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• British Second Army captured Celle, Germany. ww2dbase [AC]
• The Soviet 4th Guards Army attacked the canals over the Danube River in Vienna, Ostmark, Germany. Nearby, Soviet 20th Guards Rifle Corps and 1st Mechanized Corps attacked the Reichsbrücke Bridge but failing to take it. After observing the fighting on the front lines in the district of Florisdorf, Otto Skorzeny concluded that Vienna was to fall within a day. ww2dbase [Battle of Vienna | AC]
• USS Missouri, USS Enterprise, USS Essex, and 6 destroyers were damaged by Japanese special attack aircraft off Okinawa, Japan. ww2dbase [Okinawa Campaign | CPC]
• American troops captured an intact V-weapon plant in Nordhausen, Germany; top American leadership soon sent in engineers to remove as much equipment as possible ahead of the arrival of Soviet troops. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Soviet troops reached the Elbe River near Magdeburg, Germany. ww2dbase [CPC]
• A Japanese special attack aircraft crashed into the starboard side of USS Missouri, causing minor damage. The remains of the Japanese pilot was given a sea burial with military honors. ww2dbase [Missouri | CPC]
• USS Parche sank a small Japanese freighter off Japan with her deck gun. ww2dbase [Parche | CPC]
• Harry Dimoline was reverted to the rank of colonel. ww2dbase [Harry Dimoline | CPC]
• HMS Cumberland bombarded targets at Sabang, Sumatra (now Indonesia) during offensive sweep against shipping in Indian Ocean as part of Sunfish. ww2dbase [Cumberland | DS]
• Patrol Boat No. 102 was attached to a convoy sailing toward Jeju, Korea. ww2dbase [Stewart | CPC]

• Anglo-Indian troops captured Pyabwe, Burma at dawn; 2,000 dead Japanese bodies were counted in the region after the fierce battle. To the southwest, mechanized Anglo-Indian troops reached the Taungdwingyi area. ww2dbase [Battle of Rangoon | Pyabwe | CPC]

• Naoto Kohiyama stepped down as the President of the South Manchuria Railway. ww2dbase [CPC]

• US Third Army captured Weimar, Germany and US Seventh Army reached Schweinfurt. ww2dbase [Southern Germany Campaign | AC]
• US Ninth Army captured Bochum, Essen, and Goslar, Germany. ww2dbase [Fall of the Ruhr | AC]
• Prisoners of Buchenwald Concentration Camp freed themselves after most of the guards had fled. In the Buchenwald satellite camp of Langenstein, the US 83rd Infantry Division arrived; it had about 1,100 prisoners at the time. ww2dbase [Buchenwald Concentration Camp | Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Weimar, Thüringen | CPC]
• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against an explosive factory at Krailburg, Germany. ww2dbase [RAF Thurleigh | Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Krailburg | DS]

• New Zealand and Polish troops crossed Santerno River in northern Italy. ww2dbase [Operation Grapeshot and Operation Roast | Emilia-Romagna | CPC]

• I-401 departed Kure, Japan for Dalian, China; she was tasked to bring fuel back to Kure, whose stores were becoming depleted. ww2dbase [I-401 | Kure, Hiroshima | CPC]
• The keel of landing ship No. 164 was laid down by Osaka Zosen; this craft would not be completed. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]
• Landing ship No. 175 was launched. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]
• USS Ancon set sail for Saipan, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Okinawa Campaign | Ancon | Okinawa | CPC]

• USS Gabilan fired four torpedoes at a convoy of small Japanese ships in the South China Sea; all torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Gabilan | South China Sea | CPC]

• The Toroku Prisoners of War Camp in central Taiwan was closed. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Composite Squadron VC-19 came aboard escort carrier USS Bogue as put to sea bound for the New London, Connecticut area for anti-submarine exercises. ww2dbase [Bogue | Norfolk Navy Yard | Norfolk, Virginia | DS]

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