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• Prisoner of war Don Atkiss, who was injected with malaria-infected blood by Unit 731 doctor Captain Enosuke Hirano, died from the disease at Rabaul, New Britain. ww2dbase [Rabaul, New Britain | CPC]

• American, British, and French troops entered Vienna, Austria. ww2dbase [Vienna | TH]

• Song Ziwen stepped down as the Minister of Foreign Affairs. ww2dbase [Song Ziwen | CPC]

• Japanese beheaded 144 Dutch prisoners at Samarinda, Borneo, Dutch East Indies, but only after they had been forced to watch their wives being bayoneted or hacked to death with swords, and their children hurled down a mine shaft where all of the bodies were eventually dumped. ww2dbase [Samarinda, Borneo | AC]

• Otto Skorzeny was transferred from Wiesbaden, Germany to the former Luftwaffe camp at Oberursel. ww2dbase [Otto Skorzeny | Wiesbaden | CPC]

• Gato-class submarine USS Silversides arrived at Apra Harbor, Guam and went alongside tender USS Sperry for a refit. ww2dbase [Silversides | Apra Harbor | DS]

• USS Cero arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her eighth war patrol. ww2dbase [Cero | Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | CPC]

• American battleships USS South Dakota, USS Indiana, and USS Massachusetts, joined by British battleship HMS King George V (this would be her final combat action of the war) ended a two-day bombardment of Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Meanwhile, carrier fighters from USS Ticonderoga (Air Group 87), USS Shangri-La, and USS Yorktown attacked airfields, railroads, and tactical targets east and west of Hamamatsu, generally the larger Kyoto-Kobe-Osaka region and the Tokyo region. Destroyer Yukikaze suffered minor damage and one killed by carrier aircraft in Miyatsu Bay on the coast of the Sea of Japan. ww2dbase [Shangri-La | King George V | Ticonderoga | Yukikaze | Yorktown (Essex-class) | Preparations for Invasion of Japan | Shizuoka | DS]
• The Japanese government instructed its citizens on how to prepare acorns for food. ww2dbase [CPC]

• USS Blenny reported sinking two small Japanese craft with the deck gun in the South China Sea off Malaya. ww2dbase [Blenny | South China Sea | CPC]
• USS Bugara sank 3 small enemy craft with her deck gun in the Gulf of Siam and South China Sea area during the day. ww2dbase [Bugara | South China Sea | CPC]
• USS Sennet sank a Japanese transport in the Sea of Japan, hitting her with 2 of 3 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Sennet | Sea of Japan | CPC]
• USS Whale encountered a heavy storm east of Okino Shima, Japan. ww2dbase [Whale | CPC]
• I-14 was attacked by US destroyers east of the Mariana Islands. She remained submerged for 35 hours, charging her batteries by snorkel. ww2dbase [I-14 | CPC]

• The assembly of the ten sections of USS ABSD-1 began at Manicani Bay, Samar, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [ABSD-1 | CPC]

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