- USS Blackfin sank Japanese destroyer Shigure in the Gulf of Siam about 160 miles from Kota Bharu, Malaya. ww2dbase [Blackfin | CPC]
- German forces began withdrawing from Slovakia. ww2dbase [TH]
- Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front captured Gleiwitz, Germany (now Gliwice, Poland). ww2dbase [Silesian Offensive and the Siege of Breslau | TH]
- British Fleet Air Arm Seafire fighters commenced operations in the Far East with a full-scale attack on oil targets in Sumatra, Dutch East Indies. ww2dbase [AC]
- USS Ticonderoga arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands; Captain Kiefer, the executive officer, and others wounded during the special attack three days prior were transferred to hospital ship Samaritan. Air Group 80 transferred to USS Hancock. ww2dbase [Albert O. Vorse, Jr. | Ticonderoga | Dixie Kiefer | Ulithi | DS]
- Roza Shanina made her final entry in her combat diary. ww2dbase [Roza Shanina | Ostpreußen | CPC]
- USS Chub arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Chub | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | CPC]
- Submarine USS Spearfish arrived at Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i, ending her twelfth war patrol. ww2dbase [Spearfish | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]
- Shigure was sunk by USS Blackfin in the Gulf of Siam off Khota Bharu, Malaya. ww2dbase [Shigure | Gulf of Siam | CPC]
- USS Nicholas was sent to investigate a small boat 200 miles west of Manila. Three Japanese Army soldiers were recovered from an open boat after 20 days adrift. Nicholas transferred the POWs to USS Phoenix. ww2dbase [Nicholas | South China Sea | DS]
- USS Shangri-La, USS Guam, and USS Harry E. Hubbard transited the Panama Canal. ww2dbase [Guam | Shangri-La | CPC]
- USS New Mexico arrived at San Pedro Bay, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [New Mexico | San Pedro Bay | CPC]
- The BI-7 rocket-powered prototype aircraft took its first flight at Khimki near Moscow, Russia (the eleventh flight of the design); a problem with the landing gear was reported during this flight. ww2dbase [BI | Khimki, Moscow | CPC]
- Frigate HMS Tyler disembarked Harald Hvidtsten, the sole survivor of Norwegian merchant freighter Galatea which was sunk by German submarine U-1051 three days prior, at Liverpool, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Liverpool, England | HM]
- Joseph Stilwell was made the Commanding General, Army Ground Forces. ww2dbase [Joseph Stilwell | CPC]

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