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• 1944 - Sue Sophia Dauser, Superintendent of the Navy's Nurse Corps, is the first woman in the Navy to receive rank of captain.
• 1945 - TBMs from USS Anzio sink two Japanese submarines: I 368, 35 miles west of Iwo Jima, and RO 43, 50 miles west-northwest of Iwo Jima.
• 1945 - USS Finnegan sinks Japanese submarine I 370, 120 miles south of Iwo Jima.
• 1991 - During Operation Desert Storm, A-6E aircraft of VA-155 from USS Ranger and Marine aircraft bomb Iraqi troops fleeing Kuwait City to Basra.

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  Sue Sophia Dauser is prompted to captain and is the first female in the Navy to receive this rank.

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