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• Andrew McNaughton was born in Moosomin, Northwest Territories (later Saskatchewan), Canada. ww2dbase [Andrew McNaughton | Moosomin, Saskatchewan | CPC]

• Vyacheslav Molotov was born. ww2dbase [Vyacheslav Molotov | CPC]

• Hugo Sperrle was promoted to the rank of Fähnrich. ww2dbase [Hugo Sperrle | CPC]

• Erwin Rommel received the Württembergische Goldene Verdienstmedaille award. ww2dbase [Erwin Rommel | CPC]

• Following the suicide of Ataman Alexey Kaledin and the departure of Lavr Kornilov's "Volunteer Army", a "Red" Cossack leader, V. S. Golubov, broke into the Parliament building at Novocherkassk, Russia forcibly dissolving the Krug (the parliament of the Don Cossacks) and then shot the new Ataman, Anatoly Nazarov, and several leading politicians. The reaction to the killing of the elected head of the Cossack State was instantaneous - General Popov, leader of the Don forces, deserted, with indecent haste, with 1,500 men (leaving behind an almost equal number to men to face the oncoming Reds). ww2dbase [Novocherkassk, Rostov | AC]

• Rear Admiral John D. McDonald was named the commanding officer of New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York, United States. ww2dbase [New York Navy Yard | Brooklyn, New York | CPC]

25 Feb 1918 Interactive Map

• Ernst Udet married Eleanor Zink. ww2dbase [Ernst Udet | CPC]

• Oswald Mosley's daughter Vivien Elizabeth Mosley was born. ww2dbase [Oswald Mosley | CPC]

• Russia occupied Tblisi, the capital of Georgia. ww2dbase [Tblisi | CPC]

• Major General Kojiro Satoi was named the chief of staff of the Taiwan Army. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Diplomatic relations between Japan and the Soviet Union were established. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Alexandros Sakellariou was awarded the Cross of Valour in Gold. ww2dbase [Alexandros Sakellariou | CPC]

• Yoshinori Shirakawa was named the commanding officer of the Japanese Shanghai Expeditionary Army. ww2dbase [Yoshinori Shirakawa | CPC]

• Adolf Hitler was named a liaison to Braunschweig, German's legation to the capital city of Berlin, an appointment by which Hitler also gained citizenship of Braunschweig. As citizens of the city of Braunschweig were considered German citizens, the Austrian-born Hitler was now allowed to run for the office of the President of Germany. ww2dbase [Adolf Hitler | CPC]

• Captain W. B. Mackenzie was named the commanding officer of HMS Hermes while the ship was at Hong Kong, relieving Captain E. J. G. MacKinnon. ww2dbase [Hermes | CPC]

• Chuichi Nagumo was assigned to the Japanese Navy investigation board over the First Battle of Shanghai. ww2dbase [Chuichi Nagumo | CPC]

• The USS Ranger was launched as the first US Navy ship to be built solely as an aircraft carrier. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Kliment Voroshilov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. ww2dbase [Kliment Voroshilov | CPC]

• Japanese troops captured Chaoyang, Baipiao, and Kailu in Rehe, China. ww2dbase [First Battle of Hebei | CPC]

• The Lytton Commission reported to the League of Nations at Geneva, Switzerland that Japan had violated Chinese sovereignty and the establishment of the puppet state of Manchukuo was illegal. Japanese representative to the league Matsuoka Yosuke walked out of the conference hall as instructed by his superiors in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Geneva | CPC]

• The aircraft carrier Ranger was launched at Newport News, Virginia with First Lady Lou Hoover as sponsor. As this was during America’s Prohibition period, Mrs. Hoover cracked a bottle of grape juice against the bow of the ship. ww2dbase [Newport News Shipbuilding | Ranger | Newport News, Virginia | DS]

25 Feb 1933 Interactive Map

• The order for the German army to commence wearing Nazi party badges was published in Militär-Wochenblatt No. 32. ww2dbase [AC]

• The prototype He 111 medium bomber made its maiden flight with test pilot Gerhard Nitschke at the controls. ww2dbase [He 111 Doppel-Blitz | AC]

• Sun Chu arrived at the front lines in the conflict against the Chinese communists in Shaanxi, China. ww2dbase [Sun Chu | CPC]

• Edmund Herring became a King's Counsel. ww2dbase [Edmund Herring | CPC]

• The British Cabinet approved a report calling for the expansion of the Royal Navy and re-equipment (but not expansion) of the Army, together with the establishment of "shadow factories" paid for with public money but to be managed by industrial companies. ww2dbase [AC]

• Tatsuta Maru arrived at Honolulu, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Tatsuta Maru | CPC]
• Erwin Rommel was posted as the War Ministry's liaison to Baldur von Schirach of the Hitler Youth. ww2dbase [Erwin Rommel | CPC]

• Over Nanchang, China, Tetsuzo Iwamoto saw combat for the first time, claiming 3 confirmed and 1 probable kills. ww2dbase [Tetsuzo Iwamoto | CPC]

• In Britain, the first of two and a half million Anderson shelters began to be issued to households in vulnerable areas. ww2dbase [Anderson Shelter | AC]

• British submarine HMS Narwhal, escorting convoy HN-14 from Bergen, Norway to Methil, Scotland, spotted German submarine U-63 on the surface at 0755 hours, which dove to avoid attack. Destroyers Escapade, Escort, Inglefield, and Imogen attacked the submarine with depth charges for nearly 2 hours, finally forcing her to surface at 0950 hours. U-63 was scuttled 100 miles east of Wick, Scotland. Of the German crew, 1 was killed, and 24 were captured by Inglefield and Imogen. The German prisoners of war were landed at Leith, Scotland on 27 Feb 1940; they would remain in Britain until the end of the war. ww2dbase [CPC]
• No. 110 Army Co-operation (Auxiliary) Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force arrived in Britain. ww2dbase [CPC]

• February Strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike began in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazi occupation administration. ww2dbase [CPC]
• German battleship Tirpitz was commissioned to Kapitän zur See Friedrich Karl Topp. ww2dbase [Tirpitz | CPC]
• British submarine HMS Upright attacked an Italian convoy 45 miles off Sfax, Tunisia at 0343 hours, sinking Italian cruiser Armando Diaz; 464 were killed, 147 survived. The convoy was traveling from Naples, Italy to Tripoli, Libya. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Nigerian Brigade of the British 11th African Division captured Mogadishu, Italian Somaliland, Italian East Africa and the 400,000 gallons of fuel in its stores. ww2dbase [Invasion of Italian East Africa | CPC]

• Jaguar and Iltis began laying a minefield off Eastbourne, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Iltis | Jaguar | English Channel | CPC]

• Battleship Tirpitz was completed. ww2dbase [Tirpitz | CPC]

• Royal Navy Submarine HMS Parthian (Commander M. G. Rimington, DSO, RN) acted as a beacon to guide the ships in that participated in Operation Abstention, which aimed to take control of the Italian-held Greek island of Kastelorizo off the Turkish coast. A raiding party of 200 commandos was landed by destroyers HMS Decoy (H 73; Commander E. G. McGregor, DSO, RN) and HMS Hereward (H 93; Commander C. W. Greening, RN). The gunboat HMS Ladybird (Lieutenant Commander (retired) J.F. Blackburn, RN) landed Royal Marines. However, the operation was a failure as Italian forces led by Admiral Luigi Biancheri reacted with vigour and retook the island. ww2dbase [Kastelorizo, Rhodes | HM]

• Royal Navy submarine HMS Regent (Lieutenant Commander H.C. Browne, RN) attacked a southbound enemy convoy north-west of Tripoli, Libya. Two torpedoes were fired at one of the merchant vessels but they both missed. The convoy attacked was made up by German merchant vessels Ankara (4,768 tons), Marburg (7,564 tons), Kybfels (7,764 tons) and Reichenfels (7,744 tons). They were escorted by the Italian destroyers Aviere, Geniere and the torpedo boat Castore. ww2dbase [HM]

• Viktor Abakumov was named the NKVD deputy commissar. ww2dbase [Viktor Abakumov | CPC]

• While escorting convoy FN 417, British destroyer HMS Exmoor (Lieutenant Commmander R. T. Lampard) either hit a mine and sank or was sunk by German motor torpedo boat S-30 12 miles off Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. Exmoor put up a strong defence of her convoy, but after the explosion she sank quickly. Four officers, including her Commanding Officer, and 100 men were lost with the ship; 32 survived. No ships of the convoy suffered loss or damage. ww2dbase [Lowestoft, England | CPC, HM]
• After sundown, torpedo boats Iltis (Lieutenant Commander Jacobsen) and Jaguar (Lieutenant Commander Hartenstein) carried out mining operations off Eastbourne on the Sussex coast of England, United Kingdom. The minefield would be known as "Augsburg A". ww2dbase [England | HM]

• USS Nevada departed Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. ww2dbase [Puget Sound Navy Yard | Nevada | Bremerton, Washington | DS]

25 Feb 1941 Interactive Map

• A two-day debate in British House of Commons ended with many being critical of the policy of bombing German cities. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | TH]
• Tatsuta Maru departed Mereyon, Palau Islands. ww2dbase [Tatsuta Maru | CPC]
• Major General Smyth requested that Lieutenant General Hutton grant him sick leave but received no reply. ww2dbase [AC]
• Italian submarine Torelli sank Panamanian tanker Esso Copenhagen 525 miles east of Trinidad; 1 was killed, 38 survived. On the same day, Italian submarine Da Vinci sank Brazilian ship Cadebelo 800 miles east of Guadeloupe; everyone aboard was killed. ww2dbase [Second Happy Time | CPC]

• HMS Indomitable arrived at Port Sudan in British East Africa and received Hurricane fighters and personnel of No. 30 and No. 261 Squadrons. ww2dbase [Indomitable | Port Sudan | CPC]

• German submarine U-156 sank British tanker La Carriere 70 miles south of Puerto Rico; 15 were killed, 26 survived. ww2dbase [Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico Campaigns | Caribbean Sea | CPC]
• Luigi Torelli sank Panamanian freighter Esso Copenhagen in the Atlantic Ocean, killing 1 of 39 aboard. ww2dbase [Luigi Torelli | CPC]
• Leonardo da Vinci sighted Brazilian freighter Cabedello, carrying coal and sailing toward Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the Atlantic Ocean at 0922 hours. At 0944 hours, the Italian submarine fired two bow torpedoes, both hitting the freighter and sinking her in six minutes. Leonardo da Vinci sighted three lifeboats and tried to pick up survivors for interrogation, but rough seas created the danger of accidental ramming, so commanding officer Luigi Longanesi Cattani gave the order to resume the patrol. None of the survivors would be rescued, and thus the entire crew of 54 were ultimately lost in this attack. ww2dbase [Second Happy Time | Leonardo da Vinci | CPC]

• USAT Ancon and USAT Hugh L. Scott arrived at Brisbane, Australia, delivering ground echelons of 3rd Bombardment Group (Light and 22nd Bombardment Group (Medium) of the United States Army Air Forces. ww2dbase [Brisbane, Queensland | CPC]

• HMS Hermes arrived at Trincomalee, Ceylon and disembarked Swordfish torpedo bombers of 814 Naval Air Squadron. ww2dbase [Hermes | Trincomalee | CPC]

• Akagi departed Staring Bay, Celebes, Dutch East Indies with the Striking Force to cover the invasion of Java. ww2dbase [Akagi | Staring Bay, Celebes | CPC]
• In the Dutch East Indies, the second of two Japanese invasion fleets for Java departed from Balikpapan, Borneo; the fleet was consisted of 41 troop transports and escorted by 5 cruisers and 16 destroyers. ww2dbase [Dutch East Indies Campaign, Java | Balikpapan, Borneo | CPC]
• Japanese carriers departed from Kendari, Celebes to patrol waters off Java and Australia. ww2dbase [Kendari, Celebes | CPC]
• Japanese submarine I-158 attacked Dutch freighter Boeroe off Java, Dutch East Indies at 1015 hours but was driven off by an escort; at 1130 hours, I-158 attacked again, sinking Boeroe with two torpedoes; all 70 aboard survived. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Kaga departed Staring Bay near Kendari, Celebes, Dutch East Indies. ww2dbase [Kaga | Staring Bay, Celebes | CPC]
• Naka departed Makassar, Celebes, Dutch East Indies. ww2dbase [Naka | Makassar, Celebes | CPC]

• The first A4 rocket was placed on Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany. ww2dbase [Peenemünde Army Research Center | Peenemünde, Pommern | AC]

• Joseph Stilwell arrived in India. ww2dbase [Joseph Stilwell | CPC]

• Rear Admiral Keiichi Onishi was named the chief of staff of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea. ww2dbase [Chinkai Guard District | Chinkai, Gyeongsangnam | CPC]

• In the Flores Sea, submarine USS Spearfish fired four torpedoes at a pair of heavy cruisers with no hits. ww2dbase [Spearfish | Flores Sea | DS]

• The Soviets began trials for a new submachine gun to succeed the proven PPSh-41 design. ww2dbase [PPS | CPC]

• The keel of destroyer Success was laid down by J. Samuel White on Isle of Wight, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Stord | Cowes, England | DS]

• At 0225 hours, radar operators in Los Angeles, California, United States picked up an unidentified airborne target 120 miles off the coast. Air raid sirens sounded, anti-aircraft emplacements were manned, and shore batteries were alerted. Shortly after 0300, one of the area’s coastal anti-aircraft positions started firing. Searchlights snapped on, other gun batteries joined in, and invasion alerts were flashed. The shooting continued sporadically for nearly an hour. Over 1,400 anti-aircraft shells were fired that damaged no aircraft. There had been no aircraft in the skies at all. Wide-spread damage to civilian property resulted from falling anti-aircraft shells and shrapnel. Five people died; two from heart attacks and three in automobile accidents. This incident became known as the Battle of Los Angeles. In the following days, the incident was well-reported in the press. ww2dbase [Japanese Attacks on the Continental United States | Los Angeles, California | CPC]
• USS Hammann departed San Francisco, California, United States as a part of Task Force 17. ww2dbase [Hammann | San Francisco, California | CPC]
• Battleships USS Tennessee and USS Maryland depart Puget Sound Naval Shipyard after repairs. ww2dbase [Puget Sound Navy Yard | Maryland | Tennessee | Bremerton, Washington | DS]

25 Feb 1942 Interactive Map

• Battle for Kasserine Pass in Tunisia closed with the Americans, inexperienced and poorly led, suffered a major defeat. Nevertheless, the Americans would regain the pass at the end of the battle as overall strategy dictated the Axis forces to withdraw back into northern Tunisia. ww2dbase [Battle of Kasserine Pass | TH]
• Princeton was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Princeton | CPC]
• Douglas MacArthur issued his campaign plan for the Southwest Pacific while arguing that a campaign through the Central Pacific would be "time consuming and expensive in our naval power and shipping." ww2dbase [Douglas MacArthur | CPC]
• After not being able to locate Sinlamaung, Burma in the past three days, the Chindit unit assigned to attack the Japanese garrison there finally found the village. They found the Japanese garrison had already departed, however. ww2dbase [Operation Longcloth | CPC]
• British aircraft bombed and sank the 9,036-ton merchant steamer Alcomo which had been taken over from the Vichy French by the Italian maritime authorities and renamed. The ship had originally been the British Hermes and had been in Algiers in Jun 1940 when the Vichy French impounded her. ww2dbase [HM]

• Comandante Cappellini detected an aircraft in the Atlantic Ocean at 0129 hours with her Metox radar detector; she submerged to avoid detection. ww2dbase [Comandante Cappellini | CPC]

• The submarine HMS Torbay (Lieutenant R. J. Clutterbuck, RN) damaged the 80-ton Italian auxiliary minesweeper Monte Argentario with gunfire off Ajaccio, Corsica, France. Clutterbuck had seen the small vessel earlier but had resisted an attack in the hope that a bigger target would appear. The wait proved fruitless and so he surfaced two nights later and opened fire with the deck gun. The minesweeper was driven ashore by her crew and the action was broken off when the submarine came under fire from a shore battery. ww2dbase [Ajaccio, Corsica | HM]

• I-168 arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. ww2dbase [I-68/I-168 | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]
• Captain Yoshijiro Imaizumi was named the commanding officer of Naka while the ship was at Maizuru, Japan. ww2dbase [Naka | Maizuru, Kyoto | CPC]

• USS Permit fired five torpedoes at a Japanese transport off Japan; all four torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Permit | CPC]

• No. 3 WAAF Depot at Morecombe, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom was closed. ww2dbase [WAAF: Women in the WW2 Royal Air Force | Morecombe, England | AC]

• USS Copahee departed San Diego, California, United States. ww2dbase [Copahee | San Diego, California | CPC]
• US 11th Airborne Division was activated at Camp Mackall, North Carolina, United States under the command of Major General Joseph M. Swing. ww2dbase [Camp Mackall, North Carolina | AC]

25 Feb 1943 Interactive Map

• Battleship Musashi was reassigned to the Second Fleet. ww2dbase [Musashi | CPC]
• USS Tang sank Japanese transport Echizen Maru. ww2dbase [Tang | CPC]
• Destroyer Yuzuki arrived at Palau Islands. ww2dbase [Yuzuki | CPC]
• Bruce Fraser was awarded Soviet Order of Suvorov, First Class. ww2dbase [Bruce Fraser | CPC]

• A British Catalina aircraft sank German submarine U-601 near Allied convoy JW-57; all 51 aboard were killed. At 2055 hours the British destroyer HMS Mahratta (G 23) (Lieutenant Commander E. A. F. Drought, DSC, RN) was hit by a G7es acoustic torpedo from German submarine U-990 about 280 miles from the North Cape, Norway, while escorting the stern sector of convoy JW-57. The destroyer exploded and sank within minutes. HMS Impulsive (D 11) (Lieutenant Commander P. Bekenn, RN) and HMS Wanderer (D 74) (Lieutenant Commander R. F. Whinney, DSC, RN) were quickly on the scene to pick up survivors, but only 16 survivors could be recovered from the freezing waters. The commander, ten officers and 209 ratings lost their lives. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Norwegian Sea | CPC, HM]

• The supply depot on the coast near Kokopo, New Britain was bombarded by US destroyers for 30 minutes starting at about 2330 hours; a warehouse was damaged by fires. 2,000 5-inch shells were expended by the US Navy on this bombardment. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | Kokopo, New Britain | CPC]
• The convoy of LSTs was joined by another convoy of LSTs and troop landing ships and were escorted by destroyer USS Saufley. The convoy arrived at Green Island (now Nissan), Northern Solomons where Saufley covered the landings. Once the ships made their landings, the convoy withdrew and set a course for Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | Saufley | Green Island, Northern Solomons | DS]

• The American submarine USS Rasher (SS-269) (Lieutenant Commander Willard R. Laughon) intercepted a Japanese convoy of Ryusei Maru and Tango Maru escorted by minesweepers W-8 and W-11 together with an auxiliary submarine chaser TakunanMaru No. 3. The convoy was proceeding from Surabaya to Ambon in the Dutch East Indies. Ryusei Maru was carrying approximately 6,000 Japanese soldiers and Tango Maru had 3,500 Javanese workers and 3,500 Allied prisoners of war on board. At 2045 hours Rasher torpedoed and sank Tango Maru about 25 miles north of Bali Island, an hour and a half later Rasher fired four torpedoes at Ryusei Maru, three torpedoes hit, and the vessel sank quickly taking most of the men on board her down. ww2dbase [Rasher | Bali Sea | AC, HM]

• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against the Messerschmitt factory at Augsburg, Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | RAF Thurleigh | Augsburg | DS]

• Five Italian motor torpedo boats attacked the Allied beachhead at Anzio, Italy before dawn, causing no damage and suffering no losses. ww2dbase [Battle of Anzio | Anzio, Lazio | CPC]

• Assigned to the Second Fleet, Yamato was drydocked at Kure, Japan to receive upgrades. Two beam triple 6.1 inch (155-mm) turrets were to be removed and replaced by six (3x2) 5-inch (127-mm) HA AA mounts. Twenty-four (8x3) and 26 single 25mm AA mounts were to be added. Shelters were also added on the upper deck for the increased AA crews. Type 13 air search and Type 22 Mod 4 surface search/gunnery control radars were to be installed. The main mast was to be altered. Two 150-mm searchlights were to be removed (later installed ashore at Kure, Japan). Yamato was to be fitted with Type 2 infrared (IR) Identification Friend-or-Foe (IFF)/signaling devices mounted midway up on each side of the bridge; the system might had been based on the German Seehund IR device, built around a telescopic sensor that received light-waves in the IR range and registered a readout in the radio shack. The IFF system also included a pair of 20-mm binoculars coaxially mounted with the transmitting IR lamp on the bridge so that another ship could use the IR detector for elementary signaling or as a formation light for station keeping. About this time, Yamato was also fitted with multiple E27 radar detectors copied from the German FuMB 1 Metox R.600. ww2dbase [Kure Naval Arsenal | Yamato | Kure, Hiroshima | CPC]
• Landing ship No. 129 was launched. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]
• The keel of landing ship No. 132 was laid down by Kawanami Kogyo. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]

• Carriers USS Corregidor and USS Coral Sea with destroyers USS Nicholas, USS LaVallette, and USS Taylor departed Kwajalein, Marshall Islands as escorts to bound for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ww2dbase [Anzio | Corregidor | Nicholas | Kwajalein | DS]

• USS Grayback sank tanker Nanho Maru and damaged freighter Asama Maru. ww2dbase [Grayback | CPC]

• USS Hoe sank Japanese fleet tanker Nissho Maru and damaged fleet tanker Kyokuto Maru with a night time surfaced torpedo attack south of Davao Gulf, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Hoe | Mindanao | CPC]

25 Feb 1944 Interactive Map

• US 3rd Armored Division used M26 Pershing heavy tanks in combat for the first time near the Roer River in the Belgian-German border region. ww2dbase [M26 Pershing/M46 | CPC]
• Omar Bradley gave George Patton the authority to make advances toward the Rhine River. ww2dbase [Advance to the Rhine | CPC]
• USS Nicholas departed Subic Bay bound for Lingayen Gulf, Luzon. ww2dbase [Nicholas | DS]

• The keel of U-3060 was laid down on Building Ways IV at the Deschimag shipyard in Bremen, Germany. ww2dbase [Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG | U-3060 | Bremen, Weser-Ems | CPC]

• Fighter quadron VF-80 from USS Hancock flew one fighter sweep against Tokyo, Japan; no aircraft were lost. ww2dbase [Hancock | Tokyo | DS]
• USS Wisconsin escorted carriers as the carrier aircraft attacked Hachino, Japan. ww2dbase [Wisconsin | CPC]
• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) launched raids to bomb and strafe airfields in the vicinity of Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Battle of Iwo Jima | Yorktown (Essex-class) | Tokyo | DS]
• Minoru Ota was made the commanding officer of Okinawa Area Auxiliary Base Force. ww2dbase [Minoru Ota | Okinawa | CPC]

• USS Hoe sank Japanese convoy escort ship Shonan with 1 of 4 torpedoes fired from periscope depth in the South China Sea. ww2dbase [Hoe | South China Sea | CPC]

• Palawan attack force, with USCGC Spencer as flagship and destroyer USS Shaw as screening vessel, conducted a rehearsal landing off Mindoro, Philippines. ww2dbase [Philippines Campaign, Phase 2 | Spencer | Shaw | Mangarin, Mindoro | DS]

• US aircraft attacked neutral Portuguese Macau. ww2dbase [CPC]

• The former German ship F7, now in Soviet service, was renamed Buran. ww2dbase [F7 | CPC]

• USS Alabama exited a drydock at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, United States. ww2dbase [Puget Sound Navy Yard | Alabama | Bremerton, Washington | CPC]

25 Feb 1945 Interactive Map

• Franz Halder was interrogated by US Army attorney Captain Sam Harris; during the interrogation, Halder revealed the plan and the history of the 1938 plot against Adolf Hitler (which was never launched). ww2dbase [Franz Halder | CPC]
• The Red Army of the Soviet Union was officially renamed the Soviet Army. ww2dbase [CPC]

• USS Ancon was decommissioned from service at the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, United States. ww2dbase [New York Navy Yard | Ancon | Brooklyn, New York | CPC]
• S-41 was struck from the US Naval Register. ww2dbase [S-41 | CPC]

25 Feb 1946 Interactive Map

• Battleship New Mexico was struck from the US Naval Vessel Register. ww2dbase [New Mexico | CPC]
• Helm was removed from the US Naval Vessel Register. ww2dbase [Helm | CPC]

• A communist government took power in Czechoslovakia. ww2dbase [CPC]

• USS Randolph was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Randolph | DS]

• Daniel James, Jr. passed away in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. ww2dbase [Daniel James | Colorado Springs, Colorado | CPC]

• USS Missouri was accidentally damaged by USS Jarrett. ww2dbase [Missouri | CPC]