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- USS Gar arrived at Mios Woendi, Biak Islands, ending her fourtheenth war patrol. ww2dbase [Gar | CPC]
- Destroyer Yuzuki arrived at Manila, Luzon, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Yuzuki | CPC]
- Sakawa was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Sakawa | CPC]
- U-869 was detached from the German Navy 4th Submarine Flotilla. ww2dbase [U-869 | CPC]
- Ivan Bagramyan was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the second time. ww2dbase [Ivan Bagramyan | CPC]
- The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against rail facilities in Gera, Germany. ww2dbase [RAF Thurleigh | Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Gera | DS]
- USS Sterlet arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her second war patrol. ww2dbase [Sterlet | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
- USS Honolulu departed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii bound for San Pedro, California. ww2dbase [Honolulu | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]
- Landing ship No. 146 was launched. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]
- Japanese Navy landing ship No. 184 Transferred to the Army, SB craft.was completed and was transferred to the Army as a SB craft. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]
- USS Sunfish sank Japanese transport Dairen Maru in the Yellow Sea, hitting her with 1 of 5 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Sunfish (Gato-class) | Yellow Sea | CPC]
- USS Preston guarded carriers while the carriers launched strikes against Luzon, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Preston (Fletcher-class) | CPC]
- Destroyer USS Shaw arrived in Leyte Gulf and anchored in San Pedro Bay. ww2dbase [Shaw | San Pedro Bay, Leyte | DS]
- Former commandant and guards of Majdanek Concentration Camp were put on trial in Poland. ww2dbase [Majdanek Concentration Camp | Nuremberg Trials and Other Trials Against Germany | Lublin | CPC]
- German V-2 rocket at Shooters Hill, London, England, United Kingdom at 0100 hours, killing 23. ww2dbase [Vergeltungswaffe 2 | V-Weapons Campaign | London, England | CPC]
- At a cost of £9,000,000 (excluding the cost of her guns and their mountings), Britain's last Battleship, HMS Vanguard, was launched at Clydebank, Scotland, United Kingdom. Too late to see service in World War II, Vanguard would eventually be completed in Apr 1946. ww2dbase [Clydebank, Scotland | AC]
- Production of P-40 fighters ceased. ww2dbase [P-40 Warhawk | CPC]
- Anti-submarine Hunter-Killer Task Group 22.2 (TG 22.2) centered around escort carrier USS Card with the TBM Avengers and FM-2 Wildcats of Composite Squadron VC-12 embarked and screened by destroyer escorts USS Baker, Bronstein, Thomas, Breeman, Coffman, and Bostwick was reformed at Norfolk, Virginia. TG 22.2 departed for the Central Atlantic that same day. ww2dbase [Norfolk Navy Yard | Card | Norfolk, Virginia | DS]




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