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• German judge Roland Freisler found Helmuth von Moltke guilty of treason for his works on post-Nazi democracy, and sentenced him to death. ww2dbase [Helmuth von Moltke | CPC]
• USS Puffer fired 2 torpedoes at a Japanese patrol vessel in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan; both torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Puffer | CPC]
• USS Parche attacked a Japanese gunboat east of Taiwan with her deck gun, causing no damage. ww2dbase [Parche | CPC]

• British forces captured La Roche-en-Ardenne, Belgium, northwest of Bastogne. ww2dbase [Battle of the Bulge | La Roche-en-Ardenne | TH]

• S-13 departed Porkkala Naval Base in Porkkalanniemi, Finland. ww2dbase [Alexander Marinesko | Porkkalanniemi | CPC]

• General Ronald Scobie signed a truce between the land forces of Greece and the Central Committee of the E.L.A.S. in Athens, Greece. The truce specified a cessation of hostilities from 14 Jan 1945. ww2dbase [Athens | AC]

• Tatsunosuke Ariizumi met with the officers of Japanese Navy 631st Naval Air Group for the first time. ww2dbase [Tatsunosuke Ariizumi | CPC]

• US Task Force 38 in the South China Sea received orders to bombard a Japanese position on the Cam Ranh Bay in Indochina on the next day. ww2dbase [Raid into the South China Sea | South China Sea | CPC]
• USS Spot sank a small Japanese freighter with her deck gun in the East China Sea 150 kilometers southeast of Shanghai, China. ww2dbase [Spot | East China Sea | CPC]
• Submarine USS Spearfish made contact with a 100-foot sampan 100 miles southwest of Minami Jima. The vessel was seemingly abandoned and adrift so Spearfish attempted to sink it with 20mm gunfire. Five Japanese who had been hiding appeared and three allowed themselves to be rescued; two remained with the sampan's wreckage after the vessel sank. The USAAF passengers volunteered to guard the prisoners. ww2dbase [Spearfish | DS]

• Allied convoy RA-63 departed the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Murmansk | CPC]
• Lavrentiy Beria was named the head of a new effort to coordinate the operations of NKVD, NKGB, and SMERSH, thus gaining partial control of all Soviet counterintelligence agencies. ww2dbase [Lavrentiy Beria | Moscow | CPC]
• Soviet NKVD Directorate for Prisoners of War and Interned Persons (UPVI) was upgraded to the status of a main directorate (GUPVI); Ivan Petrov was named its new chief. ww2dbase [CPC]

• B-29 bombers of US 20th Air Force attacked Penang, Malaya. ww2dbase [Penang | CPC]

• The American coastal minesweeper YMS-14 was sunk as a result of a collision with the destroyer USS Hemdon in the north channel of Boston Harbour, Massachusetts, United States. ww2dbase [Boston, Massachusetts | AC]

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