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• In Germany, US troops entered Bonn while British and Canadian troops entered Xanten. ww2dbase [Advance to the Rhine | TH]
• 1,200 Allied heavy bombers struck 6 benzol plants in Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | CPC]
• US intelligence first detected the new Ohka aircraft at Konoike airfield, Japan and nicknamed them "Viper". ww2dbase [MXY7 Ohka | CPC]
• Richard "Dick" Winters was promoted to the rank of major. ww2dbase [CPC]
• USS Bailey departed Mindoro as a screening vessel for the landing force bound for Zamboanga on Mindanao, Philippines. ww2dbase [Bailey | DS]

• Indian 19th Division began attacking Mandalay Hill near Mandalay, Burma. ww2dbase [Battle of Meiktila-Mandalay | Mandalay, | CPC]

• Ding Delong was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. ww2dbase [Ding Delong | CPC]

• Between 1,070 and 1,150 Hungarian Jews arrived at the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in occupied Czechoslovakia. They were originally deported to the Austrian border in 1944. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Theresienstadt Concentration Camp | Terezín, Cechy | CPC]

• A German commando raid from Guernsey sabotaged three of the four ships in the Normandy harbour at Granville, damaged port facilities and installations including cranes, a railway engine and rolling stock in the docks. A fourth ship, the SS Eskwood, was captured and its crew persuaded to sail it to Jersey. For the loss of one officer missing in action and five soldiers wounded the German raiders retired with 30 captured Americans and 55 freed German prisoners of war found at the docks. ww2dbase [Granville, Basse-Normandie | AC]

• Soviet troops reached the suburbs of Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland). ww2dbase [Silesian Offensive and the Siege of Breslau | TH]
• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against the synthetic oil plant at Gelsenkirchen, Germany. ww2dbase [RAF Thurleigh | Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Gelsenkirchen | DS]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 91 arrived on board. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• Highly secret negotiations began in Switzerland between Allan Dulles of the US Office of Strategic Services, Colonel General Heinrich von Vietinghoff of the German Army, and Obergruppenführer Karl Wolff of the German SS for the possible early surrender of German troops in Italy. ww2dbase [Operation Grapeshot and Operation Roast | TH, CPC]

• USS Segundo pursued a Japanese convoy consisted of 2 freighters and 2 escort vessels in the East China Sea; she was chased away by the escorts before she could attack. ww2dbase [Segundo | East China Sea | CPC]

• USS Nicholas arrived off Zamboanga on Mindanao and began supporting the preparations for the landings there. ww2dbase [Philippines Campaign, Phase 2 | Nicholas | Zamboanga, Mindanao | DS]

• The Soviet Union announced that Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg was likely killed in early 1945 by German occupation troops in Hungary or by Hungarian Arrow Cross Party members. ww2dbase [Raoul Wallenberg | Moscow | CPC]

• Private Karl Hulten, who had deserted from the US 501st Airborne Regiment and subsequently committed a series of crimes in Britain, was hanged at Pentonville Prison. ww2dbase [London, England | AC]

• Jack Heyn arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. ww2dbase [Jack Heyn | San Francisco, California | CPC]

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