| 23 January 1942
RAF reconnaissance aircraft locate the battleship Tirpitz in Aasfjord, near Trondheim.
Japanese troops occupied Rabaul, New Britain, and Kavieng, New Ireland.
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On weald of Kent I watched once more
Again I heard that grumbling roar
Of fighter planes; yet none were near
And all around the sky was clear
Borne on the wind a whisper came
'Though men grow old, they stay the same'
And then I knew, unseen to eye
The ageless Few were sweeping by
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