11 Jan 1945
- German judge Roland Freisler found Helmuth von Moltke guilty of treason for his works on post-Nazi democracy, and sentenced him to death. ww2dbase [Helmuth von Moltke | CPC]
- USS Puffer fired 2 torpedoes at a Japanese patrol vessel in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan; both torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Puffer | CPC]
- USS Parche attacked a Japanese gunboat east of Taiwan with her deck gun, causing no damage. ww2dbase [Parche | CPC]
- British forces captured La Roche-en-Ardenne, Belgium, northwest of Bastogne. ww2dbase [Battle of the Bulge | La Roche-en-Ardenne | TH]
- S-13 departed Porkkala Naval Base in Porkkalanniemi, Finland. ww2dbase [Alexander Marinesko | Porkkalanniemi | CPC]
- General Ronald Scobie signed a truce between the land forces of Greece and the Central Committee of the E.L.A.S. in Athens, Greece. The truce specified a cessation of hostilities from 14 Jan 1945. ww2dbase [Athens | AC]
- Tatsunosuke Ariizumi met with the officers of Japanese Navy 631st Naval Air Group for the first time. ww2dbase [Tatsunosuke Ariizumi | CPC]
- US Task Force 38 in the South China Sea received orders to bombard a Japanese position on the Cam Ranh Bay in Indochina on the next day. ww2dbase [Raid into the South China Sea | South China Sea | CPC]
- USS Spot sank a small Japanese freighter with her deck gun in the East China Sea 150 kilometers southeast of Shanghai, China. ww2dbase [Spot | East China Sea | CPC]
- Allied convoy RA-63 departed the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Murmansk | CPC]
- Lavrentiy Beria was named the head of a new effort to coordinate the operations of NKVD, NKGB, and SMERSH, thus gaining partial control of all Soviet counterintelligence agencies. ww2dbase [Lavrentiy Beria | Moscow | CPC]
- Soviet NKVD Directorate for Prisoners of War and Interned Persons (UPVI) was upgraded to the status of a main directorate (GUPVI); Ivan Petrov was named its new chief. ww2dbase [CPC]
- B-29 bombers of US 20th Air Force attacked Penang, Malaya. ww2dbase [Penang | CPC]
- The American coastal minesweeper YMS-14 was sunk as a result of a collision with the destroyer USS Hemdon in the north channel of Boston Harbour, Massachusetts, United States. ww2dbase [Boston, Massachusetts | AC]
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