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• USS Croaker departed Fremantle, Australia for her fourth war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• US Third Army crossed Moselle River near Koblenz, Germany. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• Heinrich Himmler signed orders to surrender concentration camps to the Allies, which contradicted Adolf Hitler's prior order. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• 1,108 RAF bombers attacked Dortmund, Germany, dropping 4,851 tons of bombs. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• German Jew Anne Frank died in Belsen Concentration Camp. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Soviet troops captured Küstrin, Germany. ww2dbase [CPC]
• German troops cut off elements of Soviet 5th Guards Army in Silesia, Germany (now Poland) before dawn. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Air Vice-Marshal Harold Lydford was made the commanding officer of British Forces Aden, succeeding Frank McNamara. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Japanese troops launched a counteroffensive aimed at recapturing Meiktila, Burma. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Soviet and Polish troops launched a renewed assault on Kolberg, Germany (now Kolobrzeg, Poland). ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• SS General Ernst Kaltenbrunner agreed to allow Red Cross delegates to visit concentration camps. ww2dbase [Main Article | AC]

• HMS Colossus departed Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Jack Heyn arrived at Omaha, Nebraska, United States. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

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