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• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Singapore. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | CPC]
• Adolf Eichmann ordered the deportation of 18,000 Jews from Budapest, Hungary to concentration camps. ww2dbase [Adolf Eichmann | CPC]
• US Third Army entered Germany proper. ww2dbase [TH]
• US XX Corps surrounded Metz, France. ww2dbase [TH]
• The Ki-83 heavy fighter took its first flight. ww2dbase [Ki-83 | CPC]
• USS Astoria crossed the International Date Line. ww2dbase [Astoria (Cleveland-class) | CPC]
• Antrup Wilhelm was awarded Oak Leaves to his Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Heinrich Höfer was awarded Oak Leaves to his Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. ww2dbase [CPC]

• U-1233 departed Kiel, Germany. ww2dbase [U-1233 | Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein | CPC]

• The C-0101 transport aircraft completed its first operational flight from Chongqing, China to Taipingsi Airport in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China. ww2dbase [C-0101 | Chongqing | CPC]

• Patrol Boat No. 102 arrived at Musa Bay, Fuga, Babuyan Islands at 0006 hours, departing at 0629 hours, and arrived at Currimao in northwestern Luzon at 1623 hours. ww2dbase [Stewart | Fuga | CPC]

• USS Snook arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her seventh war patrol. ww2dbase [Snook | Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
• USS Pollack arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Pollack | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 23 on board. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• Battleship USS Colorado with escorting destroyers USS Renshaw and USS Saufley departed Ulithi, Caroline Islands bound for Leyte, Philippines. ww2dbase [Colorado | Renshaw | Saufley | Ulithi | DS]

• USS Honolulu was floated out of floating drydock ABSD-2 and anchored in Seeadler Harbor, Manus, Admiralty Islands. ww2dbase [Honolulu | Manus, Admiralty Islands | DS]

• USS Sunfish sank Japanese transport Seisho Maru in the East China Sea at 0317 hours. ww2dbase [Seisho Maru | East China Sea | CPC]
• Ships and aircraft from the hunter-killer group built around escort carrier USS Anzio conducted a coordinated attack 350 miles east of the Philippines on the submerged Japanese submarine I-41 commanded by LtCdr Kondo Fumitake. Destroyer escort USS Lawrence C. Taylor launched a successful spread of Hedgehog anti-submarine mortars and the I-41 was lost with all hands. Other ships in the Anzio group were USS Melvin R. Nawman, USS Tabberer, USS Oliver Mitchell, and USS Robert F. Keller. ww2dbase [Anzio | Tabberer | Philippines Campaign, Phase 1, the Leyte Campaign | Henry Plage | Philippine Sea | DS]
• Submarine USS Saury torpedoed and damaged the Japanese merchant Asahi Maru No.11 (approx. 100 tons, heavily damaged) north of the Bonin Islands. ww2dbase [Saury | DS]

• USS Missouri, Texas, Arkansas, Shamrock Bay, and Wake Island completed their transit of the Panama Canal. ww2dbase [Missouri | Panama Canal | Shamrock Bay | Texas | Wake Island | CPC]

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