3" sunk by surface ASW ships, close to cape Nordkin. (Sergey Anisimov)(69)
Soviet troops recapture Krasnodar, in the Kuban.
TUNISIA: In driving rain, the 7th Armoured Division crossed the Tunisian border in force today, leaving the whole of Libya in Allied hands. With Rommel regrouping his Panzerarmee Afrika on the French built Mareth Line, the next great battles can be expected shortly. General Montgomery is biding his time, re-equipping the 8th Army with supplies and weapons which are arriving in the newly-cleared harbour at Tripoli, Libya by the shipload. His first objectives are Medenine and Ben Gardane - both with valuable airstrips.
U.S.A.: Roosevelt makes a speech about his recent conference with Churchill at Casablanca.
USS PC-787 launched.
USS SC-1288 commissioned.
Submarine USS Mingo commissioned.
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