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• For the last time, Hitler left the Wolfsschanze Headquarters for Berlin, Germany. ww2dbase [Adolf Hitler | TH]
• Chen Cheng was named the head of the political bureau of the Nationalist military. ww2dbase [Chen Cheng | CPC]
• William Menefee Wilcox was named the commanding officer of USS Pollack. ww2dbase [Pollack | CPC]
• Chinese troops captured Mangshih, Yunnan Province, China. ww2dbase [Salween Offensive | CPC]

• Escort carrier USS Bogue and her task group departed Bermuda bound for New York. ww2dbase [Bogue | Port Royal Bay | DS]

• Japanese submarines I-36 and I-47 each delivered five Kaiten submarines off Ulithi, Caroline Islands. Only one of the Kaiten submarines would find a target, setting the fleet oiler Mississinewa, full of aviation fuel, aflame. ww2dbase [Kaiten-class | Ulithi | CPC]

• He Yingqin stepped down as Chiang Kaishek's chief of staff for military affairs. ww2dbase [He Yingqin | CPC]
• Gao Youxin, leading seven P-40 Warhawk fighters, was shot down by anti-aircraft fire over Jianjiang County, Hubei Province, China. He would spend the next 40-some days attempting to return to friendly lines. ww2dbase [Gao Youxin | Jianjiang, Hubei | CPC]
• Chen Lifu stepped down as the Minister of Education. ww2dbase [Chen Lifu | CPC]

• Admiral Scheer, Prinz Eugen, Z35, Z36, and Z43 began shelling Soviet positions during the evacuation of the Sõrve (German: Sworbe) peninsula on the Estonian island of Saaremaa (German: Ösel). ww2dbase [Z43 | Z36 | Prinz Eugen | Admiral Scheer | Z35 | Saaremaa | CPC]

• Jean de Lattre de Tassigny was awarded the Ordre de la Libération. ww2dbase [Jean de Lattre de Tassigny | CPC]

• Oberleutnant zur See Otto Hübschen stepped down as the commanding officer of U-2501. ww2dbase [U-2501 | CPC]

• USS Cod arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Cod | Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: The first engine overhauled in the new progressive engine overall plant, completed its test stand run. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• Garland set sail from the Eastern Mediterranean Sea for Britain. ww2dbase [Garland | CPC]

• Patrol Boat No. 102 departed Currimao on the northwestern coast of Luzon, Philippines at 1057 hours, arriving at San Fernando further down the coast at 1550 hours, and departed again at 1821 hours. ww2dbase [Stewart | Currimao | CPC]
• Battleship USS Colorado with escorting destroyers USS Renshaw and USS Saufley arrived at Leyte Gulf, Philippines. Renshaw and Saufley were released by Colorado and joined USS Maryland's Task Group 77.2 patrolling Leyte Gulf. ww2dbase [Maryland | Saufley | Renshaw | Colorado | Leyte Gulf, Leyte | DS]

• 1,014 arrested Polish Home Army and other partisan fighters arrived at the NKVD-run Ostashkov Special Camp in Tver Oblast, Russia by a special train after an 8-day journey. ww2dbase [Ostashkov Special Camp | Ostashkov, Tver | CPC]

20 Nov 1944 Interactive Map