19 January 1942, Seven US airmen set up the VIII Bomber Command at RAF Daws Hill in Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom. US Secretary of War Henry Stimson formally asked Chiang Kaishek to approve a US commander for Chinese troops fighting in Burma; Chiang agreed, albeit with ambiguous language. German submarine U-66 sank Canadian ship Lady Hawkins 150 miles off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, United States at 0743 hours; 251 were killed, 71 survived. On the same day, German submarine U-123 sank US ship City of Atlanta (43 were killed, 3 survived) and US ship Norvana in the same general area, killing 43 of 46 aboard; US tanker Malay was damaged in the same attack. USS Astoria and USS Pensacola departed Pearl Harbor. Dispersed ships of Allied convoy QP-5 began to arrive in Allied waters. The US 2nd Marine Brigade (detached from 2nd Marine division) with 8th Marines arrived in American Samoa. The headquarters of the Indian 45th Brigade in Malaya was destroyed by a Japanese air raid at 1000 hours, wounding General Duncan and killing all of his staff officers. Elsewhere in British Malaya, Australian 8th Division withdrew from Gemas to prevent being cut off by a Japanese flanking maneuver. Japanese troops landed at Sandakan, British North Borneo unopposed at 0700 hours.
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 16:06:59 +0000
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