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• US Third Army captured Kochem, Germany. ww2dbase [Advance to the Rhine | TH]
• 285 American B-29 bombers attacked the Nagoya, Japan urban area with incendiary bombs. ww2dbase [Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities | CPC]
• Light carrier Hosho departed Oita, Japan for target ship duty for Air Group 252's training. ww2dbase [Hosho | CPC]
• USS Bailey departed the Mindanao area bound for Mindoro, Philippines. ww2dbase [Bailey | DS]

• While at sea, escort carriers USS Card and Bogue detached from Convoy UC-58(B) and change course to Norfolk, Virginia. ww2dbase [Bogue | Card | DS]

• USS Boarfish departed Fremantle, Australia for her second war patrol. ww2dbase [Boarfish | Fremantle, Western Australia | CPC]

• Anglo-Indian troops continued to assault Mandalay Hill near Mandalay, Burma. ww2dbase [Battle of Meiktila-Mandalay | Mandalay | CPC]

• In Operation Tan No. 2, Japanese Navy aircraft conducted a large-scale special attack operation on American warships at Ulithi atoll, Caroline Islands. Closer to the home islands, a P1Y1 Ginga aircraft of 762nd Naval Air Group based in Kanoya, Kagoshima, Japan struck USS Randolph at dusk. ww2dbase [Randolph | Ulithi | CPC]

• Emperor Bao Dai of Nguyen Dynasty Vietnam declared Vietnamese independence from France, with Japanese support. ww2dbase [Bao Dai | Hue, Annam | CPC]
• USAAF B-25 aircraft bombed Japanese shipping off Tourane (now Da Nang), Annam, French Indochina, sinking the small sailing ships Kinsei Maru, Namikiri Maru and Hinode Maru No. 3. ww2dbase [Tourane, Annam | HM]

• Lavrentiy Beria reported to Joseph Stalin that suicides, especially among women, were becoming common in Soviet-occupied East Prussia, Germany. ww2dbase [East Prussian Offensive | CPC]
• Adolf Hitler made a surprise visit to 9th Army headquarters in Saarow between Frankfurt an der Oder and Berlin in Germany. ww2dbase [Adolf Hitler | Saarow, Mark Brandenburg | CPC]
• The 3,059-ton German cargo merchant Cambronne was sunk in the Elbe River with the floating dock where she was undergoing repairs. ww2dbase [HM]
• German submarine U-682, a Type VII-C submarine, was destroyed in an air raid by bombers of US 8th Air Force at 0115 hours at the Howaldswerke Yard in Hamburg, Germany. ww2dbase [Hamburg | HM]
• The 10,750-ton German Navy training ship Hugo Zeye struck a mine and sank in the Baltic Sea on the approaches to Kiel, Germany. Only 5 survived; many military personnel and civilian evacuees from Ostpreußen (East Prussia) were killed. ww2dbase [Schleswig-Holstein | HM]
• U-3061, still under construction, was damaged during an Allied air raid on Bremen, Germany. ww2dbase [U-3061 | Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG | Bremen, Weser-Ems | CPC]
• While under repair at Deutsche Werke shipyard in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Emden suffered damage on the forward deck and port torpedo launchers from Allied aerial incendiary bombs. ww2dbase [Emden | Deutsche Werke Kiel | Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein | CPC]
• H. C. Stülcken Sohn shipyard in Hamburg, Germany was heavily damaged by Allied bombing. ww2dbase [H. C. Stülcken Sohn | Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Hamburg | AG]
• Z43 began shelling Soviet positions near Kolberg, Germany (now KoÅ‚obrzeg, Poland). ww2dbase [East Pomeranian Offensive | Z43 | Kolberg, Pommern | CPC]
• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against the German submarine facilities at Bremen, Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | RAF Thurleigh | Bremen | DS]

• American fighters began flying escort operations from Iwo Jima, Japan. ww2dbase [Battle of Iwo Jima | Iwo Jima | CPC]
• Settsu departed Oita, Japan for target ship duty. ww2dbase [Settsu | CPC]

• Submarine USS Tinosa arrived at Tanapag Harbor, Saipan. ww2dbase [Tinosa | Tanapag Harbor, Saipan | DS]

• USS Segundo sank Japanese cargo ship Shori Maru in the East China Sea off Korea with 2 of 4 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Segundo | East China Sea | CPC]
• USS Springer attempted to attack two Japanese warships in the Pacific Ocean, but was driven off by aircraft. ww2dbase [Springer | CPC]

• Soviet forces moved toward Gotenhafen (Gdynia) occupied Poland, endangering the civilian rescue effort there. ww2dbase [East Pomeranian Offensive | Pomorskie | TH]

• The first unexploded V-2 rocket landed in England, United Kingdom, but it was not retrieved and studied until 7 Apr, by that time other unexploded rockets had been found and many secrets of the rocket had already been uncovered. ww2dbase [Vergeltungswaffe 2 | V-Weapons Campaign | England | CPC]
• Allied convoy JW-65 departed Clyde, Scotland, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Clyde, Scotland | CPC]

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