5 Mar 1945
- Germany began the conscription of 15 to 16-year-old males for service. ww2dbase [TH]
- Lieutenant James Lyle was named the commanding officer of HMS Dianthus. ww2dbase [Dianthus | CPC]
- USS Tunny departed Saipan, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Tunny | CPC]
- The first prototype of Ki-115 Tsuragi special attack aircraft was completed. ww2dbase [Ki-115 Tsurugi | CPC]
- USS Sea Robin tracked an escorted convoy of two cargo ships through out the day; she sank gunboat Manyo Maru with three of three torpedoes fired, cargo ship Shoyu Maru with one of three torpedoes fired, and cargo ship Nagaru Maru with one of seven torpedoes fired. Sea Robin was hunted by Japanese ships and aircraft after the attack but was able to escape. ww2dbase [Sea Robin | CPC]
- Rear Admiral Clifton Sprague commended the "efficiency, smoothness and good judgement" of USS Wake Island and the crew. ww2dbase [Wake Island | CPC]
- Patrols from US First Army reached outskirts of Köln, Germany. ww2dbase [Advance to the Rhine | TH]
- Captain Hidekazu Osuga was named the commanding officer of light carrier Hosho. ww2dbase [Hosho | CPC]
- All Japanese pockets of resistance at Meiktila, Burma were eliminated. ww2dbase [Battle of Meiktila-Mandalay | Meiktila | CPC]
- USS Missouri arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Missouri | Ulithi | CPC]
- USS Shamrock Bay departed Ulithi, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Shamrock Bay | Ulithi | CPC]
- Soviet 19th Army reached the Baltic coast, cutting off German 2.Armee in Pommern, Germany. ww2dbase [East Pomeranian Offensive | Pommern | TH]
- The factory at the HASAG Leipzig slave labour camp near the village of Flösenberg, Germany was destroyed by Allied aircraft. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | HASAG Leipzig | Flösenberg, Bayreuth | CPC]
- USS Sterlet sank a Japanese oiler south of Tokyo Bay, Japan, hitting her with five of six torpedoes. ww2dbase [Sterlet | CPC]
- USS Haddock fired an acoustic seeking torpedo at a small patrol craft 20 miles east of Kyushu, Japan, damaging the craft. ww2dbase [Haddock | Miyazaki | CPC]
- Fortress Graudenz in occupied Poland was captrued by Soviet 2nd Byelorussian Front. At the Oksywie Heights near Gotenhafen, Ostpreußen (East Prussia), Germany (Gdynia, occupied Poland), 30,000 people were evacuated by ships on the previous day and this date. ww2dbase [East Prussian Offensive | Graudenz, Pomorskie | TH]

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