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• USS Astoria's crew found out the task force was en route to attack Tokyo, Japan; the carrier fleet USS Astoria was escorting was to launch attack planes on the following day. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Kamikaze was detached from Operation Kita and was ordered to set sail for Singapore. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]
• The Ohka Model 22 variant design efforts began. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Rear Admiral Zensuke Kanome was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Navy 12th Air Fleet. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Soviet 3rd Guards Tank Army and Soviet 4th Tank Army surrounded Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland). ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Gabilan arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her fourth war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Boarfish arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her first war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• The 5,095-ton German ship MRS.11, built in 1935 and owned by Norddeutscher-Lloyd, struck a mine and sank off Swinemünde, Germany (now Swinoujscie, Poland). ww2dbase [HM]

• German 11.SS-Armee launched Operation Sonnenwende in Pommern, Germany, although only III.SS-Panzer Korps started the attack on time. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]

• USS Ancon departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for Eniwetok, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Landing ship No. 173 was launched. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Portland entered Manila Bay, Luzon, Philippines, to support the landings to take place on Corregidor the following day. ww2dbase [Main Article | DS]
• Japanese Shinyo explosive motor-boats sank three American LCS(L) armoured support craft at Mariveles Harbour, Bataan, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | AC]

• Allied convoy JW-64 arrived at the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• The Takao Prisoners of War Camp near Takao (now Kaohsiung), Taiwan was closed; the prisoners were transported to Fukuoka, Japan in the preceding several weeks. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Takao Naval Air Group was dissolved at Takao Guard District in southern Taiwan. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• The 2,628-ton Dutch tanker Liseta (Captain P. Buisman) was lost while searching for an anchoring place at Margate on the coast of Kent, England, United Kingdom. Most of the crew were saved by the destroyer HMS Holderness (L 48), but 16 were killed in the engine room where the torpedo struck. Later, part of the wreck was blown off during salvage in order to lift her. When the Liseta was lifted, she was repaired and put back into service. She was sold for scrap in Hong Kong in 1957. The tanker was reported as sunk by the German midget Seehund-type submarine U-5332, but the submarine did not report any attacks on this date. ww2dbase [HM, CPC]

• USS Ticonderoga arrived at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Washington, United States for extensive repairs. ww2dbase [Main Article | DS]

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