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• USS Sea Cat departed for her third war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Japanese Shinyo special attack boats damaged destroyer USS Hutchins and an LCI landing ship at Okinawa, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Italian partisans captured Benito Mussolini. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• US First Army captured Kempten and Straubing in southern Germany. ww2dbase [TH]
• The western Allies refused to consider Himmler's attempts at negotiation for peace. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Operation Kikusui No. 4 was launched off Okinawa, Japan, participated by about 65 Japanese Navy and 50 Japanese Army special attack and escorting aircraft. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Aleksandr Vasilevsky began planning for the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• The British East Indies Fleet sailed from Trincomalee, Ceylon to begin a series of strikes prior to the capture of Rangoon, Burma; this force of battleships, cruisers and destroyers would take it in turns to fuel and then screen the carriers hitting airfields, installations and coastal shipping in the Nicobars, the Andamans and along the Burma coast. Meanwhile, on land, Indian 17th Division was attacked by a Japanese suicide offensive north of Pegu; it was repulsed after the Japanese suffered 500 killed. ww2dbase [Main Article | AC, CPC]

• German 9.Armee and 20.Armee both attempted to attack towards Berlin, Germany, but both were rebuffed by Soviet forces. Inside Berlin, Soviet forces fought for control of Templehof airfield, Spandau, and Grunewald areas. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH, AC]
• Before dawn, German Luftwaffe wing KG 4 flew its final supply mission to Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland) as 30 He 111 aircraft dropped 24 tons of ammunition to the German garrison in the city. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• US 12th Armoured Division and 103rd Infantry Division discovered seven sites of the Kaufering Concentration Camp in southern Germany. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]
• Men of US 12th Armored Division arrived at Kaufering Lager IV in Landsberg am Lech in southern Germany, a sub camp of Dachau Concentration Camp. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• US Fifth Army entered Genoa, Italy. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• Brazilian infantry and US tanks drove out German troops at Collecchio, Italy. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Nikolai Selivanovsky was named the NKVD adviser to the Polish Ministry of Public Safety, replacing Ivan Serov. ww2dbase [CPC]

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