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• US forces engaged Japanese troops in Manila, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• Soviet troops captured Landsberg, Germany. ww2dbase [TH]
• The Soviet State Defense Committee (GKO) ordered all German males between the ages of 17 and 50 in Soviet-occupied territories to be deported to the Soviet Union as forced laborers. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Frank Messervy ordered his Indian 4th Corps to attack Chauk and Pagan, Burma. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Judge Roland Friesler, the fanatical Nazi who condemned to death the July plotters against Hitler, was killed during an air raid on Berlin, Germany. ww2dbase [AC]
• BBC war correspondent Guy Byam was killed when the Flying Fortress bomber in which he was reporting on a daylight raid on Berlin, Germany was shot down. ww2dbase [AC]

• USS Tunny departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her eighth war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

• Allied convoy JW-64 departed Clyde, Scotland, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

3 Feb 1945 Interactive Map