18 Feb 1945




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- USS Caiman departed Fremantle, Australia for her second war patrol. ww2dbase [Caiman | CPC]
- Soviet troops encircled Graudenz, East Prussia, Germany (now Grudziadz, Poland). ww2dbase [East Prussian Offensive | TH]
- USS Guitarro sank a Japanese transport, hitting her with all of the three torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Guitarro | CPC]
- Dmitry Karbyshev passed away from hypothermia in Mauthausen Concentration Camp in occupied Austria. ww2dbase [Dmitry Karbyshev | Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp | Mauthausen, Oberdonau | CPC]
- The German Operation Sonnenwende offensive in Pommern, Germany was halted by Soviet resistance. ww2dbase [East Pomeranian Offensive | Pommern | TH]
- Folke Bernadotte met Heinrich Himmler at the SS Hohenlychen sanatorium in Lychen, Germany to discuss the release of Scandinavian Jews from concentration camps and Germany's separate peace with the Western Allies. They would not reach any agreement. ww2dbase [Folke Bernadotte | Lychen, Mark Brandenburg | CPC]
- USS Yorktown (Essex-class) bombed and strafed installations on Chichi Jima, Bonin Islands ww2dbase [Battle of Iwo Jima | Yorktown (Essex-class) | Chichi Jima, Bonin Islands | DS]
- UIT-24 arrived in Kobe, Japan and began receiving repairs. ww2dbase [Comandante Cappellini | Kobe, Hyogo | CPC]
- Submarines USS Thresher, USS Peto, and USS Shad arrived in their patrol area of the Luzon Strait. ww2dbase [Shad | Thresher | Peto | Luzon Strait | DS]
- Ivan Serov, head counterintelligence chief of Soviet 1st Byelorussian Front, ordered every German in Poland to be arrested. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Semyon Timoshenko was awarded the Order of Lenin for the third time. ww2dbase [Semyon Timoshenko | CPC]




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