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• USS Marcus Island disembarked US Navy squadron VC-21 and embarked squadron VC-87. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Cruiser Köln arrived at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Mingo arrived at Fremantle, Australia for repairs, pausing her seventh war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Tunny arrived at Tanapag Harbor, Saipan, Mariana Islands and was moored to submarine tender Fulton for repairs. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Hawkbill sank two Japanese submarine chasers. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Sennet damaged a Japanese patrol boat with her deck gun south of Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Wake Island set sail for Iwo Jima, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Kamikaze made rendezvous with ships of Operation Kita, which brought warships and resources from Singapore to Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]
• British and Canadian troops reached the Rhine River northwest of Duisberg, Germany. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• German Panzerkorps "Großdeutschland" and German 24th Panzer Corps counterattacked near Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), seeing some success against Soviet 4th Tank Army, but the Germans were unable halt the larger Soviet attempt to surround the city. Nearby, Soviet troops captured Groß-Rosen Concentration Camp in Groß-Rosen, Germany (now Rogoznica, Poland). ww2dbase [Main Article | TH, CPC]
• The US coastal minesweeper YMS-48 was sunk by the USS Fletcher north of Corregidor, Philippine Islands, after being damaged by Japanese shore batteries. ww2dbase [AC]
• Oberstleutnant Heinz Bär was appointed as Geschwaderkommodore of III/EJG 2, the Luftwaffe unit tasked with the operational training of pilots for the Messerschmitt Me 262 Jet fighter. ww2dbase [Main Article | AC]

• Ba 349 prototype aircraft M8 flew as a glider with Hans Zübert in the cockpit. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Martial law ended in Greece. ww2dbase [AC]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 85 arrived on board. ww2dbase [Main Article | DS]

• Kiyoshi Ito saw combat against US carrier aircraft over central Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Haddock fired an acoustic seeking torpedo at a small patrol craft south of Japan; the torpedo missed. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Singapore. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• German V-2 rocket hit the Chelmsford-to-London Road near the village of Mountnessing in Essex, England, United Kingdom at 1700 hours. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | CPC]
• German V-2 rocket hit Wormholt Road in Kensington, London, England, United Kingdom about 1 mile west of Sheperds Bush at 2200 hours, killing 29 and injuring 41. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | CPC]

14 Feb 1945 Interactive Map