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• While inspecting the front lines at Okinawa, Japan, Simon Buckner was killed by shrapnel. ww2dbase [Simon Buckner | CPC]
• Japanese resistance on Mindinao, Philippine Islands ceased. ww2dbase [Philippines Campaign, Phase 2 | TH]
• The British demobilization began. ww2dbase [CPC]
• 25 American B-29 bombers laid naval mines in several areas including waters near Kobe, Japan. ww2dbase [CPC]
• The US submarine Bonefish was sunk by Japanese naval vessels in Toyama Wan, Honshu, Japan. ww2dbase [Bonefish | AC]
• USS Pompon departed Guam, Mariana Islands for her ninth and final war patrol. ww2dbase [Pompon | CPC]
• USS Hawkbill arrived at Subic Bay, Zambales, Philippine Islands, ending her fourth war patrol. ww2dbase [Hawkbill | CPC]
• Douglas MacArthur offered Joseph Stilwell the position as his chief of staff, but Stilwell turned it down, citing that he preferred to command troops. ww2dbase [Joseph Stilwell | CPC]
• USS Parche was relieved from her lifeguard station south of Japan. ww2dbase [Parche | CPC]

• The paper balloon envelope, valve, ballast dropping equipment, three sandbags, one unexploded 15kg high-explosive bomb, and two unexploded 5kg candle-type incendiary bombs from a Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb were found near Anchorage, Alaska. ww2dbase [Fu-Go | Anchorage | DS]

• The US coastal minesweeper YMS-50 was destroyed by the light cruiser USS Denver after striking a Japanese mine during the landings at Balikpapan, Borneo. ww2dbase [Balikpapan, Borneo | AC]

• General Nikolai Berzarin, the Soviet commander in Berlin, Germany, was killed in a car crash in the city. ww2dbase [Berlin | AC]

• Prince Kotohito was given a state funeral in Japan. ww2dbase [Kotohito | CPC]

• Kamikaze departed Singapore for patrols of waters off Singapore, Malaya, and French Indochina. ww2dbase [Kamikaze | Singapore | CPC]

• USS Guitarro arrived at San Franciso, California, United States. ww2dbase [Guitarro | San Francisco, California | CPC]

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