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• Canadian troops captured Cape Gris Nez near Calais, France; the Germans and Canadians in the region agreed on a 24-hour truce so that civilians in the area could be evacuated. The news that the Canadians had captured the last remaining gun batteries in the Calais area was greeted with jubilation in the streets of Dover, England, United Kingdom. Since the start of the war, Dover had experienced 187 shelling attacks in addition to numerous bombing and V1 attacks. ww2dbase [TH]
• 15 British Lancaster bombers conducted minelaying operation in the Kattegat and off Helgoland, Germany. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Corporal John Harper of the British York and Lancaster Regiment led his section across 300 yards of open ground under heavy fire to take enemy positions at Antwerp, Belgium. He then went on alone to clear the advance with grenades until he was killed. For this he would be posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. ww2dbase [AC]

• USS Wasp arrived at Manus, Admiralty Islands. ww2dbase [Wasp (Essex-class) | Manus, Admiralty Islands | CPC]

• Cruisers USS Honolulu, USS Portland, USS Cleveland, and USS Indianapolis departed the Peleliu area bound for Manus in the Admiralty Islands. ww2dbase [Walden Ainsworth | Honolulu | Indianapolis | Portland | Peleliu, Palau | DS]

• B-25 bombers of US 14th Air Force attacked Tianhe Airfield in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. ww2dbase [Tianhe Airfield | Guangzhou, Guangdong | CPC]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Balikpapan, Dutch Borneo. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Balikpapan, Borneo | CPC]

• USS Archerfish arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her fourth war patrol. Lieutenant Commander Joseph Francis Enright, Sr. was made the submarine's commanding officer, relieving William Wright. ww2dbase [Archerfish | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• British 8th Army reached the Fiumicino River in Italy. ww2dbase [Gothic Line Offensive | Emilia-Romagna | CPC]

• Light carrier Ryuho arrived at Hashirajima, Japan. ww2dbase [Ryuho | Hashirajima, Yamaguchi | CPC]

• USS Miami arrived at Saipan, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Miami | Saipan | CPC]

• USS Whale made rendezvous with USS Seahorse and received orders to patrol waters in the South China Sea southwest of Taiwan. ww2dbase [Whale | South China Sea | CPC]

• Submarine USS Narwhal surfaced in Siari Bay, Mindanao, Philippines and took aboard one doctor and 81 survivors who had been POWs aboard the Shinyo Maru when that ship was torpedoed and sunk by the submarine USS Paddle on 7 Sep 1944. Four of the survivors were stretcher cases. ww2dbase [Narwhal | Siari, Mindanao | DS]

• 21 American OSS agents (under Lieutenant Commander Frank Wisner) were dropped into Bucharest, Romania to liberate 1,888 interned Allied airmen. As they evacuated the airmen, they also brought out with them many Romania diplomatic documents to prevent Soviet capture. ww2dbase [Jassy-Kishinev Offensive and Romania's Surrender | Bucharest | CPC]

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