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• Light carrier Hosho departed Oita, Japan for target ship duty for Air Group 252's training. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]
• US Third Army captured Kochem, Germany. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• Soviet forces moved toward Gotenhafen, Germany (now Gdynia, Poland), endangering the civilian rescue effort there. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• 285 American B-29 bombers attacked the Nagoya, Japan urban area with incendiary bombs. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Boarfish departed Fremantle, Australia for her second war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Anglo-Indian troops continued to assault Mandalay Hill near Mandalay, Burma. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• In Operation Tan No. 2, Japanese Navy aircraft conducted a large-scale special attack operation on American warships at Ulithi atoll, Caroline Islands. Closer to the home islands, a P1Y1 Ginga aircraft of 762nd Naval Air Group based in Kanoya, Kagoshima, Japan struck USS Randolph at dusk. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Emperor Bao Dai of Nguyen Dynasty Vietnam declared Vietnamese independence from France, with Japanese support. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Lavrentiy Beria reported to Joseph Stalin that suicides, especially among women, were becoming common in Soviet-occupied East Prussia, Germany. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Adolf Hitler made a surprise visit to 9th Army headquarters in Saarow between Frankfurt an der Oder and Berlin in Germany. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Sargent Bay departed Iwo Jima, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Settsu departed Oita, Japan for target ship duty. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• American fighters began flying escort operations from Iwo Jima, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Segundo sank Japanese cargo ship Shori Maru in the East China Sea off Korea with 2 of 4 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Springer attempted to attack two Japanese warships in the Pacific Ocean, but was driven off by aircraft. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• The first unexploded V-2 rocket landed in England, United Kingdom, but it was not retrieved and studied until 7 Apr, by that time other unexploded rockets had been found and many secrets of the rocket had already been uncovered. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Allied convoy JW-65 departed Clyde, Scotland, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

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