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• Amon Göth was relieved of his position as the commandant of Plaszów labor camp and was assigned to the SS Office of Economics and Administration. ww2dbase [Amon Göth | CPC]
• The German garrison at Brest, France maintained heavy resistance against US Ninth Army. ww2dbase [Brittany Campaign | TH]
• Soviet troops reached the Slovakian border. ww2dbase [CPC]
• USS Mingo fired three torpedoes at a Japanese ship; all missed. ww2dbase [Mingo | CPC]
• The first authorized special attack was conducted by two aircraft from the Japanese Army 31st Fighter Squadron based at Los Negros, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [CPC]
• USS Cabrilla departed Fremantle, Australia for her sixth war patrol. ww2dbase [Cabrilla | CPC]
• The 10 separate sections of floating drydock USS ABSD-2 were assembled, and the floating drydock became operational for ship repair work at Manus, Admiralty Islands. ww2dbase [ABSD-2 | CPC]

• Joseph Stilwell told leader Mao Zedong's envoys that he would begin to arrange Lend-Lease supplies for the Chinese communists. ww2dbase [Joseph Stilwell | CPC]

• Cruiser Georges Leygues arrived at Toulon, France. ww2dbase [Georges Leygues | Toulon Military Port | Toulon, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | CPC]

• Carl Spaatz ordered large raids on German synthetic oil plants, dispatching 748 aircraft; the German Luftwaffe lost heavily in air battles. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | AC]
• Noor Inayat Khan was brutally beaten then executed by gunfire in the back of the head at Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany. ww2dbase [Noor Inayat Khan | Dachau Concentration Camp | Dachua, München-Oberbayern | CPC]
• Yolande Beekman was executed at Dachau Concentration Camp in southern Germany. ww2dbase [Yolande Beekman | Dachau Concentration Camp | Dachau, München-Oberbayern | CPC]
• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against I.G. Farben synthetic oil facilities at Merseburg, Germany. ww2dbase [RAF Thurleigh | Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Merseburg | DS]

• USS Trepang departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. ww2dbase [Trepang | Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• 73 B-17s, escorted by 63 P-51s, continuing the Operation Frantic UK-USSR-Italy-UK shuttle-bombing mission, took off from Ukraine bases, bombed a steel and armament works at Diósgyőr, Hungary and proceeded to Fifteenth Air Force bases in Italy. ww2dbase [Operation Frantic | P-51 Mustang | B-17 Flying Fortress | Diósgyőr | DS]

• Coriano Ridge, part of the Gothic Line in Italy, was captured by Canadian troops. ww2dbase [Gothic Line Offensive | TH]

• Submarine USS Thresher fired four torpedoes at a Japanese cargo ship with one hit that damaged the ship. ww2dbase [Thresher | East China Sea | DS]
• Zuikaku arrived at Oita, Japan. ww2dbase [Zuikaku | Oita | CPC]

• USS Alabama escorted US carriers as carrier aircraft began attacking Japanese positions in the Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Alabama | CPC]
• USS Sunfish attacked a Japanese convoy in the Yellow Sea, sinking Etajima Maru and damaging another, hitting them with 5 of 13 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Sunfish (Gato-class) | Yellow Sea | CPC]
• USS Miami operated off the Philippine Islands in indirect support of the Palau Islands campaign. ww2dbase [Miami | Philippine Sea | CPC]

• USS Wasp's aircraft attacked Japanese positions in central Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Wasp (Essex-class) | CPC]

• After sundown, two aircraft of No. 1586 (Polish Special Duties) Flight RAF took flight to drop supplies on Warsaw, Poland. One of them was shot down over Hungary, while the other successfully made its delivery. ww2dbase [Warsaw Uprising | Warsaw | CPC]

• Ferdinand Catlos was arrested by the Soviets in Kiev, Ukraine. ww2dbase [Ferdinand Catlos | Kiev | CPC]

• One German V-2 rocket hit Britain. ww2dbase [Vergeltungswaffe 2 | V-Weapons Campaign | CPC]

• USS Ticonderoga arrived at San Diego, California, United States. ww2dbase [Ticonderoga | San Diego, California | DS]
• YP-80A jet aircraft took its first flight; the flight lasted about 45 minutes. ww2dbase [P-80 Shooting Star | CPC]
• Lieutenant Commander Richard Latham relieved Commander Donald Weiss as commanding officer of submarine USS Tinosa. ww2dbase [Tinosa | San Francisco, California | DS]

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