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• Otto Skorzeny was ordered to depart from Army Group Vistula and to return to Berlin, Germany. ww2dbase [Otto Skorzeny | CPC]
• U-869 was attacked by American destroyer escort USS Fowler and French submarine chaser L'Indiscret off Rabat, French Morocco. Although the attack was unsuccessful, the Allies recorded it as a probably sinking. ww2dbase [U-869 | CPC]
• Iran declared war on Japan. ww2dbase [AC]
• USS Nicholas departed Lingayen Gulf bound for Subic Bay, Luzon, Philippines. ww2dbase [Nicholas | DS]

• US Ninth Army achieved breakthrough near Erkelenz, Germany. ww2dbase [Advance to the Rhine | Erkelenz, Köln-Aachen | TH]
• Soviet 2nd Byelorussian Front captured Neustettin, Germany (now Szczecinek, Poland). ww2dbase [East Prussian Offensive | Neustettin, Pommern | TH]
• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against rail facilities at Hagen, Germany. ww2dbase [RAF Thurleigh | Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Hagen | DS]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 5 departed. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• Soviet forces suspended offensives against German Armeegruppe Kurland in Lithuania. ww2dbase [TH]

• A F4U Corsair fighter of US Marine Corps squadron VMF-214 suffered a belly tank accidental detachment during its landing aboard USS Franklin in the Pacific Ocean between California, United States and the Territory of Hawaii. The tank flew forward into the propeller blades, and the resulting fuel spill was ignited into a fire that would burn for an hour. The pilot Ralph Husted was killed. ww2dbase [Franklin | CPC]

• Palawan attack force, with USCGC Spencer as flagship and destroyer USS Shaw as screening vessel, made landings at Puerto Princesa, Palawan. ww2dbase [Philippines Campaign, Phase 2 | Spencer | Shaw | Puerto Princesa, Palawan | DS]

• Saudi Arabia declared war on Germany and Japan. ww2dbase [AC]

• Allied convoy RA-64 arrived at Loch Ewe, Scotland, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Loch Ewe, Scotland | CPC]

• USS R-1 departed for New York City, New York, United States. ww2dbase [R-1 | New York | CPC]
• Robert Christy finalized the Christy Gadget implosion device during a meeting in Robert Oppenheimer's office in New Mexico, United States. ww2dbase [Operation Trinity and Manhattan Project | Robert Oppenheimer | New Mexico | CPC]

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