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• USS Flasher sank Japanese transport ship Ural Maru, killing about 2,000. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• German Armeegruppe E withdrew from western Greece. ww2dbase [TH]
• Allied troops captured Helmond and Oss in the Netherlands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Frederick Aikman returned to front line service. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Four TDR-1 drones, controlled from TBM-1c aircraft, were launched against beached Japanese freighter used as antiaircraft emplacement off Kahili airstrip, Bougainville. Two drones hit the ship, one crashed just short (bomb did not explode) and one was lost enroute. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC, DS]

• USS Sunfish arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her eighth war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Unryu arrived at Kure, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• James Johnson shot down a German Bf 109 fighter over Nijmegen, the Netherlands, scoring his final kill of the war. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Whale was spotted by a Japanese patrol craft between Taiwan and Philippine Islands but was able to escape. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Kamoi was hit by a torpedo from submarine USS Bonefish in the South China Sea at 0500 hours; she arrived at Manila, Philippine Islands for repairs in the evening. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• 2,000 fighters of the Armia Krajowa surrendered in Warsaw, Poland. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]

• USS Tang departed Midway, where she stopped to refuel. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

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