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• Semyon Budyonny was born. ww2dbase [Semyon Budyonny | CPC]

• Edward Brooks was born in Concord, New Hampshire, United States. ww2dbase [Edward Brooks | Concord, New Hampshire | CPC]

• Edward Murrow was born. ww2dbase [Edward Murrow | CPC]

• Friedrich Christiansen shot down a British H12B flying boat. ww2dbase [Friedrich Christiansen | CPC]

• Douglas MacArthur arrived in New York, New York, United States via ocean liner Leviathan. ww2dbase [Douglas MacArthur | New York | CPC]

• Four Polish armies under the command of Marshal Pilsudski marched into the Ukraine. ww2dbase [AC]

• Crown Prince Hirohito traveled to Peito (now Beitou), Taiwan and visited Mount Kusa (now Mount Yangming) and a hot springs resort. ww2dbase [Showa | Peito, Taihoku | CPC]

25 Apr 1923 Interactive Map

• USS New Mexico departed Bremerton, Washington, United States for US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [New Mexico | Bremerton, Washington | CPC]

• Lieutenant Commander Walden Ainsworth was relieved as commanding officer of Clemson-class destroyer USS Paul Jones. ww2dbase [Walden Ainsworth | DS]

• Haguro was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Haguro | CPC]

• Hikawa Maru was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | CPC]

• Tatsuta Maru departed Yokohama, Japan on her maiden voyage. ww2dbase [Tatsuta Maru | Yokohama, Kanagawa | CPC]

• USS S-25 arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [S-25/Jastrzab | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• Oswald Mosley's son Michael Mosley was born. ww2dbase [Oswald Mosley | CPC]

• Hitler appointed a prominent German Christian, Ludwig Müller (a former Army chaplain and an enthusiastic National Socialist), as his representative in the drawing up of a new constitution for a unified Reich church. ww2dbase [Adolf Hitler | AC]

25 Apr 1934 Interactive Map

• Prince Nagahisa married Sachiko Tokugawa. ww2dbase [Nagahisa | CPC]

• The French Potez 630 aircraft took its first flight. It would be ultimately be developed into a successful range of fighters, bomber and reconnaissance aircraft seeing much service in German, Vichy and Free French air arms. ww2dbase [Potez 630 | AC]

• The keel of Comandante Cappellini was laid down by the Odero-Terni-Orlando (OTO) Muggiano shipyard in La Spezia, Italy. ww2dbase [Comandante Cappellini | La Spezia, Liguria | CPC]

• The Chinese counter offensive toward Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China reached the outskirts of the city. ww2dbase [Battle of Nanchang | Nanchang, Jiangxi | CPC]

• A new evacuation scheme was introduced in Britain as a Ministry of Health survey showed that only 8% of eligible children had been registered. Later studies revealed that 19% of parents refused to register their children, while 73% of them simply did not respond to the registration. ww2dbase [CPC]
• 3,000 troops of the British 15th Brigade were engaged by 8,500 troops of the German 196th Division at the village of Kvam in Norway, 55 kilometers south of Dombås; despite German numerical advantage and being supported by dive bombers, the British troops held ground and stopped the German advance. Elsewhere, a group of RAF Gladiator aircraft operating on the frozen Lake Lesjaskogsvatnet in Norway was discovered by the Germans. German aircraft bombed the rough airfield on and off for eight hours, destroying 13 aircraft on the ground. Three German He 111 bombers were shot down by RAF aircraft. By the end of the day, Squadron Leader Donaldson ordered the position to be abandoned; the 5 surviving Gladiator aircraft were to be withdrawn to Stetnesmoen. ww2dbase [Invasion of Denmark and Norway | CPC]
• An Irish Republican Army land mine killed 6 in Dublin, Ireland. ww2dbase [CPC]
• US President Roosevelt announced that the United States recognized the state of war between Germany and Norway, and reaffirmed American neutrality in that conflict. To that end, he specifically forbade Norwegian submarines from entering American territorial waters. ww2dbase [Franklin Roosevelt | CPC]
• Wasp (Wasp-class) was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Wasp (Wasp-class) | CPC]

• Franco Pittoni was named the commanding officer of Alpino Bagnolini at Taranto, Italy. ww2dbase [Alpino Bagnolini | Taranto, Apulia | CPC]

• HMS Glorious transferred Gladiator aircraft to airfields on land in Norway. ww2dbase [Invasion of Denmark and Norway | Glorious | AC]

• The 2,470-ton ship Margam Abbey was sunk whilst exiting the Thames Estuary, England, United Kingdom after hitting an aerial laid mine. The ship's bows were blown off and she sank within minutes. ww2dbase [Start of the Battle of the Atlantic | England | HM]

• German submarine U-103 sank Norwegian ship Polyana 200 miles southwest of Cape Verde Islands at 0038 hours, killing the entire crew of 25. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Allied rearguard forces from Thermopylae, Greece traveled 100 miles within 12 hours and reached the Greek capital of Athens around noon time; while crowds welcomed their arrival, diplomats of various countries burned papers as Axis capture was imminent. Just to the south, British troopship Pennland was damaged by German aircraft while attempting to evacuate troops, resulting in 4 deaths; other ships were able to evacuate 5,500 Allied personnel on this day. Out at sea, German aircraft sank 6 merchant ships and 1 yacht; 6 Greek destroyers and 5 submarines were able to escape toward Alexandria, Egypt. Finally, on this date, Hitler issued Führer Directive 28 for the attack on Crete, Greece, which was to be codenamed Operation Merkur. ww2dbase [Balkans Campaign | TH]
• The Axis offensive on the Libyan-Egyptian border resumed despite the lack of progress at Tobruk, Libya; German troops engaged British patrols near Fort Capuzzo. The 2 remaining Hurricane fighters in Tobruk were withdrawn to Egypt to join the mere 13 Hurricane fighters there, leaving Tobruk with only Lysander aircraft to perform artillery spotting duties and no aircraft capable of air defense. Out at sea, British submarine HMS Upholder sank Italian ship Antonietta Lauro off the Tunisian island of Kerkenah. ww2dbase [Siege of Tobruk | CPC]
• German armed merchant cruiser Pinguin attacked British ship Empire Light, stopping the ship. After the 70 crew members were taken off, Pinguin scuttled Empire Light. ww2dbase [Pinguin | CPC]
• The German 8th Panzer Regiment departed Italy in three convoys for North Africa. ww2dbase [Operation Sonnenblume | CPC]
• Franklin Roosevelt called Charles Lindbergh an appeaser in response to Lindbergh's 23 Apr 1941 calls for the United States to stay out of the war. ww2dbase [Franklin Roosevelt | CPC]
• James Lacey, flying a Spitfire fighter, damaged a German Fw 190 aircraft. ww2dbase [James Lacey | AC]
• Konteradmiral Karl Dönitz, the head of the German submarine branch, reiterated Adolf Hitler's orders that incidents with United States vessels must be avoided at all cost. ww2dbase [Karl Dönitz | AC]

• Maggiore Baracca was informed that Allied convoy HG 60 had set sail from Gibraltar. She moved to intercept, but would ultimately fail to locate it. ww2dbase [Maggiore Baracca | CPC]
• Alessandro Malaspina lost sight of the merchant ship in the Atlantic Ocean at 0732 hours; she had been pursuing this target since 2207 hours on the previous date. ww2dbase [Alessandro Malaspina | CPC]

• Morosini departed Bordeaux, France at 0636 hours, arriving at Le Verdon-sur-Mer, France at 1155 hours. At 1307, she set sail to the sea for gyro compass trials, returning at 1508 hours. ww2dbase [Morosini | Bordeaux, Aquitaine | CPC]

• Tanikaze was commissioned into service with Commander Motoi Katsumi in command. ww2dbase [Tanikaze | CPC]

• An indication that the Germans were considering Crete, Greece as a target for major parachute assault was discovered by the code-breakers at the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park in Britain through an interception of the German Luftwaffe's lax cypher discipline. ww2dbase [Balkans Campaign | Bletchley Park | Milton Keynes, England | AC]

25 Apr 1941 Interactive Map

• USS Enterprise arrived at Pearl Harbor after conducting the Doolittle Raid. ww2dbase [Enterprise | CPC]
• USS Hornet arrived at Pearl Harbor after conducting the Doolittle Raid. ww2dbase [Hornet (Yorktown-class) | CPC]
• Tatsuta Maru departed Davao, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Tatsuta Maru | CPC]
• Destroyer Yukikaze arrived at Davao, Mindanao, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Yukikaze | CPC]
• German submarine U-108 sank British ship Modesta 110 miles northwest of Bermuda at 0831 hours; 18 were killed, 23 survived. ww2dbase [Second Happy Time | CPC]

• 27 Japanese bombers, escorted by 15 fighters, attacked the airfield near Darwin, Australia; fighters of the US 49th Pursuit Group, flying P-40 Warhawk fighters, shot down 10 bombers and 2 fighters without any losses. ww2dbase [Darwin, Northern Territory | CPC]

• Four B-17E Flying Fortress bombers of US 30th Bomb Squadron were launched from Seven Mile airfield near Port Moresby, Australian Papua at 0300 hours to attack Rabaul, New Britain; one of them would ran off the runway in the darkness and became stuck in thick mud, while another crashed into Mount Obree. At 0800 hours, Zero fighters attacked Seven Mile and destroyed the stuck bomber. ww2dbase [Port Moresby | CPC]

• Alexander, Slim, and Stilwell met at Kyaukse, Burma, 25 miles south of Mandalay. It was decided that all Allied troops were to be pulled out of Burma, but Slim demanded that no British nor Indian units would be withdrawn to China even if the Chinese border was closer to that of India's. Meanwhile, Japanese and Chinese troops clashed at Loilem, central Burma. ww2dbase [Invasion of Burma | Kyaukse | CPC]

• Shokaku arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Shokaku | Truk | CPC]
• Chuichi Hara arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Chuichi Hara | Truk | CPC]
• Yugure arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Yugure | Truk | CPC]

• Troops of the Japanese 22nd Infantry Division began to conduct a search in Zhejiang and Jiangxi Provinces on the Chinese coast, burning down and massacring entire villages suspected of assisting the Doolittle Raiders. ww2dbase [Doolittle Raid | CPC]

• Alpino Bagnolini arrived at La Pallice, La Rochelle, France at 0813 hours. ww2dbase [Alpino Bagnolini | La Rochelle, Poitou-Charentes | CPC]
• Comandante Cappellini departed La Pallice, La Rochelle, France at 1000 hours for trials, returning at 1336 hours. ww2dbase [Comandante Cappellini | La Rochelle, Poitou-Charentes | CPC]

• 110 British bombers attacked Rostock, Germany for the third night in a row, causing damage in the town and the nearby Heinkel aircraft factory. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Rostock, Mecklenburg | CPC]
• Karl von Le Suire was awarded the German Cross in Gold. ww2dbase [Karl von Le Suire | CPC]

• USS Nashville arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Nashville | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• Various Italian naval units began departing Italy by road to Vienna, Austria for the ultimate destination the Black Sea via the Danube River. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Captain Taijiro Aoki relieved Captain Hasegawa as the commanding officer of carrier Akagi. ww2dbase [Akagi | CPC]
• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Yokosuka, Japan for her third voyage for the Japanese Navy. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]
• Nachi arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. ww2dbase [Nachi | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]
• Lieutenant Commander Shohei Matsumoto was named the commanding officer of Kamikaze, relieving Lieutenant Commander Kanematsu Hashimoto. ww2dbase [Kamikaze | CPC]

• Hans-Joachim Marseille shot down two fighters north of Ain el Gazala, Libya, first piloted by Squadron Leader Osgood Hanbury (his 53rd kill) and the second piloted by Sergeant Wareham (his 54th kill). ww2dbase [Hans-Joachim Marseille | Gazala | CPC]

• The final US-Filipino stronghold on the island of Luzon in the Philippine Islands, Corregidor, while already under daily bombardment for the past two weeks, began to be subjected to night-time bombardment as well. At 2200 hours, two 240-millimeter shells hit the opening of a tunnel leading into the underground command center, killing 15. ww2dbase [Invasion of the Philippine Islands | Malinta Tunnel | Corregidor, Cavite | CPC]
• USS Spearfish torpedoed the 7,000-ton Japanese freighter Toba Maru north of the Lingayen Gulf in the Philippine Islands. The freighter was damaged so severely that she took no more part in the war. ww2dbase [Spearfish | CPC]

• The large group of Polish artists and actors arrested in Krakow, Poland were put on a transport for Auschwitz Concentration Camp. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Krakow | CPC]

• Luftwaffe aircraft conducted a raid on Bath, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Battle of Britain | Bath, England | TH]

25 Apr 1942 Interactive Map

• Admiral Mineichi Koga arrived aboard Yamato for an inspection tour; he arrived to become the new Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet, but that fact would be kept secret until the news of Yamamoto's death was to be made public next month. ww2dbase [Yamato | CPC]
• Commanding officer of the Chinese 5th Army defected to the Japanese. ww2dbase [CPC]
• USS Snook sank a Japanese or Chinese sampan with her deck gun off China. ww2dbase [Snook | CPC]
• Commander Shinichirou Maeda was made the commanding officer of Tanikaze. ww2dbase [Tanikaze | CPC]
• Frederick Aikman shot down a German Bf 109G aircraft. ww2dbase [Frederick Aikman | CPC]

• USS Grayback departed Brisbane, Australia for her seventh war patrol. ww2dbase [Grayback | Brisbane, Queensland | CPC]

• US Navy squadrons VF-26, VF-27, and VF-28, all equipped with F4F fighters, were transferred out of Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Henderson Field | Lunga Point, Guadalcanal | CPC]

• Repair ship Akashi began repairing cruiser Aoba at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Akashi | Truk | CPC]

• Leonardo da Vinci hit British tanker Doryssa, en route from Cape Town, South Africa to Abadan, Iran, with a torpedo in the Indian Ocean at 1726 hours. At 1845 hours, a second torpedo hit her. Shortly after, Leonardo da Vinci closed in and sank the tanker with gunfire. 53 were killed, and the 11 survivors were picked up by British whaler HMSAS Southern Barrier five days later. Having expended all torpedoes, the Italian submarine began her journey back to Bordeaux, France. ww2dbase [Raids into the Indian Ocean | Leonardo da Vinci | CPC]

• Naka departed Yokosuka, Japan. ww2dbase [Naka | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]

• Jürgen Stroop reported that 27,464 Jews had been captured in the Jewish ghetto of Warsaw, Poland. ww2dbase [Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | Jürgen Stroop | Warsaw | CPC]

• USS Wahoo declared her readiness for a war patrol while at Midway Atoll. ww2dbase [Midway Bases | Wahoo | Midway | CPC]
• USS Wahoo departed Midway Atoll for her fifth war patrol. ww2dbase [Midway Bases | Wahoo | Midway | CPC]

25 Apr 1943 Interactive Map

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Saipan. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | CPC]
• The Emsland concentration camps in Germany established the Kommandos Nord (Department North), which began to construct concentration camps in Norway north of the Arctic Circle; 1,404 prisoners were transferred there when completed. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
• Australian troops captured Madang, New Guinea. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | CPC]
• Anglo-Indian troops attacked Ningthoukhong, India. ww2dbase [Battle of Imphal-Kohima | CPC]
• USS Bailey joined an anti-submarine hunter-killer group centered around escort carrier USS Kalinin Bay. The group departed Majuro for anti-submarine patrols around Maloelap Atoll, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Bailey | DS]
• USS Nicholas arrived at Buna, New Guinea. ww2dbase [Nicholas | DS]

• Captain Charles E. Coney relieved Captain Herman A. Spanagel as the commanding officer of the cruiser USS Nashville. ww2dbase [Nashville | Seeadler Harbor, Manus, Admiralty Islands | DS]

• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against aircraft facilities at Nancy, France but could not drop their bombs because a lower flying squadron flew under them at the drop zone. ww2dbase [Bombing of Cities in France and Low Countries | RAF Thurleigh | Nancy | DS]

• Adolf Hitler made his last major public appearance at Hans-Valentin Hube's funeral in Berlin, Germany. ww2dbase [Adolf Hitler | Berlin | TH]

• Landing ship No. 106 was launched. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]

• While transiting from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii to Alameda, California, a sailor on Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Sargent Bay was washed overboard during a storm at sea. An hour-long search revealed nothing. ww2dbase [Sargent Bay | DS]

• Kamoi entered dock No. 1 at Singapore for repairs. ww2dbase [Kamoi | Singapore | CPC]

• George Patton was at a welcome club in Knutsford, England, United Kingdom as the guest of honor. Learning that his visit was supposed to be unofficial, he freely spoke of a post-war world in which the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union would together rule the world. A reporter carelessly missed writing down the Soviet Union, thus when the story was published several days later, it appeared as if Patton was disrespecting the Soviet Union. ww2dbase [George Patton | Knutsford, England | CPC]
• American forces conducted marshalling and embarkation drills at Slapton, Devonshire, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Exercise Tiger | Slapton, England | CPC]

• USS Mississippi arrived at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard for an overhaul. ww2dbase [Puget Sound Navy Yard | Mississippi | Bremerton, Washington | DS]
• USS Skipjack arrived at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California ww2dbase [Mare Island Navy Yard | Skipjack | Vallejo, California | DS]

25 Apr 1944 Interactive Map

• USS Cod sank Japanese minesweeper W-41. ww2dbase [Cod | CPC]
• Finland reported all German troops were now out of its boundaries, which was 10 days later than the Soviet demand. ww2dbase [TH]
• US Third Army crossed the Danube River in southern Germany. ww2dbase [TH]
• British bombers attacked Berchtesgaden, Germany. The US 8th Air Force conducted its last heavy bomber raid on Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | TH]
• Benito Mussolini fled to Como, Italy. ww2dbase [Benito Mussolini | CPC]
• US Army Colonel George Lynch addressed German civilians at Gardelegen, Saxony, Germany regarding the massacre of 1,016 political and military prisoners that took place nearby on 13 Apr 1945. ww2dbase [CPC]

• USAAF B-24 bombers attacked Japanese shipping at Saigon, Indochina, sinking one transport. ww2dbase [Saigon, Cochinchine | CPC]

• When units of Soviet 1st Byelorussian and 1st Ukrainian Fronts met near Kietzen, completing the encirclement of Berlin, Germany. German III.SS-Panzer Korps attempted to break this newly formed encirclement in failure. About 70 kilometers to the south, American and Soviet troops met at Torgau. ww2dbase [Battle of Berlin | Berlin | TH]
• Adolf Galland announced to the pilots of German Jagdverband 44 at München (Munich), Germany that the war was effectively lost, and he would only accept volunteers to continue fighting from now on. All of his men stepped forward as volunteers. ww2dbase [Adolf Galland | München, München-Oberbayern | CPC]
• Robert von Greim arrived at Gatow, Berlin, Germany. ww2dbase [Robert von Greim | Berlin | CPC]
• 1st Lieutenant William B. Hoelscher, flying a flak-damaged P-51D fighter, pursued and claimed to have shot down the Me 262 jet fighter flown by Leutnant Sepp Huber at 0800 hours; the victory would not be credited. Unable to fly his damaged fighter home, Hoelscher crash landed in occupied Czechoslovakia and was assisted by locals until he made contact with personnel of US 14th Armored Division at Pilsen on 7 May 1945. ww2dbase [CPC]

• US 34th Infantry Division occupied Parma, Italy, which had recently been liberated by Italian partisan fighters. ww2dbase [Battles of Collecchio and Fornovo di Taro | Parma, Emilia-Romagna | CPC]
• British V Corps crossed the Po River in northern Italy. ww2dbase [Operation Grapeshot and Operation Roast | CPC]
• Many Italian motor torpedo boats were destroyed to prevent Allied capture. ww2dbase [CPC]

• USS Shangri-La launched her first strike. Her aircraft attacked Okidaitojima of the Daito Islands 400 kilometers east of Okinawa Island, destroying radar and communications stations. ww2dbase [Shangri-La | Okidaitojima, Okinawa | CPC]
• At 0900 hours, officers of Japanese Submarine Squadron 1 (Nobukiyo Nambu, Toshio Kusaka, Tsuruzo Shimizu, and Katsuo Ohashi) and 631st Naval Air Group (Lieutenant Commander Masayoshi Fukunaga, Atsugi Asamura, and Kazuo Takahashi) met to discuss plans for an attack on the Panama Canal. They were joined by officers from the Naval General Staff from Tokyo, Japan (Commander Shojiro Iura and Commander Yasuo Fujimori). ww2dbase [Nobukiyo Nambu | CPC]

• USS Spot shelled Japanese facilities on Soheugsan island, Korea in the Yellow Sea, destroying or damaging a radio station, oil storage facilities, and barracks. ww2dbase [Spot | Soheugsan-do | CPC]

• Shalva Loladze was killed in combat on Texel, the Netherlands. ww2dbase [Shalva Loladze | Texel, Noord-Holland | CPC]

• Destroyer USS Shaw departed San Pedro Bay, Leyte bound for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ww2dbase [Shaw | San Pedro Bay, Leyte | DS]

• Graf Zeppelin was scuttled with demolition charges at Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland) at 1800 hours to prevent Soviet capture. ww2dbase [Graf Zeppelin | Szczecin | CPC]

• Allied convoy JW-66 arrived at the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Murmansk | CPC]

• Representatives from 46 nations met in San Francisco, California, United States for the United Nations Conference on International Organization. ww2dbase [San Francisco, California | CPC]
• USS Kimberly arrived at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States. ww2dbase [Mare Island Navy Yard | Kimberly | Vallejo, California | CPC]
• USS R-14 departed Key West, Florida, United States. ww2dbase [R-14 | Key West, Florida | CPC]
• HRH Prince Faisal Ibn Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia and his party came aboard the tanker Tamalpais and sat for lunch during a tour of the Marinship yard. ww2dbase [Marinship Shipbuilding | Tamalpais | Sausalito, California | DS]

• Gato-class submarine USS Silversides departed Midway bound for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ww2dbase [Silversides | Midway | DS]

25 Apr 1945 Interactive Map

• USS Tamalpais departed Hong Kong bound for the United States. ww2dbase [Tamalpais | DS]

• In Hong Kong, a war crimes court presided by Lieutenant-Colonel J. C. Stewart found Lieutenant Yasuo Kishi, Lieutenant Chozaburo Matsumoto, and Sergeant Major Hiroshi Uchida guilty of war crimes committed against civilians at Mui Wo, Lantau Island, Hong Kong between 19 Aug and 27 Aug 1945; they were sentenced to death by hanging. 10 others were also found guilty and given prison terms ranging from 2 years to 10 years. 3 of the defendants were acquitted. ww2dbase [Tokyo Trial and Other Trials Against Japan | CPC]

• USS Barbero was decommissioned and placed in reserve while still in commission. ww2dbase [Barbero | CPC]
• Ensign Russell Dudley was made the commanding officer of decommissioned destroyer DD-224. ww2dbase [Stewart | Oakland, California | CPC]

• Hisao Tani's appeal against his death sentence was rejected by Chiang Kaishek. ww2dbase [Hisao Tani | CPC]

• Francis Tuker retired from military service. ww2dbase [Francis Tuker | CPC]

• Douglas MacArthur spoke to a crowd at Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois, United States. ww2dbase [Douglas MacArthur | Chicago, Illinois | CPC]

25 Apr 1951 Interactive Map

• Wei Lihuang met with Mao Zedong in Beijing, China. ww2dbase [Wei Lihuang | Beijing | CPC]

• USS Archerfish departed Key West, Florida, United States. ww2dbase [Archerfish | Key West, Florida | CPC]

25 Apr 1955 Interactive Map

• Daniel James, Jr. was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. ww2dbase [Daniel James | CPC]

• USS Ticonderoga ended a tour in Asian waters. ww2dbase [Ticonderoga | CPC]

• Frank Fletcher passed away. ww2dbase [Frank Fletcher | CPC]

• Rupert Lonsdale passed away. ww2dbase [Rupert Lonsdale | CPC]

• The senate of Iowa, United States passed a resolution to support battleship Iowa remaining at Mare Island, California, United States as a museum ship. ww2dbase [Iowa | Des Moines, Iowa | CPC]

25 Apr 2009 Interactive Map