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February 23rd, 1944 (WEDNESDAY)

UNITED KINGDOM: Chelsea, London: Mr. Anthony Smith (1899-1964), Heavy Rescue Service, dug a man out of the basement of a bombed and blazing block, and helped save another in a building next door. (George Cross)

Frigate HMS Loch Shin launched.

Aircraft carrier HMS Vengeance launched.

 

FRANCE: Paris: Maurice Toesca notes the arrest of Jean Genet, the poet and habitual criminal.

GERMANY: A Mosquito of No. 692 Squadron RAF dropped a 4,000-lb bomb on Düsseldorf. This is double the original bombload of the Mk IV. To carry this large device, the bomb-bay is bulged. (22)

U-485 commissioned.

ITALY: General Lucian Truscott takes full command of VI Corps at Anzio, replacing General Lucas.

MARIANAS ISLANDS: Units of the US 5th Fleet attack the Marianas Islands. Including Saipan, Tinian, Rota and Guam.

Glen Boren continues his diary: 
Headed back to Majuro harbor.

CANADA:

Norton-class tugs HMCS Riverton, Mawellton, Clifton ordered.

Yard craft HMC HC 304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309, 310, 311, 312, 313, 314, 315, 316 ordered.

Boom defense vessels HMC HC 288, 289, 294, 295, 299 ordered.

U.S.A.:

Destroyer escort USS Haas laid down.

Destroyer USS Alfred A Cunningham laid down.

Submarine USS Sea Poacher laid down.

Destroyer escort USS Creamer launched.

Destroyer USS Samuel N Moore launched.

Minesweeper USS Gladiator commissioned.

Destroyer USS Richard P Leary commissioned.

Destroyer escort USS Osmus commissioned.

ATLANTIC OCEAN:

U-257 is sunk in the North Atlantic, in approximate position 47.19N, 26.00W, by depth charges from frigates HMCS Waskesiu and HMS Nene. 30 dead and 19 survivors. According to a crewmember on the HMCS Waskesiu the HMS Nene only participated in picking up survivors while the Canadian frigate dropped the depth charges, after both frigates had picked up an ASDIC signal that the Canadians insisted was a U-boat, which sank the boat.

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