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• USS Caiman departed Fremantle, Australia for her second war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Guitarro sank a Japanese transport, hitting her with all of the three torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Soviet troops encircled Graudenz, East Prussia, Germany (now Grudziadz, Poland). ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]

• The German Operation Sonnenwende offensive in Pommern, Germany was halted by Soviet resistance. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• Folke Bernadotte met Heinrich Himmler at the SS Hohenlychen sanatorium in Lychen, Germany to discuss the release of Scandinavian Jews from concentration camps and Germany's separate peace with the Western Allies. They would not reach any agreement. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) bombed and strafed installations on Chichi Jima, Bonin Islands ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | DS]

• Ivan Serov, head counterintelligence chief of Soviet 1st Byelorussian Front, ordered every German in Poland to be arrested. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Semyon Timoshenko was awarded the Order of Lenin for the third time. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

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