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• Soviet troops entered former Czechoslovakian province of Ruthenia. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Soviet 1st Byelorussian Front captured Fortress Küstrin in Germany. ww2dbase [TH]
• Omar Bradley was promoted to the temporary rank of general. ww2dbase [Omar Bradley | CPC]
• USS Macabi was commissioned into service with Commander Anthony H. Dropp in command. ww2dbase [Macabi | CPC]
• USS Chub spotted a Japanese convoy in the Java Sea and began pursuing the ships, attacked by patrolling aircraft in the process. ww2dbase [Chub | CPC]
• USS Bailey arrived at Balayan Bay, Luzon where task group transports began loading Army personnel. Bailey embarked Army Brigadier General Hanford MacNider, commanding general of the 158th Regimental Combat Team, his staff, and two press correspondents. ww2dbase [Bailey | DS]

• The Japanese called off the attempt to recapture Meiktila, Burma. ww2dbase [Battle of Meiktila-Mandalay | Meiktila | CPC]

• In Germany, US Third Army captured Frankfurt and Wiesbaden and US Seventh Army captured Mannheim. British sappers built another Rhine bridge, "Westminster". ww2dbase [Crossing the Rhine | TH, AC]

• Germany lost its last major source of oil when Soviet units captured the Komorn oil fields in Hungary. ww2dbase [Budapest Strategic Offensive Operation | Komorn | TH]

• Japanese Navy Shinyo special attack boats launched an attack at Okinawa, Japan to no effect. ww2dbase [Shinyo-class | Okinawa | CPC]
• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) launched two raids and one photographic reconnaissance mission over Kyushu, Japan. A single Yokosuka D4Y ?Judy? dive bomber made a diving attack on Yorktown but missed the carrier by about 60 feet. ww2dbase [Battle of Iwo Jima | Yorktown (Essex-class) | DS]

• US 20th Air Force conducted its final mission over Malaya, striking communications centers, airfields, and rail yards. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Submarine USS Thresher destroyed a floating mine 375 miles northeast of Luzon, Philippines. ww2dbase [Thresher | DS]

• Destroyer USS Shaw arrived in Leyte Gulf and anchored in San Pedro Bay. ww2dbase [Shaw | San Pedro Bay, Leyte | DS]

• The 1,370-ton Canadian River-class frigate HMCS Teme (K 458) was torpedoed and fatally damaged by German submarine U-315 just off Land's End, England, United Kingdom. The frigate lost 60 feet of her stern and was towed to Falmouth, Cornwall, England and was declared a total loss. ww2dbase [Conclusion of the Battle of the Atlantic | England | HM]

• Franklin Roosevelt visited Hyde Park, New York, United States and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library for what would be the last time. ww2dbase [Franklin Roosevelt | Hyde Park, New York | CPC]

29 Mar 1945 Interactive Map