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• USS Sea Cat sank a 400-ton Japanese schooner with her deck gun. ww2dbase [Sea Cat | CPC]
• King Haakon returned to Norway on the fifth anniversary of his departure. ww2dbase [Haakon VII | TH]
• King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visited the liberated Channel Islands. ww2dbase [George VI | CPC]
• 400 American B-29 bombers attacked Osaka, Japan. ww2dbase [Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities | CPC]
• USS Segundo sank a Japanese ship with her deck gun. ww2dbase [Segundo | CPC]
• USS Flying Fish entered the Sea of Japan. ww2dbase [Flying Fish | CPC]
• USS Nicholas was floated out of floating drydock USS ARD-14 and moored alongside tender USS Sierra at San Pedro Bay in Leyte Gulf, Philippines. ww2dbase [Nicholas | DS]

• Kamikaze began an escort assignment for cruiser Ashigara out of Batavia, Java, Dutch East Indies. ww2dbase [Kamikaze | Batavia, Java | CPC]

• The Western Allies made German citizens in their occupation zones watch films about the Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camps. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]

• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) launched raids on Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands. ww2dbase [Okinawa Campaign | Yorktown (Essex-class) | Okinawa | DS]

• USS New Mexico arrived at Leyte, Philippine Islands to receive repairs. ww2dbase [New Mexico | CPC]

• USS Tamalpais put to sea for the first time departing San Francisco Bay bound for San Diego. ww2dbase [Tamalpais | San Francisco, California | DS]

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