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• Amon G?th was relieved of his position as the commandant of Plasz?w labor camp and was assigned to the SS Office of Economics and Administration. ww2dbase [Amon Göth | CPC]
• The German garrison at Brest, France maintained heavy resistance against US Ninth Army. ww2dbase [Brittany Campaign | TH]
• Soviet troops reached the Slovakian border. ww2dbase [CPC]
• USS Mingo fired three torpedoes at a Japanese ship; all missed. ww2dbase [Mingo | CPC]
• The first authorized special attack was conducted by two aircraft from the Japanese Army 31st Fighter Squadron based at Los Negros, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [CPC]
• USS Cabrilla departed Fremantle, Australia for her sixth war patrol. ww2dbase [Cabrilla | CPC]
• The 10 separate sections of floating drydock USS ABSD-2 were assembled, and the floating drydock became operational for ship repair work at Manus, Admiralty Islands. ww2dbase [ABSD-2 | CPC]

• Joseph Stilwell told leader Mao Zedong's envoys that he would begin to arrange Lend-Lease supplies for the Chinese communists. ww2dbase [Joseph Stilwell | CPC]

• Cruiser Georges Leygues arrived at Toulon, France. ww2dbase [Toulon Military Port | Georges Leygues | CPC]

• Carl Spaatz ordered large raids on German synthetic oil plants, dispatching 748 aircraft; the German Luftwaffe lost heavily in air battles. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | AC]
• Noor Inayat Khan was brutally beaten then executed by gunfire in the back of the head at Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany. ww2dbase [Dachau Concentration Camp | Noor Inayat Khan | CPC]
• Yolande Beekman was executed at Dachau Concentration Camp in southern Germany. ww2dbase [Dachau Concentration Camp | Yolande Beekman | CPC]

• USS Trepang departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Trepang | CPC]

• Coriano Ridge, part of the Gothic Line in Italy, was captured by Canadian troops. ww2dbase [Gothic Line Offensive | TH]

• USS Alabama escorted US carriers as carrier aircraft began attacking Japanese positions in the Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Alabama | CPC]
• USS Sunfish attacked a Japanese convoy in the Yellow Sea, sinking Etajima Maru and damaging another, hitting them with 5 of 13 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Sunfish (Gato-class) | CPC]
• USS Miami operated off the Philippine Islands in indirect support of the Palau Islands campaign. ww2dbase [Miami | CPC]

• USS Wasp's aircraft attacked Japanese positions in central Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Wasp (Essex-class) | CPC]

• Ferdinand Catlos was arrested by the Soviets in Kiev, Ukraine. ww2dbase [Ferdinand Catlos | CPC]

• One German V-2 rocket hit Britain. ww2dbase [V-Weapons Campaign | Vergeltungswaffe 2 | CPC]

• USS Ticonderoga arrived at San Diego, California, United States. ww2dbase [Ticonderoga | DS]
• YP-80A jet aircraft took its first flight; the flight lasted about 45 minutes. ww2dbase [P-80 Shooting Star | CPC]

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