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• USS Cod arrived at Guam, Mariana Islands for refitting, ending her sixth war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Jisaburo Ozawa was named the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• US 10th Army captured Shuri Castle at Okinawa, Japan. Off the coast, Japanese special attack aircraft damaged 2 destroyers. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Vasily Chuikov was awarded the Order of Suvorov 1st Class for the third time. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Soviet 2nd Byelorussian Front was renamed Northern Group of Military Forces, or SGV. Konstantin Rokossovsky remained the commanding officer of the group. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Bluegill landed US and Australian personnel on Pratas of the Pratas Islands (Chinese: Dongsha Islands) in the South China Sea and destroyed the Japanese radio tower, weather station, fuel, ammunition dump, and several buildings. The operation was unopposed as the Japanese had already abandoned the island. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Jakarta, Java. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• The staff of Hadamar Euthanasia Center Aktion in western Germany murdered its final victim, a mentally handicapped boy. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

• USS Flying Fish departed Guam, Mariana Islands for her twelfth war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Sterlet attacked a Japanese convoy east of the southern tip of Karafuto, Japan (now Sakhalin, Russia), sinking a freighter and damaging another, hitting them with four of six torpedoes. As the escort vessels counterattacked, she fired three salvos of four, three, and then four torpedoes at them, all of which missed, but she was able to escape from the counterattack. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• American B-25 bombers from Okinawa conducted a raid on Tokyo, Japan, while 454 B-29 bombers (escorted by 101 P-51 fighters) firebombed Yokohama, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Japanese pilto Second Lieutenant Kiyoharu Kawada (Roh Yong-U) rammed his Ki-45 Toryu heavy fighter into an attacking US B-29 Superfortress bomber (serial 42-24894) over Oi River, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, destroying the bomber but also sacrificing himself. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• I-14 departed Chinkai Naval Station in Chinkai (now Jinhae), Korea. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Boarfish attacked a Japanese convoy in the Java Sea between Sumatra and Java with four torpedoes and observed at least one explosion against an oiler; she was severely damaged in the subsequent depth charge counterattack, but she would be able to set sail for home. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Segundo encountered several vessels in the East China Sea; she seven two-masted schooners her crew identified as Japanese with the deck gun. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• The BI-7 rocket-powered prototype aircraft underwent a unpowered glider test at Khimki near Moscow, Russia. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Vasily Kuznetsov was made a Hero of the Soviet Union. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• 14 of the 25 captured US Army and US Navy airmen imprisoned at the Taihoku Prison in Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan were sentenced to death by firing squad; the execution was to be carried out on 19 Jun 1945 ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• 100 American B-24 bombers conducted a raid on Taiwan. ww2dbase [CPC]

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