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• USS Ray rescued a downed pilot from USS Cowpens. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Pintado arrived at Tanapag Harbor, Saipan, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• US 95th Division fought its way into Metz, France, but fighting would continue for several more days. ww2dbase [TH]
• French 1st Armored Division reached the Rhine River near Strasbourg, France. ww2dbase [TH]
• Czechoslovakian communists issued a resolution from the city of Mukachevo, Slovak Republic requesting the separation of Subcarpathian Ruthenia from Czechoslovakia so that it could join Ukraine. The resolution was backed by the Soviet Union, but the Soviet Union agreed to put off negotiations for such a border change until the end of the war. ww2dbase [CPC]
• The first successful test of a rocket-powered Ohka aircraft was conducted, leading to the formal authorization of production. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Japanese submarine I-37 was sunk by American ships off Ulithi, Caroline Islands; the four Kaiten submarines aboard that she was supposed to deliver for Operation Gen were also lost. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Shinano was comissioned into service at Yokosuka, Japan with Captain Toshio Abe in command. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• USS Baya departed Fremantle, Australia for her second war patrol in the South China Sea. ww2dbase [Main Article | AC]
• USS Kete departed East China Sea due to heavy weather and malfunctioning bow planes. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• 1,030 arrested Polish Home Army and other partisan fighters arrived at the NKVD-run Ostashkov Special Camp in Tver Oblast, Russia by a special train after a 7-day journey. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• German V-2 rocket hit a car park at Southborough Lane, Bromley in southeast London, England, United Kingdom, across from a crowded pub, at 2115 hours. 23 were killed and 63 were injured. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | CPC]

• Evacuating Germans faced an 85-mile traffic jam after the RAF destroyed the Drina bridge near Visegrad, Yugoslavia. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]

19 Nov 1944 Interactive Map