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• One day after a mission over Rabaul, New Britain in which unmanned TDR drones damaged some buildings, the US Navy canceled the TDR project. ww2dbase [TDR | CPC]
• German forces evacuated Albania. ww2dbase [TH]
• German forces in Netherlands started withdrawing to Walcheren in the face of Canadian pressure. ww2dbase [TH]
• German 4.Armee stubbornly resisted around Goldap, East Prussia, Germany, halting the Soviet advance. ww2dbase [TH]
• The Finnmark region of Norway was ordered by the Germans to be evacuated and destroyed. Nearly 50,000 people were forced to flee and over 10,000 homes are destroyed. ww2dbase [TH]

• Destroyer Yukikaze arrived at Brunei. ww2dbase [Yukikaze | CPC]

• Kamoi departed Sijiao Island off Shanghai, China at 0930 hours. ww2dbase [Kamoi | Sijiao Island, Zhejiang | CPC]

• General Rudolf Viest sent a message to the Czechoslovakian government-in-exile in Britain that the organized resistance had ended. ww2dbase [Slovak National Uprising | CPC]

• USS Sea Cat departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Composite Squadron 90 (VC-90) on board. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]
• USS Sea Cat departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. ww2dbase [Sea Cat | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• Hannah Szenes was tried for treason against Hungary. ww2dbase [Hannah Szenes | Budapest | CPC]

• The US 5th Army offensive Bologna, Italy began to stall. ww2dbase [Gothic Line Offensive | CPC]

• Unryu departed Kure, Japan. ww2dbase [Unryu | Kure, Hiroshima | CPC]
• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]

• The 50,000th carrier landing for USS Ranger occurred during carrier training off the California coast. ww2dbase [Ranger | DS]
• Destroyer USS Helm, assisted by destroyer USS Gridley and TBF Avenger aircraft from carrier USS Belleau Wood, sinks either Japanese submarine I-46 or I-54, 100 miles east of Samar, Philippines. [Both I-46 and I-54 were lost the same day in the same area so there is some uncertainty, but I-46 is more likely.] ww2dbase [Helm | Gridley | DS]
• USS Wasp departed waters off Philippine Islands for Ulithi, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Wasp (Essex-class) | CPC]
• Destroyer USS Helm, assisted by destroyer USS Gridley and TBF Avenger aircraft from carrier USS Belleau Wood, sinks either Japanese submarine I-46 or I-54, 100 miles east of Samar, Philippines. [Both I-46 and I-54 were lost the same day in the same area so there is some uncertainty, but I-46 is more likely.] ww2dbase [Belleau Wood | Philippines Campaign, Phase 1, the Leyte Campaign | DS]

• Damaged cruiser Kumano arrived at Manila, Philippines. ww2dbase [Yukikaze | Manila | DS]
• Destroyer USS Shaw departed Leyte Gulf bound for Hollandia (now Jayapura) with 68 survivors of the carrier USS Gambier Bay, including the commanding officer. ww2dbase [Shaw | Philippines Campaign, Phase 1, the Leyte Campaign | Leyte Gulf, Leyte | DS]
• Landing ship No. 101 was sunk by US aircraft in Ormoc Bay, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | Philippines Campaign, Phase 1, the Leyte Campaign | Ormoc Bay, Leyte | CPC]
• Nachi arrived at Manila Bay, Philippine Islands and entered drydock at No. 103 Repair Facility at Cavite for repairs. ww2dbase [Nachi | Cavite | CPC]
• Damaged cruiser Kumano arrived at Manila, Philippines. ww2dbase [Philippines Campaign, Phase 1, the Leyte Campaign | Kumano | Manila | DS]

• Jewish prisoner Kurt Gerron, who had completed a propaganda film at Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in occupied Czechoslovakia for the Germans, was killed at Auschwitz Concentration Camp in occupied Poland. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Oswiecim | CPC]

• Allied convoy JW-61 arrived at the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Murmansk | CPC]

• Deptford, one of the most heavily hit London boroughs by V-1 flying bombs was hit again; the bomb crashed into Milton Court Road, killing one and injuring others. Flight Lieutenant Ernie Williams flying a Tempest V fighter (EJ590/SD-L) shot down his tenth and final V-1 flying bomb. ww2dbase [London, England | HM]
• HMS King George V departed Scapa Flow, Scotland, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Scapa Flow | King George V | Scapa Flow, Scotland | CPC]

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