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• For the last time, Hitler left the Wolfsschanze Headquarters for Berlin, Germany. ww2dbase [Adolf Hitler | TH]
• Chen Cheng was named the head of the political bureau of the Nationalist military. ww2dbase [Chen Cheng | CPC]
• William Menefee Wilcox was named the commanding officer of USS Pollack. ww2dbase [Pollack | CPC]
• Chinese troops captured Mangshih, Yunnan Province, China. ww2dbase [Salween Offensive | CPC]

• Escort carrier USS Bogue and her task group departed Bermuda bound for New York. ww2dbase [Bogue | Port Royal Bay | DS]

• Japanese submarines I-36 and I-47 each delivered five Kaiten submarines off Ulithi, Caroline Islands. Only one of the Kaiten submarines would find a target, setting the fleet oiler Mississinewa, full of aviation fuel, aflame. ww2dbase [Kaiten-class | Ulithi | CPC]

• Chen Lifu stepped down as the Minister of Education. ww2dbase [Chen Lifu | CPC]
• Gao Youxin, leading seven P-40 Warhawk fighters, was shot down by anti-aircraft fire over Jianjiang County, Hubei Province, China. He would spend the next 40-some days attempting to return to friendly lines. ww2dbase [Gao Youxin | Jianjiang, Hubei | CPC]
• He Yingqin stepped down as Chiang Kaishek's chief of staff for military affairs. ww2dbase [He Yingqin | CPC]

• Admiral Scheer, Prinz Eugen, Z35, Z36, and Z43 began shelling Soviet positions during the evacuation of the Sõrve (German: Sworbe) peninsula on the Estonian island of Saaremaa (German: Ösel). ww2dbase [Z43 | Z36 | Prinz Eugen | Admiral Scheer | Z35 | Saaremaa | CPC]

• Jean de Lattre de Tassigny was awarded the Ordre de la Libération. ww2dbase [Jean de Lattre de Tassigny | CPC]

• Oberleutnant zur See Otto Hübschen stepped down as the commanding officer of U-2501. ww2dbase [U-2501 | CPC]

• USS Cod arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Cod | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: The first engine overhauled in the new progressive engine overall plant, completed its test stand run. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]
• USS Cod arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• Garland set sail from the Eastern Mediterranean Sea for Britain. ww2dbase [Garland | CPC]

• 1,014 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 an 8-day journey. ww2dbase [Ostashkov Special Camp | Ostashkov, Tver | CPC]

20 Nov 1944 Interactive Map