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 * 1862 - The first female nurses to serve on a U.S. Navy ship report on board hospital ship Red Rover. They are nuns from the Catholic order Sisters of the Holy Cross.
 * 1872 - While serving on the side-wheel steamer Powhatan at Norfolk, Va., Seaman Joseph Noil saves drowning shipmate, Boatswain J.C. Walton. For his conduct on this occasion, he is awarded the Medal of Honor.
 * 1942 - SBDs, F4Fs, and P-38s attack Japanese transports at Wickham Anchorage, New Georgia and sink the freighters Takashima Maru and Iwami Maru.
 * 1943 - USS Fanning (DD 385) sinks the Japanese auxiliary submarine chaser No.7 Myo Maru off Okino Misaki, Bonin Islands.
 * 1943 - Operation Backhander begins. Task Force 76 lands 1st Marine Division at Cape Cloucester, New Britain. During retaliatory Japanese air attacks, destroyer USS Brownson (DD 518) sinks while destroyers USS Lamson (DD 367), USS Shaw (DD 373) and USS Mugford (DD 389), along with USS LST 66 and coastal transport APC 15 are damaged.
 * 1944 - Harriet Ida Pickens and Frances F. Wills are commissioned as the first two African-American WAVES officers.

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