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- Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front penetrated the German defensive lines between Wiener Neustadt and Neusiedler Lake, advancing toward Vienna, Austria. Major Carl Szokoll, a leader of the Austrian resistance, met with Soviet authorities about cooperation in Vienna to prevent the city's destruction. ww2dbase [Battle of Vienna | TH]
- General of Infantry Wilhelm Hasse replaced Walther Nehring as the commander of the German 1.Panzerarmee. ww2dbase [CPC]
- British Second Army arrived at Münster, Germany while the US Ninth Army captured Recklinghausen. ww2dbase [Fall of the Ruhr | TH]
- US First Army captured Fulda and Kassel, Germany. ww2dbase [TH]
- German rocket troops were converted to regular troops and joined the German 5th Army Corps. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Allied troops captured Hengelo, the Netherlands. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Special attack boats of Japanese Navy Shinyo Squadron 22 sank American gunboat LCI(G)-82 at Okinawa, Japan. ww2dbase [Shinyo-class | CPC]
- USS Wake Island was struck by two or three Japanese special attack aircraft, causing damage but little casualties. ww2dbase [Wake Island | CPC]
- The US coastal minesweeper YMS-71 struck a mine and sunk off Sanga Sanga, Borneo. ww2dbase [AC]
- While at Kiel, Germany, U-56 was seriously damaged by US aircraft, leading to her decommissioning from service. ww2dbase [U-56 | CPC]
- US 45th Infantry Division captured Aschaffenburg, Germany. ww2dbase [Southern Germany Campaign | Aschaffenburg, Hessen-Nassau | CPC]
- While under repair at Deutsche Werke shipyard in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Emden had her forward funnel destroyed by a direct hit of an Allied aerial bomb. ww2dbase [Emden | Deutsche Werke Kiel | Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein | CPC]
- The column of prisoners of war that SS-Feldgendarmerie personnel forced out of Marlag und Milag Nord prisoners of war camp in Westertimke, Germany on the previous day were strafed by RAF aircraft at about 1000 hours. Several prisoners were killed. ww2dbase [Marlag und Milag Nord | Weser-Ems | HM]
- U-1233 arrived at Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. ww2dbase [U-1233 | Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein | CPC]
- USS Sennet departed Guam, Mariana Islands for her third war patrol. ww2dbase [Sennet | CPC]
- USS Franklin arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Franklin | Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Honolulu, Hawaii | CPC]
- Troops of British Special Boat Service and Italian 28th Garribaldi Brigade captured islands in Lake Comacchio in northern Italy. ww2dbase [Operation Grapeshot and Operation Roast | Comacchio, Emilia-Romagna | CPC]
- 68 American B-29 bombers attacked the Koizuimi aircraft factory and the urban areas of Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities | Tokyo | CPC]
- USS Ancon was ordered to move further away from Okinawa, Japan due to dangers from Japanese aircraft. ww2dbase [Okinawa Campaign | Ancon | Okinawa | CPC]
- Destroyer USS Shaw arrived in Leyte Gulf and anchored in San Pedro Bay. ww2dbase [Shaw | San Pedro Bay, Leyte | DS]
- 16 B-25 bombers of USAAF 3rd Bombardment Group and B-24 bombers of USAAF 90th Bombardment Group, escorted by 8 P-38 fighters, attacked the butanol plant, rail marshalling yards, and the military airfield at Kagi, Taiwan. ww2dbase [Kagi Airfield | Kagi, Tainan | CPC]




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