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• Martti Aho was awarded his second Mannerheim Cross medal. ww2dbase [Martti Aho | CPC]
• ShCh-307 attacked a merchant ship; both torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [ShCh-307 | CPC]

• After the Army Signal Corps installed special long-range radio equipment, United States Army General Douglas MacArthur and an Army observation party arrived aboard the cruiser USS Nashville at Hollandia, New Guinea to observe the landings at Leyte Gulf four days later. ww2dbase [Nashville | Douglas MacArthur | Philippines Campaign, Phase 1, the Leyte Campaign | Hollandia, New Guinea | DS]

• US First Army surrounded Aachen, Germany. ww2dbase [Aachen, Köln-Aachen | TH]
• Soviet units entered German territory as Goldap, East Prussia (now Gołdap, Poland) was captured. ww2dbase [Goldap, Ostpreußen | TH]
• Heinrich Himmler visited Nürnberg, Germany to personally inspect the repairs to the bunker which housed the Imperial Regalia of the Holy Roman Empire. ww2dbase [Heinrich Himmler | Nürnberg, Franken | CPC]
• Marcel Albert, flying a Yak-3 fighter, shot down a Fw 190 aircraft southeast of Stallupönen, Ostpreußen, Germany (now Nesterov, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia). ww2dbase [Marcel Albert | Stallupönen, Ostpreußen | CPC]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 4 on board. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• 28 US 14th Air Force B-24 and B-25 bombers escorted by one P-40 fighter and 29 P-51 fighters attacked the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Many bombs went far astray, hitting an elementary school (200 teachers and students killed), residential zones (100 civilians killed), and a large diesel fuel storage tank in the civilian sector of Kowloon (resulting in a fire that burned for several days); 300 civilians were injured. Concurrently, 8 B-25 bombers escorted by 8 P-40 fighters struck Victoria Harbor, Hong Kong, sinking 10 Japanese vessels. Japanese anti-aircraft gunners claimed the downing of 14 Allied aircraft over Hong Kong across the two raids. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Kamoi departed Hong Kong harbor for buoy No. 12. At 1540 hours, she was attacked by US aircraft, but suffered no damage. At 2017 hours, she was relocated to Tung Long Island (Toryu Jima). ww2dbase [Kamoi | CPC]

• Károly Beregfy was made the Hungarian Minister of Defense, with the concurrent duties of being the Chief of the General Staff and the Commander-in-Chief of the Hungarian Army. ww2dbase [Károly Beregfy | Budapest | CPC]

• US 5th Army launched a new offensive toward Bologna, Italy. ww2dbase [Gothic Line Offensive | CPC]

• Unryu arrived at Kure, Japan. ww2dbase [Unryu | Kure, Hiroshima | CPC]
• Nachi arrived at Amami Oshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan with Cruiser Division 21. ww2dbase [Nachi | Amami Oshima, Kagoshima | CPC]
• Patrol Boat No. 102 departed Tachibana Bay, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan at 0235 hours and arrived at Sasebo at 0814 hours. ww2dbase [Stewart | Tachibana Bay, Nagasaki | CPC]

• USS Whale was spotted and attacked by Japanese aircraft in the South China Sea, but suffered no damage. ww2dbase [Whale | South China Sea | CPC]

• Submarine USS Narwhal arrived off the northern coast of Tawi Tawi, Philippines in the Sulu Archipelago and observed a proper recognition signal on the beach. ww2dbase [Narwhal | Tawi Tawi | DS]

• USAAF XX Bomber Command B-29 bombers attacked Okayama Airfield north of Takao (now Kaohsiung), Taiwan. ww2dbase [Okayama Aircraft Factory | Takao | CPC]
• USAAF XX Bomber Command B-29 bombers attacked Heito Airfield in Heito (now Pingtung), Taiwan. Several bombers attacked the rail marshaling yard and the harbor in nearby Toshien District, Takao (now Zuoying District, Kaohsiung), Taiwan, which were secondary targets. ww2dbase [Heito Airfield | Heito, Takao | CPC]

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