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• Aircraft of Air Group 80 flew training missions while its mothership USS Hancock sailed toward Japan. ww2dbase [Hancock | DS]
• British and Canadian forces captured Kleve, Germany. ww2dbase [Advance to the Rhine | TH]
• The Yalta Agreement was publicly announced nearly simultaneously in Moscow, Russia and London, England, United Kingdom regarding the handling of Germany after the war. ww2dbase [Yalta Conference | TH]
• Peru declared war on Germany and Japan. ww2dbase [AC]
• USS Croaker arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her third war patrol. ww2dbase [Croaker | CPC]
• Wilhelm Keitel ordered all deserters to be shot. ww2dbase [Wilhelm Keitel | CPC]

• Indian 20th Division crossed the Irrawady River at Myinmu, Burma. ww2dbase [Battle of Meiktila-Mandalay | Myinmu | CPC]

• 14 P-51 fighters of US 14th Army Air Force strafed Minggugong Airfield in Nanjing, China. ww2dbase [Minggugong Airfield | Nanjing | CPC]

• Richard Kauder, a German military intelligence officer stationed in Budapest, Hungary, was arrested for suspicion of planning an escape to Switzerland as he was caught leaving the city with cash, jewelry, and his stamp collection. ww2dbase [Budapest | CPC]

• Submarine I-369 departed Yokosuka, Japan with supplies for Chichi Jima, Japan. ww2dbase [I-369 | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]

• Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Steamer Bay arrived in the waters around Saipan and Tinian, Mariana Islands to begin rehearsal exercises in advance of the Iwo Jima operations. ww2dbase [Steamer Bay | DS]

• Destroyer USS Shaw departed the Nasugbu, Luzon area bound for San Pedro Bay, Leyte Gulf, Leyte. ww2dbase [Shaw | Nasugbu, Luzon | DS]

• Bomb explosion attributed to a Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb was followed by a small ground fire near Hardin, Montana, United States. The fire was quickly extinguished. Three other Japanese incendiary bombs also went off near Riverdale, Montana on the other side of the state. ww2dbase [Hardin, Montana | DS]
• Two unexploded incendiary bombs from a Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb were found 7 miles north of Spokane, Washington, United States. It was believed the bombs did not fall from a great height as the paint on the bombs was unmarred. ww2dbase [Spokane, Washington | DS]
• Bomb explosion attributed to a Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb was followed by a small ground fire near Hardin, Montana, United States. The fire was quickly extinguished. Three other Japanese incendiary bombs also went off near Riverdale, Montana on the other side of the state. ww2dbase [Fu-Go | Hardin, Montana | DS]
• The envelope and 2 incendiary bombs from a Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb were found near Burwell, Nebraska, United States. ww2dbase [Fu-Go | Burwell, Nebraska | DS]

• Gato-class submarine USS Silversides arrived at Midway at the conclusion of her twelfth war patrol. ww2dbase [Silversides | Midway | DS]

12 Feb 1945 Interactive Map