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• After breaking through near Stargard, Soviet 1st Byelorussian Front heads toward Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland). ww2dbase [TH]
• German troops encircled the spearhead of Soviet 3rd Guards Tank Army in Silesia, Germany (now Poland) during Operation Gemse. ww2dbase [Silesian Offensive and the Siege of Breslau | CPC]
• USS Nicholas departed Subic Bay, Luzon bound for Mangarin Bay, Mindoro, Philippines. ww2dbase [Nicholas | DS]

• Rifleman Bhanbhagta Gurung won the Victoria Cross for advancing alone to clear Japanese positions near Mandalay, Burma ahead of General Slim's British 14th Army. ww2dbase [Mandalay | AC]

• USS Hancock arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands; Air Group 6 relieved Air Group 80. ww2dbase [Hancock | Albert O. Vorse, Jr. | Ulithi | DS]
• USS Wasp arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Wasp (Essex-class) | Ulithi | CPC]

• Soviet and Polish troops attacked Kolberg, Germany (now Kolobrzeg, Poland). ww2dbase [East Pomeranian Offensive | Kolberg | CPC]
• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against an ordnance depot at Ulm, Germany. ww2dbase [RAF Thurleigh | Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Ulm | DS]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Single day maximum of arrested landings (69). ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]
• USS St. Louis departed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii bound for Ulithi, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [St. Louis | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]

• 159 American B-29 bombers attacked the urban areas of Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities | Tokyo | CPC]

• USS Baya fired six torpedoes at a Japanese convoy in the South China Sea, hitting a transport and an oil with 2 torpedoes each and sinking both. ww2dbase [Baya | South China Sea | CPC]

• USS Marcus Island began a 4-day period of training in Leyte Gulf, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Marcus Island | CPC]
• Destroyer USS Shaw departed Palawan bound for Leyte Gulf, Philippines escorting a convoy of unloaded transport ships. ww2dbase [Philippines Campaign, Phase 2 | Shaw | Puerto Princesa, Palawan | DS]

• Allied bombers attacked Basel and Zürich by mistake. ww2dbase [CPC]

• The last Luftwaffe aircraft to crash on British soil was a Ju 88G-6 of 12/Nachtjagdgesswader 3 flown by Hauptmann Johann Dreher, an experienced former bomber pilot who had already been awarded the Knight's Cross medal. Having attacked a Halifax aircraft trying to land at Elvington near York, Dreher spotted a car on a road alongside the airfield. As he came in low, his aircraft clipped a tree and cart-wheeled into Dunnington Lodge at 0145 hours, badly injuring Ellen Moll (aged 61) and her daughter-in-law Violet (28) both of who died later that day in York County Hospital. All four members of the German aircraft were killed. ww2dbase [Battle of Britain | Elvington, England | AC]

• The United States adopted a policy of carpet bombing Japanese cities as opposed to precision strikes. ww2dbase [Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities | AC]

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