27 Feb 1945
- USS Hoe fired 2 torpedoes at periscope depth at a Japanese freighter; both torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Hoe | CPC]
- Admiral Louis Mountbatten, on the advice of Colonel Colin Mackenzie (Head of Force 136) and Colonel John G. Coughlin (Head of OSS at SEAC) overruled General Oliver Leese's announcement that the Burmese Anti-Fascist Organisation (which included Communists) would not be armed or employed, since it was felt, at SEAC, that the Allied armies would need all the help they could get from the Burmese Nationalists during the drive on Rangoon. ww2dbase [Louis Mountbatten | AC]
- Friedrich HĂĽffmeier was made the military governor of the Channel Islands, succeeding Rudolf von Schmettow. ww2dbase [CPC]
- The 6,501-ton US freighter Nashaba, from Southend, England, United Kingdom bound for Ghent, Belgium, was separated from convoy TAM 91 after the convoy ran into a force 8 gale. She struck a mine in the Schelde Estuary and sank. One crewman was killed in the explosion. The convoy was scattered in a force 8 gale that hit the North Sea. ww2dbase [Schelde Estuary | HM]
- Lebanon declared Independence from France and declared war on Germany and Japan. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Z43 escorted ocean liner SS Hamburg to Sassnitz on the Jasmund peninsula on RĂĽgen Island, Germany. ww2dbase [Z43 | East Pomeranian Offensive | Sassnitz, Pommern | CPC]
- Soviet troops captured Baldenburg (now Bialy BĂłr, Poland) and Neustettin (now Szczecinek, Poland) in Pommern, Germany. ww2dbase [East Pomeranian Offensive | Pommern | CPC]
- The rocket-boosted Messerschmitt Me.262C-1a made its maiden flight. Fitted with a Walter HWK rocket motor in the tail this machine, in trials, attained an altitude of 38,400 feet from a standing start in under 4.5 minutes. ww2dbase [Me 262 Schwalbe | AC]
- USS Sunfish arrived at Apra, Guam, Mariana Islands, ending her tenth war patrol. ww2dbase [Sunfish (Gato-class) | Apra | CPC]
- USS Corregidor departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Corregidor | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
- Lieutenant General Millard F. Harmon, Commanding General, USAAF Air Forces, Pacific Area, arrived at Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, refueled, and took off for Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii. The C-87 transport aircraft would never be seen again. An extensive coordinated search by all services ensued for the next 20 days but failed to locate any trace of the missing plane or its passengers. Brigadier General James Roy Andersen was also lost in this accident the aircraft. ww2dbase [Kwajalein | HM]
- King Mihai I of Romania appointed a Communist government. ww2dbase [TH]
- Soviet Deputy Commissar for Foreign Affairs Andrei Vyshinsky, sent to Bucharest, Romania by Joseph Stalin, forced King Mihai I to appoint Petru Groza as the new prime minister. ww2dbase [Mihai I | Bucharest | CPC]
- German V-2 rocket hit the Royal Albert Dock in London, England, United Kingdom in the morning. ww2dbase [Vergeltungswaffe 2 | V-Weapons Campaign | London, England | CPC]
- Franklin Roosevelt arrived in Newport News, Virginia, United States via USS Quincy. ww2dbase [Franklin Roosevelt | Newport News, Virginia | CPC]

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