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• USS Hoe sank Japanese convoy escort ship Shinan with 1 of 4 torpedoes fired from periscope depth. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• US 3rd Armored Division used M26 Pershing heavy tanks in combat for the first time near the Roer River in the Belgian-German border region. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Omar Bradley gave George Patton the authority to make advances toward the Rhine River. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• The keel of U-3060 was laid down on Building Ways IV at the Deschimag shipyard in Bremen, Germany. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

• USS Wisconsin escorted carriers as the carrier aircraft attacked Hachino, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) launched raids to bomb and strafe airfields in the vicinity of Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | DS]
• Fighter quadron VF-80 from USS Hancock flew one fighter sweep against Tokyo, Japan; no aircraft were lost. ww2dbase [Main Article | DS]

• US aircraft attacked neutral Portuguese Macau. ww2dbase [CPC]

• The former German ship F7, now in Soviet service, was renamed Buran. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Alabama exited a drydock at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, United States. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

25 Feb 1945 Interactive Map