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• British and Canadian troops forced their way through a main Siegfried Line/Westwall defensive zone. Meanwhile, half of German 19.Armee was evacuated back into Germany before the final Rhine River bridge in the Colmar Pocket in France was blown. ww2dbase [Advance to the Rhine | TH]
• Elbing and Posen in Germany (now Elblag and Poznan in Poland) were surrounded by the Soviet forces. ww2dbase [TH]
• In a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat, British HMS Venturer sank German U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Between this date and 12 Feb 1945, US submarine Batfish sank three Japanese destroyers. ww2dbase [Batfish | CPC]

• The paper envelope and shroud lines of a Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb were found near Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada. ww2dbase [Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan | DS]
• The paper envelope and shroud lines of a Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb were found near Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada. ww2dbase [Fu-Go | Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan | DS]

• Soviet submarine S-13 attacked German passenger ship Steuben just off the coast near Stolp, Germany (now Slupsk, Poland) just before the end of the day, fatally hitting her with two torpedoes on the starboard side. ww2dbase [Alexander Marinesko | East Prussian Offensive | Pommern | CPC]
• German engineers blew up the dam over the Ruhr, thereby presenting the US Ninth Army with an unbridgeable strip of surging water. This led to the attack from the south being postponed and the waters would not subside sufficiently for General William Simpson's leading troops to resume their advance until 23 Feb 1945. ww2dbase [Fall of the Ruhr | AC]
• Otto Wünsche arrived in Germany and disembarked German servicemen who had been in Latvia at the end of the war. ww2dbase [Otto Wünsche | CPC]
• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against the oil refinery at Lützkendorf, Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | RAF Thurleigh | Lützkendorf | DS]

• Patrol Boat No. 102 entered Drydock No. 4 at Kure, Hiroshima, Japan. ww2dbase [Kure Naval Arsenal | Stewart | Kure, Hiroshima | CPC]

• Soviet Captain Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was arrested for his private criticism of Joseph Stalin; he would eventually be sentenced to 8 years imprisonment at labor camps for this crime. ww2dbase [CPC]

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