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- USS Wake Island was detached from Task Group 52.2 at Iwo Jima, Japan. ww2dbase [Wake Island | CPC]
- Soviet 6th Army captured three suburban districts of Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland). ww2dbase [Silesian Offensive and the Siege of Breslau | CPC]
- Air Group 80 from USS Hancock flew one strike in support of operations on Iwo Jima; 1 aircraft was lost. ww2dbase [Hancock | DS]
- The French collaborator Jacques Doriot, a former Communist politician who had converted to fascism and had fought in the German Wehrmacht on the eastern front, was killed when the car in which he was travelling from Mainau to Sigmaringen in southern Germany was strafed by Allied fighter planes. ww2dbase [AC]
- U-3042, still under construction, was seriously damaged during an Allied air raid on Bremen, Germany, leading to her not becoming completed. ww2dbase [Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG | U-3042 | Bremen, Weser-Ems | CPC]
- US 5th Army ended the 4-day battle for the Upper Reno Valley in Italy, located between Bologna and Florence. ww2dbase [Battle of Monte Castello | Monte Castello, Emilia-Romagna | TH]
- USS Astoria provided naval gunfire support at Iwo Jima, Japan. ww2dbase [Astoria (Cleveland-class) | Iwo Jima | CPC]
- The keel of landing ship No. 176 was laid down by Kawanami Kogyo. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]
- USS Becuna fired ten torpedoes at a Japanese convoy in the South China Sea, with one torpedo making contact and sinking Japanese tanker Nichiyoko Maru. ww2dbase [Becuna | South China Sea | CPC]
- Destroyer USS Shaw arrived at Mangarin Bay, Mindoro, Philippines. ww2dbase [Shaw | Mangarin, Mindoro | DS]
- Kamikaze arrived at Singapore. ww2dbase [Kamikaze | Singapore | CPC]
- Kamoi arrived at Singapore. ww2dbase [Kamoi | Singapore | CPC]
- Escort carriers USS Card and Bogue arrived at Liverpool, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Bogue | Card | Liverpool, England | DS]




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