15 Jan 1945




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- German report noted that the total number of prisoners in concentration camps was 714,211; there were about 40,000 guards at the camps. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- 36 US Navy F4U fighters and several New Zealand fighters took off from Green Islands east of Australian Papua and attacked the Toboi wharf area of Rabaul, New Britain and the nearby floatplane anchorage. 7 aircraft were lost to poor weather en route back to Green Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- Libelle was renamed Jagd. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- Adolf Hitler ordered Panzerkorps Grossdeutschland to move from East Prussia, Germany to Poland to counter the Soviet Vistula-Oder Offensive. This counterattack would be repulsed by the Soviet 1st Byelorussian Front. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- Adolf Hitler departed the Adlerhorst headquarters in Wetterau, Germany, returning to Berlin. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- Roza Shanina reached Eydtkuhnen, Ostpreußen (East Prussia), Germany (now Chernyshevskoye, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia). ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- USS Whale arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her tenth war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]
- Allied aircraft attacked Japanese shipping in Hong Kong. ww2dbase [CPC]
- USS Sunfish departed Majuro, Marshall Islands for her tenth war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- USS Ticonderoga launched Air Group 80 aircraft for strikes on Taiwan, hitting Kaneka Soda Company chemical plant (mis-identified as a magnesium plant) in Tainan, among other targets. 1 aircraft was lost on this day. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | DS, CPC]
- USS Yorktown (Essex-class) launched raids on Formosa (Taiwan) and Canton (Guangzhou) in China. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | DS]
- The Inrin Temporary Prisoners of War Camp in central Taiwan was closed. ww2dbase [CPC]
- German V-2 rocket hit Rainham, London, England, United Kingdom at about 2345, killing 14 and seriously injuring 4. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | CPC]
- USS Iowa arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]




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