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• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Saipan. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | CPC]
• The Emsland concentration camps in Germany established the Kommandos Nord (Department North), which began to construct concentration camps in Norway north of the Arctic Circle; 1,404 prisoners were transferred there when completed. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
• Australian troops captured Madang, New Guinea. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | CPC]
• Anglo-Indian troops attacked Ningthoukhong, India. ww2dbase [Battle of Imphal-Kohima | CPC]
• USS Bailey joined an anti-submarine hunter-killer group centered around escort carrier USS Kalinin Bay. The group departed Majuro for anti-submarine patrols around Maloelap Atoll, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Bailey | DS]
• USS Nicholas arrived at Buna, New Guinea. ww2dbase [Nicholas | DS]

• Captain Charles E. Coney relieved Captain Herman A. Spanagel as the commanding officer of the cruiser USS Nashville. ww2dbase [Nashville | Seeadler Harbor, Manus, Admiralty Islands | DS]

• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against aircraft facilities at Nancy, France but could not drop their bombs because a lower flying squadron flew under them at the drop zone. ww2dbase [Bombing of Cities in France and Low Countries | RAF Thurleigh | Nancy | DS]

• Adolf Hitler made his last major public appearance at Hans-Valentin Hube's funeral in Berlin, Germany. ww2dbase [Adolf Hitler | Berlin | TH]

• Landing ship No. 106 was launched. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]

• While transiting from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii to Alameda, California, a sailor on Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Sargent Bay was washed overboard during a storm at sea. An hour-long search revealed nothing. ww2dbase [Sargent Bay | DS]

• Kamoi entered dock No. 1 at Singapore for repairs. ww2dbase [Kamoi | Singapore | CPC]

• George Patton was at a welcome club in Knutsford, England, United Kingdom as the guest of honor. Learning that his visit was supposed to be unofficial, he freely spoke of a post-war world in which the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union would together rule the world. A reporter carelessly missed writing down the Soviet Union, thus when the story was published several days later, it appeared as if Patton was disrespecting the Soviet Union. ww2dbase [George Patton | Knutsford, England | CPC]
• American forces conducted marshalling and embarkation drills at Slapton, Devonshire, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Exercise Tiger | Slapton, England | CPC]

• USS Mississippi arrived at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard for an overhaul. ww2dbase [Puget Sound Navy Yard | Mississippi | Bremerton, Washington | DS]
• USS Skipjack arrived at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California ww2dbase [Mare Island Navy Yard | Skipjack | Vallejo, California | DS]

25 Apr 1944 Interactive Map