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History on the 5th of January 1942

History
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05 Jan 1942 WW2 Soviet forces launched general offensives on the Leningrad, Moscow, Ukraine, and Crimea fronts. Joseph Stalin, who had taken command, refused to heed his generals who warned against a broad 1,000-mile long front. 
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05 Jan 1942 WW2 The Soviet attempt to land at Eupatoria (Yevpatoria) was blocked by the Germans. 
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05 Jan 1942 WW2 Georg von Bismarck was assigned as as a staff officer of Panzer Group Africa. 
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05 Jan 1942 WW2 US Navy Bureau of Navigation granted permission for Chief of Bureau of Yards and Docks Rear Admiral Ben Moreell to recruit for a regiment of three construction battalions, soon to be known as "Seabees". 
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05 Jan 1942 WW2 USS Pollack damaged Japanese cargo ship Heijo Maru off Honshu, Japan with three of six torpedoes fired; this was claimed as a sinking. 
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05 Jan 1942 WW2 After sundown, 140 British aircraft attacked the port facilities at Brest, France, dropping 203 tons of high explosive bombs, followed by another wave of 126 aircraft which dropped 186 tons of high explosive bombs and 12,680 incendiary bombs. The primary targets were German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, which suffered little damage. 
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05 Jan 1942 WW2 British submarine HMS Upholder sank Italian submarine Admiral Saint-Bon, with 155 tons of ammunition and gasoline on board, north of Messina, Sicily at 0542 hours; 82 were killed (many during the explosion), 3 survived. 
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05 Jan 1942 WW2 Italian convoy M.43 arrived at Tripoli, Libya, delivering 54 tanks, armored cars, artillery, ammunition, and fuel. 
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05 Jan 1942 WW2 British submarine HMS Proteus sank Italian troop transport Citta Di Palermo 73 miles northwest of Patras, Greece at 0800 hours, killing most of the 600 aboard. 
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05 Jan 1942 WW2 Japanese troops launched probing attacks at the defenses manned by Indian troops at Trolak, British Malaya; 60 Japanese were killed without achieving success. 
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05 Jan 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-56 sank British freighter Kwantung 60 miles south of Java, Dutch East Indies. 133 survived the sinking, but only 35 would ultimately be rescued; most of those died after the sinking were killed by Japanese ramming and machinegunning. 
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05 Jan 1942 WW2 George Brett was named the commanding officer of all US forces in Australia. 
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05 Jan 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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05 Jan 1942 WW2 Vice Admiral Hidehiko Ukita stepped down as the commanding officer of the Ryojun Guard District (previously known as Port Arthur; now Lushunkou, Liaoning Province, China), Kwantung Leased Territory in northeastern China. 
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05 Jan 1942 WW2 Four prisoners of war, two Dutch and two British, successfully escaped the Oflag IV-C camp at Colditz Castle in Germany by dressing up as German guards. Lieutenant Airey Neave, one of the escapees among the four, became the first British to escape from Colditz. 
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05 Jan 1942 WW2 Archibald Wavell departed India. 
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05 Jan 1942 WW2 Akagi departed with the Carrier Striking Force (Carrier Divisions 1 and 5) from Hashirajima for Iwakuni, Japan. 
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05 Jan 1942 WW2 Shokaku departed Kure, Japan for Hiroshima Bay. 
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05 Jan 1942 WW2 US and Filipino troops in the Philippine Islands were put on half rations. 
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05 Jan 1942 WW2 Benjamin Kelsey was promoted to the war time rank of lieutenant colonel. 
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