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• USS Preston departed for Ryukyu Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Soviet forces captured Braunsberg near Königsberg in East Prussia, Germany. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• US First Army advanced toward Siegburg, Germany. ww2dbase [Main Article | 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 [Main Article | AC]

• USS Wake Island departed Ulithi, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 53 arrived on board. ww2dbase [Main Article | DS]

• Soviet forces captured Székesfehérvár (German: Stuhlweißenburg), Hungary. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]

• USS Baya fired three torpedoes at a Japanese transport in the South China Sea; all torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Allied convoy JW-65 arrived at the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. ww2dbase [Main Article | 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 [Main Article | Event | CPC]

• USS Carbonero departed New London, Connecticut, United States. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

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