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• The United Kingdom stood down the Home Guard. ww2dbase [TH]
• A 60-hour truce began in Dunkirk, France between Allied and German troops to allow the evacuation of civilians. Elsewhere in France, US Third Army began a 10-day attack on Fort Driant, Metz. ww2dbase [TH]
• Katsuragi was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Katsuragi | CPC]
• Sanborn was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Sanborn | CPC]
• The first Messerschmitt Me 262 fighter unit was established at Achmer and Hesepe near Osnabrück, Germany under the command of Austrian-born ace Major Walter Nowotny. The unit had 30 aircraft distributed among two squadrons and was given the task of intercepting USAAF day bomber raids on the heart of Germany. ww2dbase [Me 262 Schwalbe | AC]
• The US submarine Seawolf was sunk by depth charges fired from the destroyer escort USS Richard M. Rowell off Morotai, Maluku Islands, Dutch East Indies. ww2dbase [Seawolf | AC]
• Japanese troops evacuated Tiddim, Burma. ww2dbase [CPC]

• B-25 bombers of US 14th Air Force attacked Tianhe Airfield in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. ww2dbase [Tianhe Airfield | Guangzhou, Guangdong | CPC]

• USS Bergall attacked a small vessel east of French Indochina with her deck gun, causing no damage. ww2dbase [Bergall | South China Sea | CPC]
• 800 miles southeast of Japan, submarine USS Thresher sank the 100-ton Japanese guard boat Nanshin Maru No.28 with gunfire. ww2dbase [Thresher | DS]

• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against Nürnberg, Germany. ww2dbase [RAF Thurleigh | Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Nürnberg | DS]

• Landing ship No. 143 was launched. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]
• Patrol Boat No. 102 departed Kure, Japan at 0800 hours. ww2dbase [Stewart | Kure, Hiroshima | CPC]

• USS Astoria arrived at San Diego, California, United States. ww2dbase [Astoria (Cleveland-class) | San Diego, California | CPC]
• Submarine USS Spearfish departed Mare Island Naval Shipyard bound for Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i following an extensive overhaul. The overhaul included a complete replacement of all four main engines, the complete replacement of her main batteries, repositioning of her deck gun, expanding the number of officers' staterooms, and several lesser improvements. ww2dbase [Spearfish | Vallejo, California | DS]

• A German V-2 rocket hit the Hellesdon Golf Course near Norwich, England, United Kingdom at 1950 hours, injuring 1 person and damaging a glasshouse, 5 farm buildings/barns, several haystacks, and 1 acre of sugar beet. ww2dbase [Vergeltungswaffe 2 | V-Weapons Campaign | Norwich, England | CPC]
• The British Royal Navy's NFIU now received permission to participate in anti V-1 patrols; naval airmen operated from RAF Coltishall in Norfolk, England, United Kingdom to evaluate the Firefly NF.I aircraft against the V-1-carrying Heinkel bombers. ww2dbase [Firefly | V-Weapons Campaign | Coltishall, England | HM]

• German Air Force III/KG 66 at Burg, near Magdeburg, Germany, reported an inventory of 13 Mistel unmanned glide bombs; of which 10 were serviceable. 5 of the aircraft took off on this night to attack the bridges at Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The weather conditions were poor and 3 of the aircraft crashed into the Teutoburger Wald; Oberst Horst Polster, the Staffelkapitän, was killed as were Unteroffizier Fritz Scheffler and Unteroffizier Paul Barinski. The other pilots could not find the target in the fog and yet another was brought down. ww2dbase [V-Weapons Campaign | Vergeltungswaffe 1 | HM]

• Kamoi departed Manila, Philippines with convoy MATA-28, and arrived at Santa Cruz at 1740 hours. ww2dbase [Kamoi | Manila | CPC]

• Submarines USS Silversides, USS Salmon, and USS Trigger arrived at Saipan, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Trigger | Silversides | Salmon | Saipan | DS]

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