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• USS Caiman arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her first war patrol. ww2dbase [Caiman | CPC]
• Four squadrons of Spitfire fighters of the RAF, carrying bombs, knocked out a German liquid oxygen rocket fuel factory at Alblasserdam in the Netherlands. ww2dbase [CPC]
• The remnants of the German 4th Panzer Army successfully fled to the Oder River in eastern Germany. ww2dbase [Vistula-Oder Offensive | CPC]
• By this date, all Japanese troops in Yunnan Province, China were pushed to the Burma side of the Sino-Burmese border. ww2dbase [Salween Offensive | CPC]
• USS Sennet attacked a Japanese patrol boat off the Bonin Islands; the single torpedo missed. ww2dbase [Sennet | CPC]

• Indian 20th Division captured Monywa, Burma on the Chindwin River and reached the Irrawady River at Myinmu. ww2dbase [Battle of Meiktila-Mandalay | Monywa | CPC]
• Anglo-Indian troops began assaulting Kangaw, Burma. Meanwhile, off the coast, additional troops were disembarked on Ramree Island and Royal Marine commandos landed at Daingbon Chaung on the coast. ww2dbase [Third Battle of Arakan | Kangaw | CPC]

• USS Barb, acting on information shared by Sino-American Special Technical Cooperative Organization (SACO), continued to pursue a Japanese convoy up the coast of China. When it entered into a bay near Nanguan Island ("Namkwan harbor") on the southern border of Zhejiang Province, Commander Eugene Fluckey checked in with Sino-American Special Technical Cooperative Organization (SACO), which reported no known minefield. ww2dbase [Barb | Nanguan, Zhejiang | CPC]

• Soviet forces captured Allenstein and Insterburg in Ostpreußen (East Prussia), Germany. ww2dbase [East Prussian Offensive | Ostpreußen | TH]
• The keel of U-3052 was laid down on Slip V of AG Weser shipyard in Bremen, Germany. ww2dbase [U-3052 | Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG | Bremen, Weser-Ems | CPC]

• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) launched raids on Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands. ww2dbase [Philippines Campaign, Phase 2 | Yorktown (Essex-class) | Okinawa | DS]

• USS New Mexico departed Lingayen Gulf, philippine Islands. ww2dbase [New Mexico | Lingayen Gulf | CPC]

• Joseph Stilwell arrived in the United States. ww2dbase [Joseph Stilwell | CPC]
• Escort carrier USS Card arrived at the Philadelphia Navy Yard for an extensive overhaul. ww2dbase [Philadelphia Navy Yard | Card | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | DS]

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