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• USS Cod arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her fourth war patrol. ww2dbase [Cod | CPC]
• USS Tang sank Japanese tanker Nanko Maru No. 8 with two torpedoes. ww2dbase [Tang | CPC]
• Finland began secret negotiations with the Soviet Union. ww2dbase [Finland Switched Sides | TH]

• US Eighth Air Force attacked Peenemünde Army Research Center in Germany to counter suspected hydrogen peroxide production. ww2dbase [RAF Thurleigh | Peenemünde Army Research Center | Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Peenemünde, Pommern | CPC]

• USS Wake Island completed her repairs at Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, United States. ww2dbase [Norfolk Navy Yard | Wake Island | Portsmouth, Virginia | CPC]

• Soviet 3rd Baltic Front captured Tartu, Estonia. ww2dbase [Operation Bagration | Tartu | TH]

• The French 2nd Armoured Division entered Paris, France. De Gaulle moved his headquarters into the War Ministry in Paris on the same day with the approval of Eisenhower. ww2dbase [Liberation of Paris | Paris | AC]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Night Air Group 42 (CVLG(N)-42) commissioned. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Sargent Bay arrived at Eniwetok, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Sargent Bay | Eniwetok | DS]

• British 8th Army launched Operation Olive against the eastern end of the German Gothic Line in Italy, with Polish and Canadian troops on the spearhead. ww2dbase [Gothic Line Offensive | TH, CPC]

• Max Merten received orders to evacuate from Yugoslavia. ww2dbase [Max Merten | CPC]

• Irako departed Moji, Japan as a part of convoy HI-73 at 0630 hours. ww2dbase [Irako | Moji, Fukuoka | CPC]

• Italian motor torpedo boats claimed the sinking of an Allied destroyer in the Mediterranean Sea; this sinking was not confirmed. ww2dbase [CPC]

• USS Tunny arrived in the South China Sea. ww2dbase [Tunny | South China Sea | CPC]

• Allied reconnaissance aircraft flew over Auschwitz Concentration Camp and took photographs of the complex. ww2dbase [Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Oswiecim | CPC]
• The headquarters of NKVD rear guard troops of Soviet 3rd Byelorussian Front ordered Soviet troops to disarm and detain all Polish Home Army troops who were attempting to pass through Soviet lines toward Warsaw, Poland. ww2dbase [Warsaw Uprising | Warsaw | CPC]

• The amount of V-1 flying bombs being sent over the English Channel was now noticeably decreasing as the Allied armies pushed into the Netherlands and captured and destroyed the launching sites. The German Air Force still were able to launch missiles with the Heinkel bombers of III /KG3 which had been moved east-wards to other airfields. Just before midnight a V-1 flying bomb came down in Carrington Road, Dartford, Kent, England, United Kingdom killing 12 people as they slept in their houses. ww2dbase [V-Weapons Campaign | Vergeltungswaffe 1 | Dartford, England | HM]

• King Mihai I of Romania called for war with Germany. ww2dbase [Jassy-Kishinev Offensive and Romania's Surrender | AC]

• Allied convoy JW-59 arrived at the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Murmansk | CPC]

• Kamoi took on a cargo of heavy oil at Singapore and moved to buoy No. 12. ww2dbase [Kamoi | Singapore | CPC]

• US reconnaissance aircraft took photographs of Okayama Airfield and Okayama Aircraft Factory north of Takao (now Kaohsiung), Taiwan. ww2dbase [Okayama Aircraft Factory | Takao | CPC]

• Fleet oiler USS Severn with destroyer escort USS Tabberer transited the Panama Canal into the Pacific. ww2dbase [Henry Plage | Tabberer | Panama Canal | Panama Canal | DS]

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