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• USS Tirante sank Japanese tanker Fuji Maru. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Wake Island arrived about 100 kilometers south of Okinawa, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• US First Army finally broke out of Remagen bridgehead in Germany. 140 kilometers to the north, British Second Army captured Wesel, Germany. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• Retreating USAAF personnel blew up the Laohokow air base in China to prevent Japanese capture. ww2dbase [CPC]
• British General Montgomery issued a non-fraternization order as British troops entered Germany. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Winston Churchill, accompanied by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, crossed the Rhine River in Germany, visiting HQ 21st Army Group and delivered a characteristic message to officers and men. ww2dbase [Main Article | AC]
• Maximilian von Weichs stepped down as the commanding officer of German Armeegruppe F. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Springer arrived at Guam, Mariana Islands, ending her first war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Finback arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her twelfth and final war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

• USS Sargent Bay arrived in Okinawa, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Tadamichi Kuribayashi passed away on Iwo Jima, Japan. He reportedly committed ritual suicide, but his body was never found. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | CPC]

• 18 US A-20 bombers from Luzon, Philippine Islands attacked a factory at Kyoshito District (now Qiaotou District), Takao (now Kaohsiung), Taiwan. ww2dbase [CPC]

• German V-2 rocket hit Whitfield Street in St Pancras, London, England, United Kingdom in the late afternoon, killing 9 and seriously injuring 46. The Whitfield Memorial Chapel at Tottenham Court Road was badly damaged. In the evening, at 2300 hours, another rocket hit Broadfield Square in Enfield, London, killing 7 and seriously injuring 100. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• The second FR Fireball prototype aircraft was destroyed in a crash. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

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