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• USS Gunnel ended her sixth war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Red Army units captured Tallinn and Reval, Estonia. ww2dbase [TH]

• The German garrison in Boulogne, France surrendered to Canadian troops. ww2dbase [TH]
• US Army 65th Infantry Regiment, consisted of Puerto Ricans, arrived France. ww2dbase [CPC]

• US First Army halted its offensive on Aachen, Germany. ww2dbase [TH]

• US troops captured the Il Giogo pass on the Gothic Line in Italy. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Destroyer Yukikaze departed Kure, Japan to escort battleships Fuso and Yamashiro to Lingga, Borneo. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Alabama escorted US carriers as carrier aircraft began attacking Japanese positions in the Manila Bay area in the Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Irako departed Manila, Luzon, Philippine Islands at 0300 hours with a deck load of reconnaissance floatplanes for Coron Bay, Calamian Islands, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]
• Kamoi arrived at Coron Bay, Palawan, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• The leading Divisions of Marshal Fedor Tolbukhin's 3rd Ukrainian Front commenced a crossing of the River Danube near Turnu Severin, Romania, meeting strong opposition from German Army alpine and German Waffen-SS troops under Field Marshal Maximilian Freiherr von Weich's command. ww2dbase [Main Article | AC]

• The Taiwan Army was absorbed into the Japanese Tenth Area Army with General Rikichi Ando remaining as its commanding officer. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• British scientists, returning from studying a German rocket research site at Blizna, Poland, found that the crates of rocket parts collected had been switched to ordinary aircraft parts, presumably by the Soviets who wished to retain the rocket parts for their own weapons research. ww2dbase [CPC]

• The first RaLa Experiment of the Manhattan Project with a radioactive source was performed. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

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