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• Iro Ilk was shot down and killed near Moers, Germany. ww2dbase [Iro Ilk | 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 [Operation Market Garden | TH]
• Norwegian ministers urged Germany to withdraw from Norwegian occupation. ww2dbase [TH]
• USS Snook arrived at Saipan, Mariana Islands for repairs. ww2dbase [Snook | CPC]
• USS Becuna fired three torpedoes at a Japanese destroyer in the Luzon Strait south of Taiwan; all torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Becuna | CPC]
• Yasoshima received orders to move to the front. ww2dbase [Pinghai | CPC]
• French Army B was redesignated French 1st Army; Jean de Lattre de Tassigny remained the unit's commanding officer. ww2dbase [Jean de Lattre de Tassigny | CPC]
• USS Nicholas departed Hollandia, New Guinea escorting a convoy bound for Morotai, Maluku Islands. ww2dbase [Nicholas | DS]

• Hunter-Killer Task Group 22.2 centered around escort carrier USS Card and escorts departed Bermuda for their patrol area in the mid-Atlantic for anti-submarine warfare. After being underway for barely 90 minutes, escort ship USS Breeman experienced an explosion and fire in her Number 4 engine that forced her return to Bermuda for repairs. ww2dbase [Card | DS]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Surabaya, Java and arrived at Jamuan. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Jamuan, Aceh | 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 [Calais, Nord-Pas de Calais | 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 [Colditz Castle | Colditz, Sachsen | CPC]
• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against Frankfurt, Germany. ww2dbase [RAF Thurleigh | Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Frankfurt | DS]

• Landing ship No. 139 was completed. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]

• 100 miles west of Inchon, Korea, submarine USS Thresher tracked a single 1,500-ton merchant ship. Thresher fired two torpedoes and both hit the ship broadside. The ship sank within a minute. (Many sources list this ship as Nissei Maru, but this identification is uncertain.) ww2dbase [Thresher | Yellow Sea | DS]

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

• USS Astoria transited the Panama Canal and then made port call at Balboa, Panama. ww2dbase [Astoria (Cleveland-class) | Panama Canal | Balboa | CPC]

• Landing ship No. 127 was sunk by US aircraft off Ticao Island, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | Ticao | 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 [Lubyanka Building | Moscow | 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 [V-Weapons Campaign | Vergeltungswaffe 1 | England | HM]

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