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• US Ninth Army captured cities of München-Gladback and Rheydt in Germany. On the same day, Dwight Eisenhower approved the commencement of Operation Lumberjack. ww2dbase [Advance to the Rhine | TH, CPC]
• German Armeegruppe Mitte recaptured Lauban, Germany (now Luban, Poland). ww2dbase [TH]
• USS Kete departed Guam, Mariana Islands for her second war patrol. ww2dbase [Kete | CPC]
• Allied troops captured Roermond and Venlo in the Netherlands. ww2dbase [CPC]
• The Japanese Navy 10th Air Fleet was formed as a training unit with three carrier air groups with Vice Admiral Minoru Maeda in command and Rear Admiral Chikao Yamamoto as his chief of staff. ww2dbase [CPC]
• The Japanese 12th Air Fleet was reorganized to contain one air group and one base force. ww2dbase [CPC]
• German 56th Panzer Corps and 34th Panzer Corps commenced Operation Gemse in the Silesian region of Germany (now Poland), surprising Soviet 3rd Guards Tank Army. ww2dbase [Silesian Offensive and the Siege of Breslau | CPC]
• Kurt von Cleve was named the civilian administrator of the Channel Islands. ww2dbase [CPC]
• USS Wasp's aircraft attacked and photographed Japanese positions in the Ryukyu Islands. ww2dbase [Wasp (Essex-class) | CPC]
• Arthur Chin was officially discharged from the Chinese Air Force so he could join the United States Army Air Forces to fly supplies over the "Hump" of the Himalayas into China. ww2dbase [Arthur Chin | CPC]
• USS Nicholas arrived at Subic Bay, Luzon, Philippines. ww2dbase [Nicholas | DS]

• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) entered the anchorage at Ulithi,Caroline Islands for about two weeks. ww2dbase [Yorktown (Essex-class) | Ulithi | DS]

• Submarine USS Tinosa departed Pearl Harbor bound for Saipan where she will begin her ninth war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Tinosa | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]
• USS St. Louis arrived at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | St. Louis | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]

• Test pilot Lothar Sieber became the first pilot to launch a Ba 349 aircraft. The aircraft was launched from the Lager Heuberg base near Stetten am kalten Markt, Germany. After 50 seconds of flight, the aircraft crashed about 5 miles from the launch site, killing Sieber. The cause was either one of four booster rockets failing to function, or a loose canopy that might have fatally injured Sieber. ww2dbase [Ba 349 Natter | CPC]
• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against rail facilities at Neckarsulm, Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | RAF Thurleigh | Neckarsulm | DS]

• Air Group 80 from USS Hancock flew 4 strikes and fighter sqaudron VF-80 flew 1 strike against Amami Oshima, Ryuku Islands; no aircraft were lost. ww2dbase [Albert O. Vorse, Jr. | Hancock | Amami Oshima | DS]
• Tony Stein was killed by a sniper while leading a 19-man patrol to reconnoiter a Japanese machine gun emplacement on Iwo Jima, Japan. ww2dbase [Tony Stein | Iwo Jima | CPC]
• USS Sterlet sank a Japanese transport in the Izu Islands, Japan, hitting her with three of six torpedoes. ww2dbase [Sterlet | Tokyo | CPC]

• British tanks spearheaded the first assault on Meiktila. ww2dbase [Battle of Meiktila-Mandalay | Meiktila | CPC]

• Italian Navy Xa MAS reported a strength of 8,395 men. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Escort carrier USS Card, still in port at Liverpool due to high winds, was struck by the converted liner RMS Empress of Scotland as the troopship was changing berths. Card’s LSO platform and net were damaged. ww2dbase [Card | Liverpool, England | DS]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Manila, Philippine Islands; she hit a mine in the Singapore Strait en route to Manila, but was able to arrive under her own power. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Manila | CPC]
• Destroyer USS Saufley and the convoy she was escorting arrived at the landing beaches at Tilik, Lubang Island, Philippines. After covering the landings, Saufley escorted the ships back to Mindoro, Philippines. ww2dbase [Philippines Campaign, Phase 2 | Saufley | Tilik, Lubang | DS]

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