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27 Apr 1945
  • USS Sea Cat departed for her third war patrol. ww2dbase [Sea Cat | CPC]
  • Italian partisans captured Benito Mussolini. ww2dbase [Benito Mussolini | CPC]
  • US First Army captured Kempten and Straubing in southern Germany. ww2dbase [TH]
  • The western Allies refused to consider Himmler's attempts at negotiation for peace. ww2dbase [Germany's Surrender | CPC]
  • Operation Kikusui No. 4 was launched off Okinawa, Japan, participated by about 65 Japanese Navy and 50 Japanese Army special attack and escorting aircraft. ww2dbase [Okinawa Campaign | CPC]
  • Japanese Shinyo special attack boats damaged destroyer USS Hutchins and an LCI landing ship at Okinawa, Japan. ww2dbase [Shinyo-class | CPC]
  • Aleksandr Vasilevsky began planning for the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation. ww2dbase [Aleksandr Vasilevsky | CPC]
  • HMS Cumberland joined Task Force 63 with HMS Queen Elizabeth, French battleship Richelieu, HM Escort Aircraft Carriers Shah and Empress with HM Cruisers Suffolk, Ceylon and Dutch cruiser Tromp escorted by five fleet destroyers for attacks on Nicobar Islands. (Operation Bishop. Note: This was a diversion during assault on Rangoon (Operation Dracula). ww2dbase [Richelieu | Cumberland | Queen Elizabeth | DS]
  • USS Bailey departed Morotai escorting a convoy of transport ships carrying the 26th Australian Infantry Brigade to Tarakan, Borneo, Dutch East Indies. ww2dbase [Borneo Campaign | Bailey | DS]
Burma
  • The British East Indies Fleet sailed from Trincomalee, Ceylon to begin a series of strikes prior to the capture of Rangoon, Burma; this force of battleships, cruisers and destroyers would take it in turns to fuel and then screen the carriers hitting airfields, installations and coastal shipping in the Nicobars, the Andamans and along the Burma coast. Meanwhile, on land, Indian 17th Division was attacked by a Japanese suicide offensive north of Pegu; it was repulsed after the Japanese suffered 500 killed. ww2dbase [Battle of Rangoon | Pegu | AC, CPC]
Dutch East Indies
  • Cruisers USS Phoenix, HMAS Hobart, and USS Boise with destroyers USS Nicholas, USS O'Bannon, USS Fletcher, USS Jenkins, USS Taylor, and HMAS Warramunga arrived off Tarakan Island, Borneo, Dutch East Indies and began operations in preparations for the island’s invasion. ww2dbase [Nicholas | Boise | Phoenix | Borneo Campaign | Tarakan, Borneo | DS]
Germany Italy Pacific Ocean
  • Northwest of Okinawa, destroyer USS Ralph Talbot was struck by a special attack aircraft and nearly struck by another. The result was five men killed, many more wounded, and moderate damage to the ship. ww2dbase [Okinawa Campaign | Ralph Talbot | Tokko "Kamikaze" Special Attack Doctrine | East China Sea | DS]
  • USS Corregidor completed an anti-submarine patrol in the vicinity of Wotje and Maloelap, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Corregidor | CPC]
  • Patrol Boat No. 102 was detached from convoy SHIMO-03 in the Yellow Sea to perform an anti-submarine sweep. She reported spotting or engaging American PBY flying boats at 0849 hours, 1048 hours, and 2228 hours that were trying to follow the convoy. At 2234 hours, she picked up a contact on sonar and sailed to the location along with escort vessel Uku to investigate. They were attacked by two PBY aircraft at low altitude. Patrol Boat No. 102 shot down the first attacker, but the second attacker dropped a bomb and strafed the two Japanese ships successfully, damaging her hull, damaging her Type 22 surface-search radar antenna, and severing one rudder cable which render her temporarily dead in the water. She was attacked by another PBY aircraft at 2307 hours. ww2dbase [Stewart | Yellow Sea | CPC]
Poland
  • Nikolai Selivanovsky was named the NKVD adviser to the Polish Ministry of Public Safety, replacing Ivan Serov. ww2dbase [CPC]
Photo(s) dated 27 Apr 1945
Essex received provisions via highline from USS Mercury (AK-42), off Okinawa, 27 Apr 1945African-American soldiers of the US Army 92nd Infantry Division entering the Galleria Giuseppe Garibaldi, Genoa, Italy, 27 Apr 1945

27 Apr 1945 Interactive Map

Timeline Section Founder: Thomas Houlihan
Contributors: Alan Chanter, C. Peter Chen, Thomas Houlihan, Hugh Martyr, David Stubblebine
Special Thanks: Rory Curtis




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