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• Light carrier Hosho arrived at Tokuyama, Japan, refueled, and departed to conduct a training exercise as a target vessel. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]
• Commander Jacob Wilson Waterhouse relieved Commander Hinton A. Owens as the commanding officer of USS Luce. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Warspite was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Sea Cat departed Guam, Mariana Islands for her second war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• US First Army captured Remscheid in Germany, east of Düsseldorf. On the same day, US Seventh Army reached the Moder River and the Siegfried Line/Westwall. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• Küstrin, Germany, surrounded by Soviet troops, was declared a Fortress City. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• British fighter ace Robert Roland Stanford Tuck, shot down and captured on 28 Jan 1942, escaped from his prisoner of war camp, subsequently making his way through the Russian lines to the British Embassy in Moscow and then home. ww2dbase [AC]

• Bulgarian People's Court found Dobri Bozhilov guilty of being a traitor to Bulgaria and sentenced him to death. The execution was carried out later on the same day. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Bulgarian People's Court found Bogdan Filov guilty of being a traitor to Bulgaria and sentenced him to death. The execution was carried out later on the same day. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• In the brutal battle around Hill 170 and Kangaw ridge in Arakan, Burma, British Army Lieutenant George Knowland of the Royal Norfolk Regiment serving with No. 1 Commando with twenty-four men heroically held off a heavy assault by at least 300 fanatical Japanese, killing many of the enemy virtually single-handedly, before a bullet struck him and he was killed. For his outstanding valour Lieutenant Knowland was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. ww2dbase [AC]

• Captain Thomas Howell Binford was named the commanding officer of USS Miami while the ship was at sea south of Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• The Taiwan District Army was formed within the Japanese Tenth Area Army with the former commanding officer General Rikichi Ando of the former Taiwan Army at its head. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Segundo departed Guam, Mariana Islands for her third war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

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