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• USS Tunny was attacked by Japanese aircraft in the Sea of Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Wake Island received supplies at Kaika Harbor, Kerama Retto, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Trawler Anticosti was decommissioned from Canadian service and was returned to the British Royal Navy. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Japanese Admiral Ota Minoru committed ritual suicide for failing to defend Okinawa, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Georg-Wolfgang Feller became the last recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross award, although the award was given more than one month after German President Karl Dönitz had officially ordered all awards to cease. ww2dbase [CPC]

• USS Portland departed the Okinawa area en route San Pedro Bay, Leyte, Philippines. ww2dbase [Main Article | DS]

• USS Springer departed Saipan, Mariana Islands for her third war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Bergall arrived at Subic Bay, Philippine Islands to receive emergency repairs for damage sustained four days prior by a friendly naval mine. This ended her fifth war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

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