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• With assistance from Bulgarian units, Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front captured the main Hungarian oil production area near Nagykanizsa. ww2dbase [TH]
• Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front captured the Hungarian industrial zone of Mosonmagyarovar. ww2dbase [TH]
• Martin Bormann ordered Germany to fight until victorious or until death. ww2dbase [CPC]
• US troops landed on Sanga Sanga, Sulu, Philippine Islands without resistance; Filipino guerrilla fighters had already secured the island prior to the landing. ww2dbase [Philippines Campaign, Phase 2 | CPC]
• American B-24 bombers conducted a raid on Hong Kong. ww2dbase [CPC]
• American B-24 bombers conducted a raid on Marcus Island. ww2dbase [CPC]
• The American Mk II and Mk IIA1 hand grenades were redesignated Mk 2 and Mk 2A1, respectively. ww2dbase [Mark II | CPC]
• Soviet troops captured Wiener Neustadt, Eisenstadt, Neunkirchen, and Gloggnitz in southern Germany, thus now threatening Vienna. ww2dbase [Battle of Vienna | CPC]
• Louis Mountbatten announced that the planning for Operation Dracula against Rangoon, Burma was to be resumed, with a target execution date of 5 May 1945 at the latest. ww2dbase [Battle of Rangoon | CPC]

• Tran Trong Kim departed Saigon, Cochinchina, French Indochina. ww2dbase [Tran Trong Kim | CPC]

• Folke Bernadotte met Heinrich Himmler at the SS Hohenlychen sanatorium in Lychen, Germany; Himmler was unsuccessful in convincing Bernadotte to help seek a peace between Germany and the Western Allies. ww2dbase [Folke Bernadotte | CPC]

• USS Sennet completed refitting from USS Apollo at Guam, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Sennet | CPC]

• USS Gar departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for the Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Gar | CPC]
• USS Dragonet arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Dragonet | CPC]

• In Japan, 100 American B-29 bombers conducted a raid on the Nakajima aircraft factory near Tokyo, while 15 B-29 bombers mined waters off Kure and Hiroshima. ww2dbase [Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities | CPC]
• Landing ship No. 145 was sunk by US Navy aircraft at Amami Oshima, Satsunan Islands, Amami Archipelago in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]

• 18 US A-20 bombers from Luzon, Philippine Islands attacked the rail marshaling yards at Shinei District (now Xinying District), Takao (now Kaohsiung), Taiwan. ww2dbase [CPC]

• HMS Glory was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Glory | CPC]

2 Apr 1945 Interactive Map