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• Allied troops captured Maastricht, Gulpen, and Meerssen in the Netherlands. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Winston Churchill approved the transfer of Oliver Leese to Southeast Asia for a high command position. ww2dbase [Oliver Leese | CPC]
• Léon Degrelle was awarded the Close Combat Clasp in Gold. ww2dbase [Léon Degrelle | CPC]
• Kamoi refueled destroyer Satsuki. ww2dbase [Kamoi | CPC]
• HMS CUMBERLAND provided cover with HMS HOWE and Eastern Fleet cruisers during air operations by HM Aircraft Carriers VICTORIOUS and INDOMITABLE carriers on Sigli, Northern Sumatra (Operation LIGHT). ww2dbase [Indomitable | Victorious | Cumberland | Howe | DS]

• Joseph Stilwell visited Guilin, China and ordered the nearby airfields to be abandoned and gas stores destroyed to prevent Japanese capture. ww2dbase [Operation Ichigo | Guilin, Guangxi | CPC]

• Two BQ-7 drones successfully crossed into northern Germany, but missed their targets due to poor weather conditions. ww2dbase [Operation Aphrodite and Operation Anvil | HM]

• USS Pintado arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her second war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Pintado | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• Canadian 5th Armoured Division and British 1st Armoured Division captured Coriano, Italy. ww2dbase [Gothic Line Offensive | Coriano, Emilia-Romagna | CPC]

• Soviet First Baltic Front, Second Baltic Front, and Third Baltic Front launched a massive assault against German Armeegruppe Nord, pushing it back to Riga, Latvia. ww2dbase [Operation Bagration | TH, CPC]

• USS Alabama escorted US carriers as carrier aircraft began attacking Japanese positions in the Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Alabama | CPC]
• USS Sunfish fired 4 torpedoes at a Japanese transport in the Yellow Sea; all torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Sunfish (Gato-class) | Yellow Sea | CPC]
• USS Miami operated off the Philippine Islands in indirect support of the Palau Islands campaign. ww2dbase [Miami | Philippine Sea | CPC]

• 800 Gypsy children, more than 100 of whom were boys between 9 and 14 years of age, were executed at Auschwitz Concentration Camp in occupied Poland. ww2dbase [Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Oswiecim | CPC]
• Soviet troops reached the suburbs of Warsaw, Poland and began air dropping supplies to the Armia Krajowa. ww2dbase [Warsaw Uprising | Warsaw | TH]

• Three German V-2 rockets hit Britain. One of them hit the center of Walthamstow, London, England, United Kingdom at 0455 hours, killing six immediately and another one later from wounds. The resulting crater was 50 feet wide and 10 feet deep. ww2dbase [V-Weapons Campaign | Vergeltungswaffe 2 | London, England | CPC]

• Court martial proceedings against 50 African-American sailors opened on Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco, California, United States. The 50 were charged with mutiny for refusing to resume loading munitions after the Port Chicago explosion of 17 Jul 1944. ww2dbase [Port Chicago Naval Munitions Explosion | San Francisco, California | DS]
• USS Saratoga departed Puget Sound Naval Shipyard after overhaul. ww2dbase [Puget Sound Navy Yard | Saratoga | Bremerton, Washington | DS]

• Soviet and Bulgarian troops marched into eastern Yugoslavia from Bulgaria. ww2dbase [Belgrade Strategic Offensive Operation | Serbia | CPC]

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