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• Yasoshima received orders to move to the front. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Snook arrived at Saipan, Mariana Islands for repairs. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Becuna fired three torpedoes at a Japanese destroyer in the Luzon Strait south of Taiwan; all torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Iro Ilk was shot down and killed near Moers, Germany. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Germany formed the Volkssturm. ww2dbase [TH]
• The remaining 2,163 British airborne troops were evacuated from Arnhem, the Netherlands; the original strength was about 10,000. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• Norwegian ministers urged Germany to withdraw from Norwegian occupation. ww2dbase [TH]
• French Army B was redesignated French 1st Army; Jean de Lattre de Tassigny remained the unit's commanding officer. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Surabaya, Java and arrived at Jamuan. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• Having taken Boulogne, France, Canadian 3rd Division assaulted Calais where their operation to capture the port would be complicated by the presence of 20,000 French civilians who have not been evacuated. ww2dbase [TH, AC]

• British prisoner of war Lieutenant Mike Sinclair was killed by a German guard while attempting to escape from the Oflag IV-C camp at Colditz Castle in Germany. He had attempted to escape several times prior, and through these attempted had earned the respect of his captors, who allowed the British prisoners to bury Sinclair with full military honors. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Landing ship No. 139 was completed. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Whale arrived at Bashi Channel between Taiwan and Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Astoria transited the Panama Canal and then made port call at Balboa, Panama. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

• Landing ship No. 127 was sunk by US aircraft off Ticao Island, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Slovakian Captain Frantisek Urban, tricked by the Soviets to visit Moscow in Russia, was arrested by SMERSH and was transferred to the Lubyanka Prison. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• British 501 Squadron's Tempest aircraft continued to fly all weather patrols against the V-1 flying bombs. The American Flight Officer Bud Miller shot down his 9th and final bomb but Flight Lieutenant Gordon "Snowy" Bonham DFC was killed when his Tempest aircraft crashed in bad weather at Spitfield Farm in Essex, England, United Kingdom; the New Zealander had flown against the Japanese in Singapore in 1942, and had 5 flying bombs to his credit. Four flying bombs penetrated the defences, one falling in Chersey, Surrey, one in Essex and another at Hessett, 5 miles east of Bury St Edmunds, it exploded in the middle of Mellfield Woods, damaging the farm house. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | HM]

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