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• In Copenhagen, Denmark, a V2 Rocket factory was destroyed by saboteurs. ww2dbase [TH]

• USS Barbero arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her second war patrol. ww2dbase [Barbero | Fremantle, Western Australia | CPC]

• Indian 2nd Division reached Yeu and crossed the Mu River in Burma. ww2dbase [Battle of Meiktila-Mandalay | Yeu | CPC]
• Anglo-Indian XV Corps captured Akyab (now Sittwe), Burma without resistance. ww2dbase [Third Battle of Arakan | Akyab | CPC]

• Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, the mastermind behind the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940 and now in charge of Allied ports in France, was killed when his aircraft crashes on take-off at Toussus-le-Noble, becoming the fourth senior Allied leader to die in a plane crash. He was en route to a conference with General Bernard Montgomery in Brussels, Belgium. ww2dbase [Bertram Ramsay | Toussus-le-Noble, Île-de-France | TH]

• Japanese convoy HI-84 arrived at Tourane, Annam, French Indochina at 0105 hours. ww2dbase [Stewart | Awa Maru | Kaiyo | Tourane, Annam | CPC]

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

• USS Missouri and USS Tuscaloosa with USS Bailey, Bancroft and Wadsworth as escorts departed US Territory of Hawaii for Ulithi, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Missouri | Bailey | Tuscaloosa | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | CPC]
• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 53 was formed this date, from Air Groups 42, 43, and 48, which were aboard. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• Gato-class submarine USS Silversides and Tambor-class submarine USS Tautog departed Saipan, Mariana Islands bound for their patrol area. ww2dbase [Tautog | Silversides | Saipan | DS]

• USS Becuna sank two small vessels in the Java Sea in two separate engagements with her deck gun. ww2dbase [Becuna | Java Sea | CPC]
• USS Spot sank a Japanese trawler with her deck gun in the Yellow Sea. ww2dbase [Spot | Yellow Sea | CPC]

• USS Kimberly departed Leyte Gulf, Philippine Islands to screen a battleship group toward Luzon. ww2dbase [Kimberly | Leyte Gulf | CPC]

• Dutch national Gerrit van der Waals, under employment of British SOE but nevertheless placed under arrest by the Soviets in Hungary, was transferred to another prison in Bucharest, Romania. ww2dbase [Bucharest | CPC]

• 46 American B-29 bombers based near Calcutta, India attacked a railroad bridge near Bangkok, Thailand and other targets in the area. ww2dbase [Bangkok | CPC]

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