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• USMC landed on Ngesebus of Palau Islands to eliminate a Japanese artillery position. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• RAF bombers dropped 909 tons of bombs on Kaiserslautern, Germany, destroying 36% of the town. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Apart from a few isolated pockets of resistance, the Germans surrendered Calais Citadel in France after further intensive bombing raids by British bombers. ww2dbase [AC]

• USS Columbia arrived at Manus, Admiralty Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• The grand Shinto shrine in Lushun, puppet nation of Manchukuo (Liaoning Province, China), its contruction completed in Mar 1944, held its opening ceremony. ww2dbase [CPC]
• B-25 bombers of US 14th Air Force attacked Tianhe Airfield in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Alabama arrived in Saipan, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Whale patrolled waters south of Taiwan. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Kete departed the Panama Canal Zone. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Kamoi took on food and disembarked heavy oil while at Manila, Philippines. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• Beginning on this date and through the following month, about 18,402 prisoners from Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in occupied Czechoslovakia were transferred to Auschwitz Concentration Camp in occupied Poland. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

• Allied convoy RA-60 departed the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• During a speech in the House of Commons, Winston Churchill condemned Bulgaria, reminding the members that Bulgarians have been responsible for many war crimes in Greece and Yugoslavia, and that (as far as Great Britain was concerned) they were not welcome as co-belligerents, until they demonstrate atonement for their former misdeeds. ww2dbase [Main Article | AC]
• German Air Force III/KG3 flew 20 sorties and lost two of their aircraft. The only other contacts were with a Royal Navy Avenger aircraft that was intercepted by Flight Officer Henley and a Warwick recognised in good time by Squardon Leader Humphrey, he continued on his patrol and claimed his first flying bomb over The hague, The Netherlands. All 7 of the bombs that got through the defence fell in the East Anglia region of England, United Kingdom, most landed in farmland and there were no injuries caused. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | HM]

• In Moscow, Russia, Josip Tito formally authorized Soviet troops to enter Yugoslavia. Soviet 57th Army began marching toward Belgrade, Yugoslavia in three columns, with 64th Rifle Corps crossing the Morava River at Paracin, 68th Rifle Corps advancing from Vidin toward Mladenovac, and 75th Rifle Corps advancing from Turnu toward Pozarevac. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH, CPC]

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