2 Apr 1945
- 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 | Saigon, Cochinchina | 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 | Lychen, Mark Brandenburg | CPC]
- The commandant of Marlag und Milag Nord prisoners of war camp in Westertimke, Germany announced that he had received orders to leave the camp with most of the regular camp guards. In the afternoon, a detachment of over a hundred SS-Feldgendarmerie, who were outside the commandant's command, entered the camp, mustered over 3,000 men, and marched them out eastwards. ww2dbase [Marlag und Milag Nord | Westertimke, Weser-Ems | HM]
- 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 | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
- USS Dragonet arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Dragonet | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | 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 | Amami Oshima, Okinawa | CPC]
- Due to faulty bow plane controls, submarine USS Tinosa departed her patrol are after only six days on station bound for Guam. ww2dbase [Tinosa | East China Sea | DS]
- Destroyer USS Shaw was detached from her convoy to investigate Japanese shipping off Dauis, Bohol, Philippines but struck an uncharted pinnacle, damaging her port propeller. Shaw headed for Leyte Gulf for repairs. ww2dbase [Philippines Campaign, Phase 2 | Shaw | Panglao, Bohol | DS]
- 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 [Takao | CPC]
- HMS Glory was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Glory | CPC]

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