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• Cruiser Köln began a three-month refit. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, who had escaped from Auschwitz Concentration Camp three days prior, arrived in Slovakia. They would later revealing information about the camp to outside world via the Papal Nuncio in Slovakia. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Soviet troops entered Odessa, Ukraine. ww2dbase [TH]
• Aleksandr Vasilevsky was awarded the Order of Victory for the first time. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Rockets and aerial depth charges from USS Guadalcanal's anti-submarine hunter-killer group TBM Avenger aircraft sank German Type IXC submarine U-68 650 miles off Casablanca. There was one survivor. ww2dbase [Main Article | DS]

• 672nd Bomb Squadron and 675th Bomb Squadron (both flying A-20 aircraft) of USAAF 417th Bomb Group were transferred from Dobodura Airfield to Saidor Airfield, Australian Papua. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

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

• The keel of landing ship No. 133 was laid down at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal in Sasebo, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]
• The keel of landing ship No. 134 was laid down by Kawanami Kogyo. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• German Großdeutschland Division counterattacked westward from Podu Iloaiei toward Târgu Frumos, Romania. To the south of Târgu Frumos, Romanian 1st Guard Division and Romanian 7th Infantry Division attacked in concert. Soviet troops withdrew from Târgu Frumos by 2200 hours. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Georgy Zhukov was awarded the Order of Victory for the first time; this was the very first Order of Victory given out by the Soviet Union. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• The US Joint Chiefs of Staff formally approved Operation Matterhorn, the name allocated to the B-29 bomber offensive against Japanese cities. ww2dbase [Main Article | AC]

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