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• USS Tirante sank Japanese freighter Nase Maru. ww2dbase [Tirante | CPC]
• General Krebs replaced General Guderian as the head of the German OKH. ww2dbase [TH]
• USS Bailey was designated flagship for the Attack Group Commander for the upcoming assault at Legaspi, Albay Gulf, southeast Luzon, Philippines. Bailey and task group put to sea bound for staging area at Balayan Bay, Luzon. ww2dbase [Bailey | DS]

• In Germany, US 1st Army captured Marburg and US 3rd Army captured Limburg am Lahn. Meanwhile, British 2nd Army began an offensive towards the Elbe River. British sappers built another Rhine bridge, "Blackfriars", by noon. Behind the lines, Dwight Eisenhower transferred US 9th Army from Bernard Montgomery's army group to Omar Bradley's army group as Anglo-American objective shifted toward southern Germany and Czechoslovakia. ww2dbase [Crossing the Rhine | TH, AC]
• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against Berlin, Germany. ww2dbase [RAF Thurleigh | Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Berlin | DS]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: All major units of Construction Battalion have departed this station. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) departed the Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands area for Japanese waters and additional strikes on the home islands. ww2dbase [Yorktown (Essex-class) | Okinawa | DS]
• USS St. Louis conducted a shore bombardment of Okinawa, continuing for the next two days. ww2dbase [St. Louis | Okinawa Campaign | Okinawa | DS]

• Allied bombers mined several harbors in Malaya. ww2dbase [CPC]

• In the area of Laguna Salada in northern Baja California, Mexico, a Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb was shot down by Mexican authorities. ww2dbase [Fu-Go | Laguna Salada, Baja California | DS]

• The US submarine Trigger was depth charged and sunk by Japanese vessels whilst on patrol in the East China Sea. ww2dbase [Trigger | East China Sea | AC]
• USS Boarfish attacked a Japanese patrol vessel in the South China Sea; all 3 torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Boarfish | South China Sea | CPC]

• Destroyer USS Shaw departed Cebu bound for Leyte Gulf, Philippines escorting a convoy of unloaded transport ships. ww2dbase [Shaw | Philippines Campaign, Phase 2 | Cebu City, Cebu | DS]

• Soviet 1st Byelorussian Front captured Gotenhafen (Gdynia), occupied Poland and Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland), yielding 9,000 prisoners of war. ww2dbase [East Pomeranian Offensive | Gdynia, Pomorskie | TH, CPC]

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