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• US forces engaged Japanese troops in Manila, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Philippines Campaign, Phase 2 | 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 [Battle of Meiktila-Mandalay | CPC]

• USAAF B-17 Fortress bombers dropped Disney Bombs on the recently captured Watten Bunker near Watten, France as a test of the new bomb design. ww2dbase [Disney | Watten, Nord | DS]

• 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 [Berlin | 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 [Berlin | AC]
• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against Berlin, Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | RAF Thurleigh | Berlin | DS]

• USS Tunny departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her eighth war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Tunny | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• Togo arrived at Gotenhafen, Germany (occupied Gdynia, Poland). ww2dbase [East Prussian Offensive | Togo / Coronel | Gdynia, Pomorskie | CPC]

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

• While USS Honolulu was in drydock at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Captain Olin Scoggins was relieved as commanding officer of the ship and Commander Theodore Ascherfeld assumed command. ww2dbase [Honolulu | Portsmouth, Virginia | DS]

3 Feb 1945 Interactive Map