Where did the dates column come from ?
My guess is that you got it from an external source and they are all in fact in the format dd/mm/yyyy and your Region / default format it set to mm/dd/yyyy.
Your format is accepting anything with a number in the month position < 13 and treating it as date (but with the month and day reversed) and > 13s are treated as text.
If it is a one off and you want the date in the text output to be formatted as mm/dd/yyyy then
select the data in column G
go data > text to columns
in the screen below select Date and the format in which the date came to you which I believe is dd/mm/yyyy.
Make the destination where the data is currently. (copy it back on to itself)
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