21 Mar 1945




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- Soviet forces captured Braunsberg near Königsberg in East Prussia, Germany. ww2dbase [East Prussian Offensive | TH]
- US First Army advanced toward Siegburg, Germany. ww2dbase [Advance to the Rhine | TH]
- The Japanese made the first operational sortie with the Yokosuka Ohka (Cherry Blossom) suicide aircraft. The sixteen Mitsubishi G4M2e bombers of 321st Squadron launched aircraft were intercepted short of their target and were forced to jettison their piloted weapons. ww2dbase [MXY7 Ohka | AC]
- USS Preston departed for Ryukyu Islands. ww2dbase [Preston (Fletcher-class) | CPC]
- USS Wake Island departed Ulithi, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Wake Island | Ulithi | CPC]
- Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 53 arrived on board. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]
- Soviet forces captured Székesfehérvár (German: Stuhlweißenburg), Hungary. ww2dbase [Budapest Strategic Offensive Operation | Székesfehérvár | TH]
- USS Baya fired three torpedoes at a Japanese transport in the South China Sea; all torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Baya | South China Sea | CPC]
- USS Kimberly departed San Pedro Bay, Philippine Islands for radar picket duty. ww2dbase [Philippines Campaign, Phase 2 | Kimberly | San Pedro Bay | CPC]
- Allied convoy JW-65 arrived at the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Murmansk | CPC]
- German V-2 rocket hit the Packard factory in London, England, United Kingdom at 0939 hours, destroying it and damaging 13 factories and 662 houses; it killed 32, seriously injured 100, and lightly injured 460. Another rocket hit Primrose Hill in St Pancras (though officially listed as in Hampstead), London, damaging the reservoir and injuring 14 people. ww2dbase [V-Weapons Campaign | Vergeltungswaffe 2 | London, England | CPC]
- USS Carbonero departed New London, Connecticut, United States. ww2dbase [Carbonero | New London, Connecticut | CPC]




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