24 Feb 1945




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- USS Trepang sank freighter Usuki Maru and damaged another ship, and then survived a seven-hour depth charge barrage by multiple Japanese anti-submarine vessels. ww2dbase [Trepang | CPC]
- USS Wake Island launched 55 spotting sorties 56 kilometers south of Iwo Jima, Japan; 205 rockets were fired on targets of opportunity. ww2dbase [Wake Island | CPC]
- Soviet 1st Baltic Front was disbanded; its units were merged into Soviet 3rd Byelorussian Front. ww2dbase [CPC]
- USS Spot departed for her second war patrol. ww2dbase [Spot | CPC]
- Ivan Konev declared the Lower Silesian Offensive a success. ww2dbase [Silesian Offensive and the Siege of Breslau | CPC]
- Indian 2nd Division crossed the Irrawady River at Ngazumi, Burma and met heavy Japanese resistance. ww2dbase [Battle of Meiktila-Mandalay | Ngazumi | CPC]
- The Soviet bridgehead over the Danube River at Hron, Slovakia was destroyed by a German attack. ww2dbase [Hron | TH]
- Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha was assassinated at parliament by 28-year-old Mustafa Essawy in the parliament building after reading a declaration of war against the Axis Powers. ww2dbase [Cairo | CPC]
- Adolf Hitler made what was to be his last speech to Reischsleiters and Gauleiters in the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany. ww2dbase [Reich Chancellery | Adolf Hitler | Berlin | TH]
- Soviet troops attacked toward the eastern Pommern region of Germany (occupied Poland). ww2dbase [East Pomeranian Offensive | Pommern | CPC]
- The 1,918-ton German freighter Ellen Larsen was beached after striking a mine at Warnemünde, on the Baltic coast near Rostock, Germany. ww2dbase [Warnemünde, Mecklenburg | HM]
- The keel of U-3061 was laid down on Building Ways IV at the Deschimag shipyard in Bremen, Germany. ww2dbase [Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG | U-3061 | Bremen, Weser-Ems | CPC]
- The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against oil facilities in Hamburg, Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | RAF Thurleigh | Hamburg | DS]
- During the night of 24-25 Feb, 174 American B-29 bombers dropped incendiary bombs on Tokyo, Japan and destroyed about 3 square kilometers of the city, or about 28,000 buildings. ww2dbase [Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities | Tokyo | CPC]
- USS Wasp's aircraft launched to attack targets in the Nagoya, Japan area, but the mission was canceled due to poor weather. ww2dbase [Wasp (Essex-class) | Nagoya, Aichi | CPC]
- Patrol Boat No. 102 exited Drydock No. 4 at Kure, Hiroshima, Japan. ww2dbase [Kure Naval Arsenal | Stewart | Kure, Hiroshima | CPC]
- Otoemon Hiroeda committed suicide with his sidearm in Manila, Philippines. ww2dbase [Otoemon Hiroeda | Manila | CPC]
- US bombers attacked Penang, Malaya. ww2dbase [Penang | CPC]
- Kamoi departed Singapore. ww2dbase [Kamoi | Singapore | CPC]
- Major Geoffrey Hutchinson, Member of Parliament representing Ilford in London, England, United Kingdom, wrote to the Secretary for Air for assistance with recent German rocket attacks on Ilford. This letter yielded no significant results. ww2dbase [London, England | CPC]
- USS Pollack arrived at New London, Connecticut, United States. ww2dbase [Pollack | New London, Connecticut | CPC]




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