16 Feb 1945




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- USS Sargent Bay set sail for Iwo Jima, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- USS Sennet sank Japanese minelayer Nariu south of Japan, hitting her with 2 of 3 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- USS Wake Island arrived 49 miles southwest of Iwo Jima, Japan and provided spotter aircraft for the battleship gun crews for the next three days. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- On Luzon, Philippine Islands, American troops captured the Bataan Peninsula while paratroopers assaulted the island of Corregidor at the tip of the peninsula. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
- US 83rd Infantry Division became part of the XIX Corps of the Ninth Army of US 12th Army Group. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Indian 17th Division began crossing the Irrawady River in Burma. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- USS Shamrock Bay departed Ulithi, Caroline Islands as a part of Task Unit 50.8.25 in support of the invasion of Iwo Jima, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- German 39.Panzer Korps and 10.SS-Panzer Korps began their parts of Operation Sonnenwende in Pommern, Germany. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
- USS Yorktown (Essex-class) and TF58 strike the Tokyo area of Honshu, Japan in the first carrier-borne air strikes against the Japanese home islands since the Doolittle Raid on 18 Apr 1942. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | DS]
- Air Group 80 flew 6 strikes fighter squadron 80 flew 1 strike against Tokyo, Japan (both groups from USS Hancock); 3 men and 3 aircraft were lost. ww2dbase [Main Article | DS]
- USS Wasp's aircraft conducted a fighter sweep over Japan; several fighters were lost in the ensuing engagement. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- German V-2 rocket hit Crownford Road in Leyton, London, England, United Kingdom at 2345 hours, killing 25 and seriously injuring 10. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | CPC]
- USS Parche received fuel at Midway Atoll. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]




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