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- US 3rd Armored Division used M26 Pershing heavy tanks in combat for the first time near the Roer River in the Belgian-German border region. ww2dbase [M26 Pershing/M46 | CPC]
- Omar Bradley gave George Patton the authority to make advances toward the Rhine River. ww2dbase [Advance to the Rhine | CPC]
- The keel of U-3060 was laid down on Building Ways IV at the Deschimag shipyard in Bremen, Germany. ww2dbase [Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG | U-3060 | Bremen, Weser-Ems | CPC]
- Fighter quadron VF-80 from USS Hancock flew one fighter sweep against Tokyo, Japan; no aircraft were lost. ww2dbase [Hancock | Tokyo | DS]
- USS Wisconsin escorted carriers as the carrier aircraft attacked Hachino, Japan. ww2dbase [Wisconsin | CPC]
- USS Yorktown (Essex-class) launched raids to bomb and strafe airfields in the vicinity of Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Battle of Iwo Jima | Yorktown (Essex-class) | Tokyo | DS]
- Minoru Ota was made the commanding officer of Okinawa Area Auxiliary Base Force. ww2dbase [Minoru Ota | Okinawa | CPC]
- USS Hoe sank Japanese convoy escort ship Shonan with 1 of 4 torpedoes fired from periscope depth in the South China Sea. ww2dbase [Hoe | South China Sea | CPC]
- US aircraft attacked neutral Portuguese Macau. ww2dbase [CPC]
- The former German ship F7, now in Soviet service, was renamed Buran. ww2dbase [F7 | CPC]
- USS Alabama exited a drydock at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, United States. ww2dbase [Puget Sound Navy Yard | Alabama | Bremerton, Washington | CPC]




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