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• Austria was divided into 4 occupied zones. ww2dbase [TH]
• British Second Army was stood down and sent home. ww2dbase [TH]
• Four American destroyers sank four Japanese subchasers in the Kurile Islands. ww2dbase [CPC]
• US Marines landed on Kumejima, Okinawa, Japan. ww2dbase [Okinawa Campaign | CPC]
• At Guam, Mariana Islands, USS Wake Island loaded 9 F6F Hellcat fighters, 24 F4U Corsair fighters, 11 Avenger torpedo bombers, and two Piper J-3 Cub observation aircraft for a transport mission to Okinawa, Japan. ww2dbase [Wake Island | CPC]
• HMCS Trillium was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Trillium | CPC]
• Destroyers USS Nicholas, USS O’Bannon, and USS Taylor arrived at San Pedro Bay in Leyte Gulf, Philippines. ww2dbase [Nicholas | DS]

• Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Steamer Bay arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Steamer Bay | Ulithi | DS]

• Escort carrier USS Card, with no cargo, passengers or air group embarked, departed Guantanamo Bay, Cuba bound for the Panama Canal. ww2dbase [Card | Gunatanamo Bay | DS]

• USS Sea Cat arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her third war patrol. ww2dbase [Sea Cat | Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
• 296th Infantry Regiment, a US Army National Guard unit consisted of Puerto Ricans, arrived in Honolulu, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• USS Parche attacked a large Japanese convoy off northern Japan, sinking one transport and damaging another with a total of 5 torpedo hits before before being driven off by counterattacks; she expended 7 torpedoes in this attack. ww2dbase [Parche | CPC]
• Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa ordered a special attack on the American anchorage at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. Operation Hikari was planned to use submarines I-13 and I-14 to bring Saiun aircraft over Ulithi for reconnaissance. Operation Arashi would then have submarines I-400 and I-401 bring Seiran aircraft to perform special attacks on American ships if the conditions were favorable. Kaiten special attack submarines were to attack at the same time as well. ww2dbase [Jisaburo Ozawa | CPC]
• Landing ship No. 176 was launched, but she would never be completed. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]

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