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• USS Becuna fired three torpedoes at a Japanese transport in the Luzon Strait south of Taiwan; all torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• British Second Army reached the Rhine River, while the Germans sealed off US Third Army's bridgeheads across the Moselle River, south of Aachen, Germany. ww2dbase [TH]
• The Soviet minesweeper T.120 (formerly the USS Assail) was sunk by the German submarine U-739 in the Kara Sea in the Arctic Circle. ww2dbase [AC]
• The US coastal minesweeper YMS-19 was lost after striking a Japeanese mine southeast of Angaur, Palau Islands. ww2dbase [AC]

• USS Ticonderoga arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | DS]
• USS Tang departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, starting her fifth war patrol in the Taiwan Strait. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

• British XIII Corps captured Marradi, Italy. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH, CPC]

• The keel of landing ship No. 146 was laid down by Kawanami Kogyo. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• The STAVKA ordered the Soviet First Baltic Front to halt on the advance to Riga, Latvia, leaving the job to the Second Baltic Front and Third Baltic Front, and instead march toward Memel (now Klaipeda, Lithuania). ww2dbase [Main Article | TH, CPC]

• British troops captured Deurne, the Netherlands. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• Dennis Smith was wounded while taking photographs on the front lines. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | CPC]
• Two German Heinkel bombers of 7/KG3 were shot down over the Netherlands; the Staffelkapitän, Oberleutnant Günther Bönet, and his crew were those killed in the second aircraft brought down. Hauptmann Josef Dengg then took command of 7 Staffel. ww2dbase [HM]

• USS Alabama escorted US carriers as carrier aircraft began attacking Japanese positions in the central area of the Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Irako was attacked by US carrier aircraft and sank in Coron Bay, Busuanga, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]
• Kamoi received damage from an aircraft of US Task Force 38 in a sound between off Lusong island, Palawan, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• The Soviet GKO issued an order to increase food rations of NKVD, NKGB, and SMERSH operatives and officers. ww2dbase [CPC]

• A wayward British Lancaster bomber returning from a bombing raid had a close escape when multiple Mosquito aircraft were vectored into the area, the night fighters only recognised the ailing British bomber as it came out of cloud and into the moonlight. These Mosquito aircraft were then themselves buzzed and attacked by others failing to hear that there were other patrols being sent to the area. ww2dbase [HM]

• USS Wisconsin departed Philadelphia Navy Yard in Pennsylvania, United States. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

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