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• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Singapore. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]
• USS Astoria crossed the International Date Line. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Adolf Eichmann ordered the deportation of 18,000 Jews from Budapest, Hungary to concentration camps. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• US Third Army entered Germany proper. ww2dbase [TH]
• US XX Corps surrounded Metz, France. ww2dbase [TH]
• The Ki-83 heavy fighter took its first flight. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Antrup Wilhelm was awarded Oak Leaves to his Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Heinrich Höfer was awarded Oak Leaves to his Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. ww2dbase [CPC]

• The C-0101 transport aircraft completed its first operational flight from Chongqing, China to Taipingsi Airport in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Pollack arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]
• USS Snook arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her seventh war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]
• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 23 on board. ww2dbase [Main Article | DS]

• USS Sunfish sank Japanese transport Seisho Maru in the East China Sea at 0317 hours. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Shamrock Bay transited the Panama Canal. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

18 Nov 1944 Interactive Map