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• 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]
• 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]

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

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

• Damaged cruiser Kumano arrived at Manila, Philippines. ww2dbase [Philippines Campaign, Phase 1, the Leyte Campaign | Kumano | Yukikaze | Manila | DS]
• Nachi arrived at Manila Bay, Philippine Islands and entered drydock at No. 103 Repair Facility at Cavite for repairs. ww2dbase [Nachi | Cavite | CPC]
• 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]
• 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]

• US medic James Okubo, fighting in the forest Forêt Domaniale de Champ near Biffontaine, Lorraine, eastern France, was credited with the treatment of 17 fellow Americans while under German fire that day. ww2dbase [James Okubo | Bois-de-Champ, Lorraine | CPC]

• USS Sea Cat departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. ww2dbase [Sea Cat | 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]

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

• Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Steamer Bay arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Steamer Bay | Ulithi | DS]

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

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

• 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 [Philippines Campaign, Phase 1, the Leyte Campaign | Belleau Wood | Gridley | Helm | DS]
• The 50,000th carrier landing for USS Ranger occurred during carrier training off the California coast. ww2dbase [Ranger | 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 [Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Oswiecim | CPC]

• HMS King George V departed Scapa Flow, Scotland, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [King George V | Scapa Flow | Scapa Flow, Scotland | 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]
• Roddie Edmonds and the 422nd Infantry Regiment, 106th Infantry Division arrived from the United States at Cotswolds in the English Midlands, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Roddie Edmonds | Witney, England | DS]

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

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