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History on the year of 1945

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01 Jan 1945 WW2 Some time during this month, Oberleutnant Otto Wermuth took command of German submarine U-530. 
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01 Jan 1945 WW2 Fregattenkapitän Frotz-Henning Brandes took command of cruiser Köln. 
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01 Jan 1945 WW2 Air Vice Marshal J. W. Baker became the commanding officer of the No. 12 Group RAF. 
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01 Jan 1945 WW2 When his 9 Squadron Lancaster bomber from Bardney was hit and set on fire in a raid on the Dortmund-Ems canal, wireless operator RAF Flight Sergeant George Thompson gallantly braved the flames to save his mid-upper and rear gunners who were trapped in the inferno. The rear gunner later recovered but Thompson's burns were so severe that three weeks later he developed pneumonia and died in a hospital. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. 
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01 Jan 1945 WW2 US aircraft attacked Japanese airfields on Negros Island, Philippine Islands. 
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01 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Kete began lifeguard duty off Ryukyu Islands, Japan. 
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01 Jan 1945 WW2 Otto Skorzeny departed Cologne, Germany to return to the field headquarters of German Armored Brigade 150. 
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01 Jan 1945 WW2 Captain Chuzaburo Yamazumi was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Navy 3rd Air Fleet. 
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01 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island arrived at Kossol Roads, Palau Islands, loaded ammunition and other supplies, and departed for the Philippine Islands. 
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01 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Pintado arrived in Brisbane, Australia, ending her third war patrol. 
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01 Jan 1945 WW2 German submarine control requested a position report from U-869, which did not respond. 
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01 Jan 1945 WW2 Heinz Guderian requested Adolf Hitler to allow reinforcements to be sent to German units in Hungary and Poland. 
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01 Jan 1945 WW2 German troops began a withdrawal from the Ardennes Forest in the Belgian-German border region. Meanwhile, in retaliation for the Malmedy massacre, US troops massacred 30 SS prisoners at Chenogne, Belgium. In the air, the German Luftwaffe launched Unternehmen Bodenplatte, which consisted of 800 aircraft conducting low-level strikes against snow-bound Allied airfields in the Netherlands and Belgium. They destroyed 220 aircraft, mainly on the ground, but lost 188 aircraft of their own, as well as many experienced pilots who could not be replaced. This operation failed to achieve its goal of wiping out Allied air power based in the region. 
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01 Jan 1945 WW2 US Army troops landed on Fais Island in the Caroline Islands to capture and destroy a Japanese radio station. 
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01 Jan 1945 WW2 Xiao Yisu was awarded the Order of Blue Sky and White Sun. 
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01 Jan 1945 WW2 Fairey Firefly Fighters from the No. 1770 Squadron FAA, recently arrived in Ceylon to join the British Pacific Fleet, attacked the Japanese-held oil refineries at Pangkalan Brandan, Sumatra, Dutch East Indies using rocket projectiles (RP). 
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01 Jan 1945 WW2 19 American B-24 bombers based in Saipan, Mariana Islands struck Japanese positions at Iwo Jima. 
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01 Jan 1945 WW2 Five Japanese submarines departed Inland Sea, Japan with Kaiten submarines aboard. I-36 sailed for Ulithi in the Caroline Islands, I-48 for Hollandia in New Guinea, I-53 for Palau Islands, I-56 for the Admiralty Islands, and I-58 for Guam in the Mariana Islands. 
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01 Jan 1945 WW2 US aircraft attacked Clark Field on Luzon Island of the Philippine Islands. 
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01 Jan 1945 WW2 100 male and 100 female Polish prisoners of the Gestapo from block 11 in Auschwitz I camp were transferred by SS doctor Fritz Klein to the chief of Auschwitz II-Birkenau Crematorium V Erich Muhsfeldt. Muhsfeldt's men executed these police prisoners by firing squad. 
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02 Jan 1945 WW2 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. 
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02 Jan 1945 WW2 In Copenhagen, Denmark, a V2 Rocket factory was destroyed by saboteurs. 
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02 Jan 1945 WW2 46 American B-29 bombers based near Calcutta, India attacked a railroad bridge near Bangkok, Thailand and other targets in the area. 
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02 Jan 1945 WW2 British bombers attacked Nürnberg, Germany. 
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02 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Becuna sank two small vessels between Malaya and Borneo in two separate engagements with her deck gun. 
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02 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Barbero arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her second war patrol. 
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02 Jan 1945 WW2 Indian 2nd Division reached Yeu and crossed the Mu River in Burma. 
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02 Jan 1945 WW2 Anglo-Indian XV Corps captured Akyab (now Sittwe), Burma without resistance. 
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02 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Missouri departed US Territory of Hawaii for Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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02 Jan 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 53 was formed this date, from Air Groups 42, 43, and 48, which were aboard. 
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02 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Spot sank a Japanese trawler with her deck gun in the Yellow Sea. 
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02 Jan 1945 WW2 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. 
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03 Jan 1945 WW2 In preparation for the attacks on Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and mainland Japan, Admiral Nimitz was given command of all involved naval forces, while General MacArthur was placed in command of all ground forces. 
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03 Jan 1945 WW2 German submarine control expressed "considerable anxiety" over the fate of U-869, which had not responded to requests for report for the past four to five days. Meanwhile, around the same time, the Americans had intercepted enough German radio messages to deduce that a German submarine was heading toward New York City, New York, United States and began to assemble a hunter-killer group to intercept it. 
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03 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Hoe arrved at Fremantle, Australia, ending her seventh war patrol. 
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03 Jan 1945 WW2 US First Army launched an attack on the northern flank of the Ardennes bulge in Belgium. Meanwhile, 1,100 Allied bombers, escorted by 11 fighter groups, bombed railroad and communications centers in western Germany. 
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03 Jan 1945 WW2 57 American B-29 bombers attacked Nagoya, Japan, while 21 other bombers attacked other Japanese cities. 
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03 Jan 1945 WW2 Light carrier Hosho conducted a training exercise at Kure, Japan. 
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03 Jan 1945 WW2 Settsu was assigned to target and aircraft training duties at Kure, Japan. 
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03 Jan 1945 WW2 14 SB2C-3, 6 TBM-3, and 12 F6F-5 aircraft of Air Group 80 from USS Ticonderoga attacked Taichu Airfield in central Taiwan; six of the SB2C aircraft turned back after running into poor weather, one of the F6F aircraft became lost and joined fighters from USS Wasp in the strafing of a train, and two of the TBM-3 aircraft got lost and joined another group in the attacking of Suo (now Suao). On a separate mission later on this day, Air Group 80 conducted a fighter sweep over Koryu Airfield on Taiwan; Ensign Philip Manella's F6F fighter was shot down, forcing him to bail out, and his wingman Lieutenant (jg) R. C. Wagg reported that the parachute was strafed by Japanese fighters. 
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03 Jan 1945 WW2 In the Philippine Islands, the forward elements of the American invasion fleet for Luzon passed through the Surigao Strait. In support, aircraft of Task Fleet 38 struck Japanese airfields in Taiwan. 
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03 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island transited the Surigao Strait in the Philippine Islands. 
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03 Jan 1945 WW2 6 TBM-1C aircraft and 12 F6F-5 fighters, both of Air Group 44 from USS Langley, attacked Hokuto Airfield (referred by the Americans as "Keishu Airfield") in Hokuto (now Beidou) in central Taiwan with 60 100-pound bombs, rockets, and strafing. No Japanese aircraft rose to defend. 
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03 Jan 1945 WW2 18 F6F-5 fighters of Air Group 81 from USS Wasp attacked Koryu Airfield in Taiwan with rockets, bombs, and strafing; no Japanese fighters rose to defend. These attacking fighters regrouped over Taiwan Strait after the attack, flew back over Taiwan, and attacked targets of opportunity; they sank a small fishing boat along the coast, destroying a cargo train (carrying oil) at present day Dashan Station of Houlong Township, and heavily damaging a 10-car passenger train further northeast. A separate group of 4 F6F-5 fighters of the same air group conducted a photographic reconnaissance mission over Koryu Airfield, Shinchiku Airfield, and Koko Airfield in Taiwan. 
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03 Jan 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit the Royal Hospital in Chelsea, London, England, United Kingdom at 0850 hours, killing 5 and injuring 19. 
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04 Jan 1945 WW2 Operation Lentil: British aircraft attacked oil refineries at Pangkalan Brandon, Sumatra. 
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04 Jan 1945 WW2 In the Philippine Islands, Japanese aircraft attacked the American invasion fleet bound for Luzon; USS Ommaney Bay was seriously damaged by a special attack and was scuttled. 
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04 Jan 1945 WW2 An aircraft from USS Wake detected a Japanese floatplane in the water off Panay Island, Philippine Islands and strafed the Japanese aircraft. 
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04 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Puffer sank a Japanese vessel in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes fired. 
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04 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Whale searched for survivors of a downed B-29 Superfortress bomber east of Tokyo, Japan without success. 
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04 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Ticonderoga launched Air Group 80 aircraft for strikes on Taiwan. 
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04 Jan 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit Woodland Street in Hackney, London, England, United Kingdom. 
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04 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Dragonet arrived at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States for repairs. 
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05 Jan 1945 WW2 In the Philippine Islands, Japanese aircraft attacked the American invasion fleet bound for Luzon. Special attack aircraft damaged cruiser USS Louisville, Australian cruiser HMAS Australia, destroyer USS Helm, destroyer USS Stafford, Australian destroyer HMAS Arunta, escort carrier USS Manila Bay, and escort carrier USS Savo Island. Meanwhile, American aircraft sunk Japanese destroyers Momi and damaged destroyers Hinoki and Sugi west of Manila Bay. 
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05 Jan 1945 WW2 Three American light cruisers and nine destroyers bombarded various targets in the Kurile Islands. 
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05 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island took on 19 survivors of sunken USS Ommaney Bay. In the afternoon, the task group she sailed with was subjected to heavy air attacks; her anti-aircraft gun crews claimed three Japanese aircraft shot down. 
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05 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Hawkbill arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her second war patrol. 
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05 Jan 1945 WW2 Aircraft from USS Marcus Island damaged a Japanese midget submarine in the Mindanao Sea in the Philippine Islands. 
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05 Jan 1945 WW2 The German attack on Bastogne, Belgium was called off. 
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05 Jan 1945 WW2 28 P-40N and P-51D fighters of the US 14th Air Force from Laohekou, Hubei, China attacked the Japanese airfield at Wuhan in the same province, destroying 50 Japanese aircraft in the air and on the ground. One Chinese fighter was shot down. 
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05 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Sennet departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. 
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05 Jan 1945 WW2 American cruisers, destroyers, and carrier aircraft attacked the Bonin Islands. At Iwo Jima, a Japanese landing ship was sunk by destroyer fire. At Chichi Jima, destroyer USS Fanning sank a Japanese freighter by gunfire and a torpedo, while destroyer USS David W. Taylor was damaged by a mine. 
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05 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Boarfish departed Saipan, Mariana Islands. 
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05 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Whale searched for survivors of a downed B-29 Superfortress bomber east of Tokyo, Japan without success. 
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05 Jan 1945 WW2 The last session of the police summary court of the Kattowitz Gestapo took place in block 11 in Auschwitz I camp. Around 100 Polish prisoners were condemned to death, to be executed by firing squad on the next day. The court was presided by Johannes Thuemmler. These prisoners were under the jurisdiction of the Gestapo and not of the commandant of the concentration camp. 
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05 Jan 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit the golf course at Croydon, London, England, United Kingdom, making a crater 40 feet wide. 
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05 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Segundo arrived at Apra, Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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06 Jan 1945 WW2 With its war over, Finland lifted the ban on dancing, which was made illegal during the war. 
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06 Jan 1945 WW2 Battleship New Mexico was struck by Japanese special attack aircraft in the Philippine Islands; among the men killed were members of an observing British military mission, including Lieutenant General Herbert Lumsden, Winston Churchill's personal military representative to General of the Army Douglas MacArthur. 
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06 Jan 1945 WW2 Japanese special attack aircraft sank minesweeper USS Long at Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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06 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Sea Robin sank the Japanese tanker Tarakan Maru in the Luzon Strait, hitting her with 2 of 3 torpedoes fired. She also fired another 9 torpedoes at a destroyer and another tanker, but none of them struck their targets. 
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06 Jan 1945 WW2 U-869 reported in to German submarine control, revealing its location to be 600 miles southwest of Iceland to both her German comrades as well as to American eavesdroppers. 
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06 Jan 1945 WW2 George Bush married Barbara Pierce. 
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06 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Pompon departed Majuro, Marshall Islands. 
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06 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Whale set sail for Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii via Midway Atoll. 
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06 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Columbia was struck by two special attack aircraft off the Philippine Islands. The second aircraft and its bomb penetrated two decks before the bomb detonated. 13 were killed and 44 were wounded. 
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06 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Ticonderoga launched Air Group 80 aircraft for strikes on Japanese positions in northern Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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06 Jan 1945 WW2 Four Jewish women, Ella Gartner, Róza Robota, Regina Safir, and Estera Wajsblum, were executed by hanging in the female camp of Auschwitz Concentration Camp; they had smuggled explosives out of their workplace which were used during the 7 Oct 1944 uprising in the camp. About 100 other Auschwitz prisoners were also executed on this date, having sentenced to death by the Kattowitz Gestapo on the previous day; they faced a firing squad at Auschwitz II-Birkenau and were sent to Crematorium V. These prisoners were among the last to be executed at Auschwitz. 
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07 Jan 1945 WW2 The RaLa Experiment of the Manhattan Project conducted its first test using exploding bridgewire detonators. 
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07 Jan 1945 WW2 Light cruiser USS Dayton (CL-105) was commissioned with Captain Paul William Steinhagen in command. 
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07 Jan 1945 WW2 US ace Major Thomas McGuire (38 victories) was killed in a low level combat with a group of Japanese Zero fighters led by Shiochi Sugita, the third-highest scoring ace of the Japanese Navy Air Force over Los Negros island. It was believed that McGuire failed to release his drop tanks whilst attempting a fast turn which caused his P-38 to stall and spin into the ground in a ball of fire. 
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07 Jan 1945 WW2 Masafumi Arima was posthumously promoted to the rank of vice admiral. 
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07 Jan 1945 WW2 Anglo-Indian troops reached the outskirts of Shwebo, Burma. 
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07 Jan 1945 WW2 The German Navy began the first of a series of evacuation convoys between the Gulf of Danzig and the trapped German Army in Latvia. 
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07 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Spot sank two small Japanese trawlers with her deck gun in the Yellow Sea. 
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07 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Ticonderoga launched Air Group 80 aircraft for strikes on Japanese positions in northern Luzon, Philippine Islands; 4 men and 2 aircraft were lost. 
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08 Jan 1945 WW2 Light cruiser USS Amsterdam (CL-101) was commissioned with Captain Andrew P. Lawton in command. 
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08 Jan 1945 WW2 HMAS Australia was damaged by Japanese special attack aircraft at Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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08 Jan 1945 WW2 The Japanese Navy 2nd Air Fleet was officially disbanded after suffering major losses in the Philippine Islands. 
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08 Jan 1945 WW2 Rear Admiral Bunji Asakura was named the chief of staff of the Japanese 1st Southern Expeditionary Fleet. 
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08 Jan 1945 WW2 Vice Admiral Minoru Tayui was named the commanding officer of the Japanese 1st Southern Expeditionary Fleet. 
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08 Jan 1945 WW2 Another unpowered J8M Shusui/Ki-200 aircraft took flight, with water ballast installed in place of the rocket engine. 
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08 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Marcus Island's air group shot down four Japanese aircraft. 
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08 Jan 1945 WW2 Soviet 5th Army formally granted Roza Shanina the permission to fight on the front lines. 
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08 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Brill arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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08 Jan 1945 WW2 I-401 was commissioned into service at Sasebo, Japan under the command of Lieutenant Commander Nobukiyo Nambu. The ceremony was attended by very few, as she was a top secret submarine. She departed Sasebo later in the same day for the Inland Sea. 
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08 Jan 1945 WW2 Allied convoy JW-63 arrived at the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. 
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08 Jan 1945 WW2 The US Fast Carrier Task Force refueled then sailed toward Taiwan. 
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08 Jan 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit the junction of LMS and Met. railway lines behind 114 Iverson Road between West End Lane and Kilburn High Road in Hampstead, London, England, United Kingdom at 1630 hours. 2 were killed, 64 seriously injured, and 57 lightly injured. The rocket destroyed 14 houses, badly damaged 152 houses, and lightly damaged 1,600 houses. 
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08 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Springer departed Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States. 
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09 Jan 1945 WW2 The US Sixth Army invaded Luzon Island, Philippine Islands. 
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09 Jan 1945 WW2 British troops entered Thebes, Greece. 
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09 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Mississippi was damaged by Japanese special attack aircraft at Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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09 Jan 1945 WW2 HMAS Australia was damaged by Japanese special attack aircraft at Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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09 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Colorado was damaged by friendly fire at Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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09 Jan 1945 WW2 Heinz Guderian visited Adolf Hitler to personally request reinforcements for the Eastern Front. The two would get into a large argument. 
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09 Jan 1945 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho, sailing with Japanese convoy HI-87, came under air attack off Taiwan and claimed to have enaged 12 US TBF aircraft and shot down 1. 
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09 Jan 1945 WW2 ShCh-307 attacked a merchant ship southwest of Liepaja, Latvia; both torpedoes missed, and ShCh-307 was subjected to depth charging by German auxiliary patrol vessel V 317. 
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09 Jan 1945 WW2 US Third Army attacked towards Houffalize, Belgium, on the southern flank of the Ardennes bulge. 
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09 Jan 1945 WW2 Indian 19th Division captured Shwebo, Burma. 
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09 Jan 1945 WW2 Dong Zhao completed his studies at the Army War College and was named the commanding officer of the 38th Army. 
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09 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Sennet received minor repairs at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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09 Jan 1945 WW2 15 SB2C, 6 TBM, and 7 F6F aircraft from USS Ticonderoga attacked their secondary target Heito Airfield in southern Taiwan (the primary target, Toyohara Arfield in the Taichu area, was covered in clouds), damaging the facilities at the loss of a SB2C aircraft of Air Group 80 crewed by Lieutenant Palmer and Aviation Radioman's Mate Third Class Adelbert Ring. 
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09 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Columbia was struck by a special attack aircraft off the Philippine Islands, killing 24 and wounding 97. 
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09 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Luce arrived off Lingayen Gulf, Philippine Islands. 
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09 Jan 1945 WW2 US Navy Task Force 38 attacked airfields on the Japanese-held Chinese island of Taiwan. 
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09 Jan 1945 WW2 39 USAAF B-29 bombers from Sichuan Province, China dropped 293 tons of bombs on Kirun (now Keelung), Taiwan. 
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09 Jan 1945 WW2 Henry Heimlich accepted a volunteer mission; he would not find out until later that he was destined for the interior of China. 
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10 Jan 1945 WW2 Female prisoners of Uckermark Concentration Camp who were not able to work were exterminated. 
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10 Jan 1945 WW2 German 7.Gebirgs Division retreated from Lätäseno, Finland. 
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10 Jan 1945 WW2 Heavy cruiser USS Chicago (CA-136) was commissioned with Captain Richard R. Hartung in command. 
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10 Jan 1945 WW2 A Japanese Army special attack aircraft damaged USS Le Ray Wilson in the Philippine Islands. 
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10 Jan 1945 WW2 45 Japanese Army Renraku-tei special attack boats attacked American ships in Lingayen Gulf, Philippine Islands, sinking 2 LCI gunboats and damaged a few others. 
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10 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Puffer attacked a Japanese convoy in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, expending 17 torpedoes and observing 8 hits. She claimed the sinking of an oiler, a freighter,and a destroyer, but ultimately was only given credit for the sinking of Japanese Coast Defense Vessel No. 42. 
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10 Jan 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: The first 2 enlisted WAVES arrived for duty this date. 
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10 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Ticonderoga and the other ships of Task Force 38 entered the South China Sea via Bashi Channel. 
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11 Jan 1945 WW2 German judge Roland Freisler found Helmuth von Moltke guilty of treason for his works on post-Nazi democracy, and sentenced him to death. 
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11 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Puffer fired 2 torpedoes at a Japanese patrol vessel in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan; both torpedoes missed. 
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11 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Parche attacked a Japanese gunboat east of Taiwan with her deck gun, causing no damage. 
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11 Jan 1945 WW2 British forces captured La Roche-en-Ardenne, Belgium, northwest of Bastogne. 
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11 Jan 1945 WW2 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. 
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11 Jan 1945 WW2 Tatsunosuke Ariizumi met with the officers of Japanese Navy 631st Naval Air Group for the first time. 
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11 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Spot sank a small Japanese freighter with her deck gun in the East China Sea 150 kilometers southeast of Shanghai, China. 
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11 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Luce shot down a Japanese aircraft off Lingayen Gulf, Philippine Islands. She set sail toward San Pedro Bay later in the day. 
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11 Jan 1945 WW2 Allied convoy RA-63 departed the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. 
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11 Jan 1945 WW2 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. 
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11 Jan 1945 WW2 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. 
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11 Jan 1945 WW2 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. 
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12 Jan 1945 WW2 The Operation Nordwind offensive into France was finally stopped just 13 miles from Strasbourg. In Belgium, north of Bastogne, US and British forces linked up near La Roche-en-Ardenne. 
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12 Jan 1945 WW2 General Erik Heinrichs was placed in charge of Finland's defense forces. 
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12 Jan 1945 WW2 Soviet forces launched an offensive with 2,000,000 men from bridgeheads of the Vistula River in Poland toward the Oder River in eastern Germany. On the same day, three Soviet armies encircled Warsaw, Poland. 
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12 Jan 1945 WW2 The Japanese Army launched its final special attack mission in the Philippine Islands area. 
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12 Jan 1945 WW2 The US submarine Swordfish became missing, presumably sunk by either Japanese depth charges or in a minefield, off Okinawa, Japan. 
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12 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Baya arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her second war patrol. 
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12 Jan 1945 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho departed for Japan. 
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12 Jan 1945 WW2 Men of the British No. 42 (Royal Marine) Commando landed in southeastern Myebon Peninsula, Burma. 
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12 Jan 1945 WW2 Kaiten submarines launched by Japanese submarines I-36, I-53, I-56, and I-58 struck targets at Ulithi in the Caroline Islands, Palau Islands, Admiralty Islands, and Guam in the Mariana Islands, respectively. The motherships reported 18 sinkings total, but actual damage done was far less and no ship was sunk. 
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12 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Ticonderoga and other Task Force 38 carriers launched aircraft that sank 44 Japanese ships off of Indochina, totaling 130,000 tons; Ticonderoga lost 1 aircraft. Part of the pre-launch intelligence was provided by agents of Katiou Meynier, who observed a 26-ship convoy enter Cam Ranh Bay, although no such convoy was found specifically. Hoang's intelligence reached the US Navy via the Sino-American Special Technical Cooperative Organization (SACO) in China. 
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12 Jan 1945 WW2 La Motte-Picquet was sunk at Saigon, French Indochina by US carrier aircraft of Task Force 38. 
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12 Jan 1945 WW2 Kashii, sailing in convoy off Indochina, was sunk by American SB2C Helldiver dive bombers and TBF Avenger torpedo bombers. Only 19 out of her complement of 640 survived. 
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12 Jan 1945 WW2 The first over-land supply convoy to reach China from India departed Ledo, India. 
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12 Jan 1945 WW2 Tatsunosuke Ariizumi arrived at Tokyo, Japan. 
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12 Jan 1945 WW2 The German Navy U-Boat pens at Bergen, Norway were attacked by a force of 32 Lancaster and one Mosquito aircraft, drawn from Nos. 9 and 617 Squadrons RAF, both units being experienced in the use of "Tallboy" bombs. Contemporary reports recorded that three "Tallboy" bombs caused serious damage to the U-Boat pens after penetrating their 3.5-meter concrete roof. Two submarines suffered minor damage, a cargo ship was severely damaged and a minesweeper was sunk. Four Lancaster bombers were lost (one from No. 9 Squadron and the others from No. 617 Squadron). 
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12 Jan 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit a row of cottages in Ilford, London, England, United Kingdom. 17 were killed and 60 were injured. 
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12 Jan 1945 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt departed Washington DC, United States for Hyde Park, New York, United States by train; Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd accompanied him on this journey. 
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13 Jan 1945 WW2 German Armeegruppe E finished its withdrawal from Greece and Albania. 
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13 Jan 1945 WW2 At least 70 Germans were killed when Norwegian saboteurs destroyed the Jørstad Bridge near Snåsa, Norway. 
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13 Jan 1945 WW2 Vice Admiral Shigeru Fukudome was named the commanding officer of the Japanese 1st Southern Expeditionary Fleet. 
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13 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island was attacked by two Japanese aircraft in Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippine Islands; she shot down one, but suffered a bomb hit by the second. 
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13 Jan 1945 WW2 US First Army attacked near Stavelot and Malmédy in Belgium. 
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13 Jan 1945 WW2 1st Byelorussian Front advanced toward Pillkallen, Germany (now Dobrovolsk, Russia), meeting heavy resistance from the German 3rd Panzer Army. 
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13 Jan 1945 WW2 Raoul Wallenberg approached troops of 7th Guards Army of Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front in Budapest, Hungary and requested to meet with Marshal Rodion Malinovsky in regards to the 7,000 Jews in Pest who were under his care. 
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13 Jan 1945 WW2 Another M6A Seiran aircraft was completed by Aichi. 
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13 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Spot sank two Japanese trawlers with her deck gun in the East China Sea 150 kilometers southeast of Shanghai, China. 
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13 Jan 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit West Ham, London, England, United Kingdom, destroying two trolley buses. 15 were killed and 35 were injured. 
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14 Jan 1945 WW2 Operation Blackcock: British forces cleared the Roer Triangle in Germany, which was known for dams that powered the German industry. 
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14 Jan 1945 WW2 The RaLa Experiment of the Manhattan Project conducted its second test using exploding bridgewire detonators. 
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14 Jan 1945 WW2 Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front crossed the Nida River and moved toward Radomsko and the Warta River in central Poland. 
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14 Jan 1945 WW2 Hauptmann Alfred Banholzer of the German Kampfgeschwader 55 wing was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. 
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14 Jan 1945 WW2 Dwight Eisenhower wrote to George Marshall recommending Omar Bradley to be promoted to the rank of a full general, citing Bradley's past success and the need to close the rank gap between Bradley and British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. 
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14 Jan 1945 WW2 After sundown, Indian 19th Division crossed the Irrawady River near Kyaukmyaung, Burma, 20 miles south of Thabeikkyin and 40 miles north of Mandalay. 
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14 Jan 1945 WW2 Soviet 2nd Byelorussian Front launched its winter offensive from the Narev bridgehead toward Elbing, Germany (now Elblag, Poland). 
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14 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Spot sank two Japanese trawlers with her deck gun in the East China Sea 150 kilometers southeast of Shanghai, China. 
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14 Jan 1945 WW2 54 USAAF B-29 bombers from Sichuan Province, China attacked Kagi Airfield in southern Taiwan. 
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15 Jan 1945 WW2 German report noted that the total number of prisoners in concentration camps was 714,211; there were about 40,000 guards at the camps. 
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15 Jan 1945 WW2 36 US Navy F4U fighters and several New Zealand fighters took off from Green Islands east of Australian Papua and attacked the Toboi wharf area of Rabaul, New Britain and the nearby floatplane anchorage. 7 aircraft were lost to poor weather en route back to Green Islands. 
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15 Jan 1945 WW2 Adolf Hitler ordered Panzerkorps Grossdeutschland to move from East Prussia, Germany to Poland to counter the Soviet Vistula-Oder Offensive. This counterattack would be repulsed by the Soviet 1st Byelorussian Front. 
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15 Jan 1945 WW2 Adolf Hitler departed the Adlerhorst headquarters in Wetterau, Germany, returning to Berlin. 
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15 Jan 1945 WW2 Roza Shanina reached Eydtkuhnen, Ostpreußen (East Prussia), Germany (now Chernyshevskoye, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia). 
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15 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Whale arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her tenth war patrol. 
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15 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Sunfish departed Majuro, Marshall Islands for her tenth war patrol. 
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15 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Ticonderoga launched Air Group 80 aircraft for strikes on Taiwan, hitting Kaneka Soda Company chemical plant (mis-identified as a magnesium plant) in Tainan, among other targets. 1 aircraft was lost on this day. 
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15 Jan 1945 WW2 The Inrin Temporary Prisoners of War Camp in central Taiwan was closed. 
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15 Jan 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit Rainham, London, England, United Kingdom at about 2345, killing 14 and seriously injuring 4. 
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15 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Iowa arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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16 Jan 1945 WW2 US First and Third Armies linked up near Houffalize, Belgium, while British Second Army attacked near Maas River. The Germans were pushed back to the line prior to the launch of the Ardennes Offensive. 
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16 Jan 1945 WW2 HMS King George V departed Trincomalee, Ceylon. 
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16 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Ticonderoga launched Air Group 80 aircraft for strikes on Hainan island in southern China; 5 men and 3 aircraft were lost. 
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16 Jan 1945 WW2 Adolf Hitler arrived in Berlin, Germany, and would remain here until the end of his life. 
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16 Jan 1945 WW2 Roza Shanina wrote in her diary "What I've actually done? No more than I have to as a Soviet man, having stood up to defend the motherland." 
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16 Jan 1945 WW2 US aircraft attacked Hong Kong harbor. Japanese sources noted 1,000 civilian deaths and 3,000 wounded, although these numbers were likely to be inflated. 
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16 Jan 1945 WW2 Soviet foreign office in Budapest, Hungary told Sweden that Raoul Wallenberg was in Soviet custody. 
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16 Jan 1945 WW2 ShCh-307 sank German merchant ship Henrietta Schulze southwest of Liepaja, Latvia. 
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16 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Luce arrived at San Pedro Bay, Philippine Islands. 
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16 Jan 1945 WW2 Soviet troops liberated concentration camps at Czestochowa (800 prisoners) and Lodz (870 prisoners) in Poland. 
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16 Jan 1945 WW2 German troops evacuated Kielce, Poland. 
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16 Jan 1945 WW2 Aircraft from USS Enterprise struck neutral Portuguese Macau, destroying stores of aviation fuel at the Naval Aviation Center. 
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17 Jan 1945 WW2 US Navy intelligence estimated that the German submarine sailing for New York City waters off the east coast of the United States, U-869, would arrive in early Feb 1945. 
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17 Jan 1945 WW2 Japanese forces in Burma began organizing counterattacks against the latest Anglo-Indian offensive. 
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17 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Guitarro arrvied at Mios Woendi, Biak Islands, Dutch East Indies and received repairs. 
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17 Jan 1945 WW2 Roza Shanina wrote a letter to a friend, in which she noted that she might be on the verge of being killed in combat as the numbers of her battalion dwindled. 
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17 Jan 1945 WW2 Salonika in Greece was occupied by British troops. 
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17 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Puffer arrived at Guam, Mariana Islands, ending her sixth war patrol. 
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17 Jan 1945 WW2 The encircled Axis garrison in Budapest, Hungary withdrew across the Danube River to Buda. 
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17 Jan 1945 WW2 Raoul Wallenberg was transferred out of Budapest, Hungary for Moscow, Russia by the order of Joseph Stalin's deputy Nikolai Bulganin. 
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17 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island was detached from Task Group 77.14. 
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17 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Shamrock Bay completed her duties off Luzon, Philippine Islands and set sail for Ulithi, Caroline Islands as a part of Task Group 77.14. 
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17 Jan 1945 WW2 After crossing the Warthe River, Soviet troops expanded their bridgehead to 160 miles wide and 100 miles deep, causing the Germans to evacuate Warsaw, Poland (which would soon be occupied by Soviet forces) and Chelmno Extermination Camp; on the same day, Soviet forces also captured Kielce. Angry at the abandonment of Warsaw, Adolf Hitler sacked General Smilo von Lüttwitz and General Walter Fries. Meanwhile, Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev received orders to move toward the Upper Silesia region. 
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17 Jan 1945 WW2 67,012 prisoners were present at Auschwitz Concentration Camp's last evening roll call; they would soon embark on the Death March. Meanwhile, Nazi doctor Josef Mengele began to destroy his laboratories at sector BIIf of Birkenau camp; he would soon evacuate the camp with records of his experiments on twins, dwarfs, and disabled people. 
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17 Jan 1945 WW2 USAAF XX Bomber Command launched 90 or 92 B-29 bombers from Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China against Shinchiku Airfield in northern Taiwan; 78 or 79 of them made it over to the target area, damaging hangars, barracks, and other buildings. This was to be the final B-29 mission against Taiwan. 
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17 Jan 1945 WW2 Submarine Mero was launched at Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States, sponsored by the wife of Henry G. Taylor. 
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17 Jan 1945 WW2 Henry Arnold suffered his fourth heart attack. 
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18 Jan 1945 WW2 Allied aircraft attacked Japanese positions at Monywa, Burma while the Indian 20th Division assaulted the port city on the Chindwin River. 
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18 Jan 1945 WW2 German forces launched an offensive from around Lake Balaton, aimed at relieving the Budapest encirclement in Hungary. Meanwhile, Soviet forces liberated the Budapest ghetto. 
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18 Jan 1945 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho arrived at Kure, Japan at 0930 hours. 
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18 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Spot fired two torpedoes at a Japanese boat in the Yellow Sea; both torpedoes missed. 
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18 Jan 1945 WW2 66,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz Concentration Camp were transferred into Germany. 
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18 Jan 1945 WW2 German troops evacuated Kraków, Poland. Soviet troops reached Lódz, Poland. 
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18 Jan 1945 WW2 The British government reported that, as of Nov 1944, British forces suffered 282,162 killed, 80,580 missing, 386,374 wounded, and 294,438 captured. 
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18 Jan 1945 WW2 Royal Scots Fusilier Dennis Donnini became the youngest man to win a Victoria Cross during WW2. In an action at Roermond, the Netherlands the 19-years-old Fusilier (only 4-ft 10-in tall), despite having been hit on the head by a ricocheting bullet bravely charged a German position and destroyed it with grenades, being wounded again in the process. Later to allow his comrades to outflank a second German position, he stood in the open blazing away with a Bren gun until he was killed by a chance bullet that hit a grenade he was about to throw, blowing him up. Fusilier Donnini was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for his valour. Donnini's brother had died of war wounds in 1944 and a second sibling has been a prisoner of war since Dunkirk. 
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18 Jan 1945 WW2 Prime Minister Winston Churchill, in a speech before the House of Commons, announced that "US troops have done almost all the fighting (in the Ardennes) suffering losses equal to those of both sides at the Battler of Gettysburg". This was interpreted by many as a direct and insulting attack on the abilities of Bernard Montgomery and the British fighting forces in Europe. 
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18 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Alabama entered a drydock at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, United States. 
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19 Jan 1945 WW2 The Germans began evacuating civilians from Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland). 
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19 Jan 1945 WW2 Allied aircraft attacked Japanese positions at Monywa, Burma while the Indian 20th Division assaulted the port city on the Chindwin River. Meanwhile, Indian 4th Corps began its secret march southward for Meiktila, Burma. 
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19 Jan 1945 WW2 Richard Bienert was named the prime minister of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. 
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19 Jan 1945 WW2 Adolf Hitler ordered that any attacks or retreats by divisions or larger units must be approved by him beforehand. 
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19 Jan 1945 WW2 Alexander Löhr was mentioned in the Wehrmachtbericht daily radio report. 
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19 Jan 1945 WW2 Maximilian von Weichs was mentioned in the Wehrmachtbericht daily radio report. 
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19 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Parche attacked two Japanese ships east of Taiwan, damaging a tanker and a freighter with 1 torpedo each; 10 torpedoes were expended during this attack. 
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19 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Spot sank a Japanese cargo ship and a tanker in the Yellow Sea, hitting them with 3 of 13 torpdoes fired. 
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19 Jan 1945 WW2 Red Army captured Kraków and Lódz, Poland and entered Ostpreußen (East Prussia), Germany from the south. 
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19 Jan 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit Town Quay, Barking, London, England, United Kingdom at 2300 hours. 
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20 Jan 1945 WW2 Martin Bormann ordered Arthur Greiser to flee Reichsgau Wartheland. 
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20 Jan 1945 WW2 The French First Army under General de Lattre attacked the Colmar Pocket in Alsace, France. 
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20 Jan 1945 WW2 Colonel General Ferdinand Schörner replaced Colonel General Josef Harpe as the head of German Army Group A in eastern Germany. 
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20 Jan 1945 WW2 Nikolaus von Falkenhorst was awarded the German Cross in Silver. 
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20 Jan 1945 WW2 Destroyer Yuzuki was struck from the Japanese navy list. 
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20 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Finback departed for her twelfth and final war patrol in the East China Sea. 
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20 Jan 1945 WW2 Chinese troops captured Wanting, Yunnan Province, China. 
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20 Jan 1945 WW2 Captain Chojuro Takahashi was named the commanding officer of light carrier Ryuho. 
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20 Jan 1945 WW2 Light carrier Hosho conducted a torpedo attack training with Air Group 453 and submarine HA-106. 
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20 Jan 1945 WW2 Allied aircraft attacked Japanese positions at Monywa, Burma while the Indian 20th Division assaulted the port city on the Chindwin River. Meanwhile, Japanese forces in Burma began a coordinated counteroffensive against the latest Anglo-Indian advances. 
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20 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Barb pursued a Japanese convoy in the Taiwan Strait, but the convoy was able to enter the southern entrance of the Haitan Strait before the submarine could attack. Commander Eugene Fluckey suspected that the Japanese had dredged the previously shallow northern end of the strait for warships to move through, and asked Sino-American Special Technical Cooperative Organization (SACO), which had a wide coastwatcher network in China, for information. 
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20 Jan 1945 WW2 An armistice between the Hungarian Provisional National Government and the Soviet Union insisted that Hungary should declare war on Germany and pay $300,000,000 in reparations. 
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20 Jan 1945 WW2 Warrant Flying Officer Suzuki and Warrant Flying Officer Sasaki conducted a navigation training flight aboard a E16A Zuiun seaplane at Kure, Japan; the aircraft crashed behind a hangar during landing, killing both, making them the first casualties of Japanese Navy 631 Naval Air Group. Sasaki was supposed to be married that evening. 
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20 Jan 1945 WW2 Nachi was struck from the Japanese Navy list. 
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20 Jan 1945 WW2 US troops captured Diekirch, Luxembourg. Upon capture, the Americans found 12 to 15 dead civilians, executed by retreating German troops of 208th Volksgrenadier Regiment. After the Americans secured the city, the locals began rounding up collaborators, most of whom were jailed for future trials while a small number were executed by vigilantes. 
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20 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Ticonderoga and other ships of Task Group 38 exited South China Sea via Balintang Channel. 
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20 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Spot sank a Japanese cargo ship in the Yellow Sea with her deck gun after missing her with 5 torpedoes. 
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20 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Miami transited the Balintang Channel between Taiwan and the Philippine Islands. 
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20 Jan 1945 WW2 Three German V-2 rocket hit London, England, United Kingdom. The first hit Potters Bar at 1100 hours, killing 21. The second hit Calton Road in East Barnet at 1315 hours, killing 12. The third hit Tottenham at 2000 hours, killing 23. 
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21 Jan 1945 WW2 In Burma, the Chinese Expeditionary Force supported by USAAF aircraft based in China captured Wangting. 
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21 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Sennet attacked a Japanese tanker off the Bonin Islands; all 8 torpedoes missed. 
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21 Jan 1945 WW2 Indian 26th Division landed on Ramree Island, Burma. 
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21 Jan 1945 WW2 Red Army units captured Tannenburg, East Prussia, Germany (now Stebark, Poland), but only after the Germans destroyed the monument memorializing the 1914 German victory over the Soviets. 
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21 Jan 1945 WW2 Submarine I-369 departed Yokosuka, Japan with supplies for Minamitorishima (Marcus Island). 
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21 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Boarfish attacked a Japanese convoy three times in the South China Sea in a period of three hours before dawn; all 16 torpedoes missed. 
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21 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Miami shot down a Japanese A6M fighter. 
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21 Jan 1945 WW2 Raoul Wallenberg was transferred to the Lubyanka prison in Moscow, Russia. 
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21 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Ticonderoga launched Air Group 80 aircraft for strikes on Taiwan; 1 man and 3 aircraft were lost. Later that day, Ticonderoga was struck by two special attack aircraft at about 120 miles southeast of Taiwan, killing 143 men and injuring 202 others. Commander Harmon Vedder Briner took temporary command of the carrier as Captain Dixie Kiefer was injured in the attacks. 
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21 Jan 1945 WW2 Allied convoy RA-63 arrived at Loch Ewe, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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22 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Caiman arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her first war patrol. 
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22 Jan 1945 WW2 Four squadrons of Spitfire fighters of the RAF, carrying bombs, knocked out a German liquid oxygen rocket fuel factory at Alblasserdam in the Netherlands. 
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22 Jan 1945 WW2 The remnants of the German 4th Panzer Army successfully fled to the Oder River in eastern Germany. 
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22 Jan 1945 WW2 By this date, all Japanese troops in Yunnan Province, China were pushed to the Burma side of the Sino-Burmese border. 
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22 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Sennet attacked a Japanese patrol boat off the Bonin Islands; the single torpedo missed. 
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22 Jan 1945 WW2 Indian 20th Division captured Monywa, Burma on the Chindwin River and reached the Irrawady River at Myinmu. 
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22 Jan 1945 WW2 Anglo-Indian troops began assaulting Kangaw, Burma. Meanwhile, off the coast, additional troops were disembarked on Ramree Island and Royal Marine commandos landed at Daingbon Chaung on the coast. 
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22 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Barb, acting on information shared by Sino-American Special Technical Cooperative Organization (SACO), continued to pursue a Japanese convoy up the coast of China. When it entered into a bay near Nanguan Island ("Namkwan harbor") on the southern border of Zhejiang Province, Commander Eugene Fluckey checked in with Sino-American Special Technical Cooperative Organization (SACO), which reported no known minefield. 
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22 Jan 1945 WW2 Soviet forces captured Allenstein and Insterburg in Ostpreußen (East Prussia), Germany. 
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23 Jan 1945 WW2 Soviet units reached the Oder River in the Silesia region of occupied Poland. 
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23 Jan 1945 WW2 In fighting at Brachterbeek, the Netherlands, Lance Corporal Henry Harden, a medic attached to the Commandos, sprinted 100 yards under fire over open ground to attend three wounded men. He carried one back to safety and, despite being hit, insisted on returning for the others. As he hoisted the second wounded man onto his back, he was shot and killed. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. 
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23 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Sennet attacked Japanese patrol boats off the Bonin Islands, sinking one and damaging another with 1 of 6 torpedoes fired. 
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23 Jan 1945 WW2 Anglo-Indian troops captured Myinmu, Burma. The last Japanese survivors drowned themselves in the Irrawaddy River to avoid capture. 
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23 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands for repairs. 
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23 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Barb attacked a Japanese convoy near Nanguan Island ("Namkwan harbor"), Zhejiang Province, China at 0405 hours, firing eight torpedoes and recording eight hits. At 1130 hours, Commander Eugene Fluckey sent Sino-American Special Technical Cooperative Organization (SACO) chief Commander Milton Miles a radio message, thanking him for the intelligence about the attack location. In Jun 1991, Fluckey was able to visit the fishing village of Huang Qi where several eyewitnesses of the attack still lived; the Chinese recalled seeing 4 Japanese ships sinking and 3 heavily damaged. 
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23 Jan 1945 WW2 Helmuth von Moltke was executed at the Plötzensee Prison in Berlin, Germany. 
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23 Jan 1945 WW2 Kriegsmarine units began the evacuation of German civilians from Ostpreußen (East Prussia) and Danzig (Operation Hannibal). Meanwhile, Soviet troops reached Elbing, Danzig-Westpreußen, Germany (now Elblag) on the Baltic coast. 
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23 Jan 1945 WW2 A UKR official attached to Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front reported that between 1 Jan 1945 and 20 Jan 1945, 2 German counterintelligence personnel, 39 German intelligence personnel, and 7 Hungarian intelligence personnel were arrested in Hungary. 
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24 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Blackfin sank Japanese destroyer Shigure in the Gulf of Siam about 160 miles from Kota Bharu, Malaya. 
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24 Jan 1945 WW2 German forces began withdrawing from Slovakia. 
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24 Jan 1945 WW2 Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front captured Gleiwitz, Germany (now Gliwice, Poland). 
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24 Jan 1945 WW2 British Fleet Air Arm Seafire fighters commenced operations in the Far East with a full-scale attack on oil targets in Sumatra, Dutch East Indies. 
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24 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Ticonderoga arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands; Captain Kiefer, the executive officer, and others wounded during the special attack three days prior were transferred to hospital ship Samaritan. 
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24 Jan 1945 WW2 Roza Shanina made her final entry in her combat diary. 
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24 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Chub arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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24 Jan 1945 WW2 Shigure was sunk by USS Blackfin in the Gulf of Siam off Khota Bharu, Malaya. 
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24 Jan 1945 WW2 The BI-7 rocket-powered prototype aircraft took its first flight at Khimki near Moscow, Russia (the eleventh flight of the design); a problem with the landing gear was reported during this flight. 
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25 Jan 1945 WW2 Anglo-Indian and Japanese troops clashed at Kabwet, Burma. 
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25 Jan 1945 WW2 Denise Bloch was executed at Ravensbrück Concentration Camp, Germany. 
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25 Jan 1945 WW2 Germany announced the biggest evacuation in military history when the first of what would grow to be up to two million troops were withdrawn by ship through the Baltic from Preußen (Prussia) and Pommern (Pomerania). The evacuation continued until the end of the European War. 
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25 Jan 1945 WW2 Heinz Guderian asked Joachim von Ribbentrop to negotiate peace with the Western Allies. Ribbentrop reported this to Adolf Hitler. 
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25 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Pollack departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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25 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Hackleback arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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25 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Sterlet departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her third war patrol. 
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25 Jan 1945 WW2 Douglas MacArthur moved his advance headquarters forward to the Hacienda Luisita plantation, Tarlac, Philippine Islands. 
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25 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Luce departed San Pedro Bay, Philippine Islands. 
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25 Jan 1945 WW2 Posen, Germany (now Poznan, Poland) was declared a Fortress City after it was surrounded and left to wither by Soviet forces. 
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25 Jan 1945 WW2 Raoul Wallenberg was interrogated at the OKR of Soviet 18th Rifle Corps in Russia. 
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26 Jan 1945 WW2 Despite being wounded, US Army 2nd Lieutenant Audie Murphy single-handedly repelled tank and infantry attacks on his unit's position at Colmar, France. The action earned Murphy America's highest award for bravery, the Medal of Honor. Beginning as a private and earning a battlefield commission, he finished the war as his country's most decorated soldier with 33 medals and was personally credited with killing 240 enemies. After the war, the baby-faced hero made a fortune as a B-movie film star before being killed in a plane crash in 1971, aged 46. After President John F Kennedy, his grave was the most visited plot in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, United States. 
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26 Jan 1945 WW2 German 17th Army received permission to withdraw from Katowice, Poland. 
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26 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Sennet attacked a Japanese patrol boat off the Bonin Islands; the single torpedo missed. 
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26 Jan 1945 WW2 Anglo-Indian troops landed on Cheduba Island, Burma; the landing was unopposed. 
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26 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Astoria arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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26 Jan 1945 WW2 Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler was put in command of Armeegruppe Weichsel, or Army Group Vistula, as Soviet troops broke through the Gulf of Danzig and isolated three German armies in East Prussia, Germany. Soviet forces were now within 95 miles of Berlin, Germany. Meanwhile, thousands of German refugees were killed while waiting for ships to evacuate them from East Prussia when a nearby ammunition depot was detonated by a Soviet aerial attack. 
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26 Jan 1945 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Yokosuka, Japan for her 23th voyage with the Japanese Navy. 
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26 Jan 1945 WW2 An air burst from a German V-2 rocket over Cotswold Gardens, London, England, United Kingdom caused widespread damage. Another rocket hit Clapham, London at 1045 hours, seriously injuring 25 and lightly injuring 42. Another rocket hit Croydon, London in an open space without causing any injuries. 
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26 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Whale arrived at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States for a scheduled overhaul. 
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26 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Capitaine was commissioned into service with Lieutenant Commander E. S. Friedrick in command. 
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27 Jan 1945 WW2 In the wake of the German evacuation, Soviet forces captured Memel; the Soviets now occupied all of Lithuania. 
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27 Jan 1945 WW2 Despite of the needed coal and industry there, the Germans began evacuating the Upper Silesia region as Soviet troops approached; this included the city of Katowice, Poland. 
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27 Jan 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit the Woolwich Arsenal in Britain at 2230 hours, killing 6 and injuring 17, causing some damage to machines. 
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27 Jan 1945 WW2 Four groups of the US 20th Air Force, operating B-29 bombers, completed its move to India. On the same day, American B-29 bombers from India struck Saigon, French Indochina and Bangkok, Thailand with little result. 
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27 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Kete completed lifeguard duty off Ryukyu Islands, Japan. 
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27 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Pintado departed Brisbane, Australia for her fourth war patrol. 
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27 Jan 1945 WW2 In a report written by Heinz Guderian on this date, he referred to the Soviet forces as a "tidal wave". 
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27 Jan 1945 WW2 After sundown, HMS Diadem and HMS Mauritius engaged in combat with German destroyers in the North Sea; German destroyer Z31 was heavily damaged during the engagement, but would survive to return to port. 
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27 Jan 1945 WW2 Allied X-Force under Daniel Sultan, moving north from Burma, made contact with Allied Y-Force under Sun Liren, moving south from China, in the Chinese-Burmese border region. 
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27 Jan 1945 WW2 Chinese troops from southern China and Chinese troops from India linked up at Muse in northern Burma, signifying the successful end of the Salween Offensive. 
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27 Jan 1945 WW2 Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller was awarded Swords to his Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. 
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27 Jan 1945 WW2 With the Red Army just 20 kilometers away the Germans evacuated the 11,000 prisoners of war held at Stalag Luft III to commence a march in sub-zero temperatures to Spremburg, Germany. 
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27 Jan 1945 WW2 Roza Shanina was seriously wounded while shielding a wounded artillery officer. 
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27 Jan 1945 WW2 62 American B-29 bombers based in the Mariana Islands struck Tokyo, Japan. Japanese fighters shot down 5 bombers, while 4 others received damage and had to ditch or crash land. B-29 gunner claimed 60 fighters shot down. 
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27 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Bergall sank a Japanese patrol vessel in the South China Sea, hitting her with 1 of 1 torpedo. 
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27 Jan 1945 WW2 Reconnaissance troops of the Soviet 100th Infantry Division discovered the prisoners' infirmary at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp at about 0900 hours. The remainder of the division arrived 30 minutes later. Soviet troops entered the main camp in the afternoon where they fought off the remaining German resistance at the cost of 231 lives. By this time, only 7,000 prisoners remained to be liberated in the entire Auschwitz system; the bulk of had been marched away previously. 
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27 Jan 1945 WW2 The Soviets sentenced German SD officer Alois Galfe to death for his role in the recruitment and training of Russian nationals to act as German spies. 
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28 Jan 1945 WW2 Air Group 80 was transferred aboard USS Hancock. 
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28 Jan 1945 WW2 Cruiser Köln departed for Wilhelmshaven, Germany for repairs. 
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28 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Spadefish attacked a Japanese convoy in the southern Yellow Sea and sank Sanuki Maru. 
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28 Jan 1945 WW2 Soviet troops captured Katowice, Poland. 
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28 Jan 1945 WW2 Submarine I-369 arrived at Minamitorishima (Marcus Island), Japan. 
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28 Jan 1945 WW2 Friedrich Christiansen stepped down as the commanding officer of the German 25th Army. 
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28 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Pompon attacked a Japanese convoy off Syo-kokuzan To in the Yellow Sea as a member of a wolfpack and observed the sinking of two Japanese ships by fellow submarine USS Spadefish. 
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28 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Sennet departed the Bonin Islands area. 
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28 Jan 1945 WW2 USAAF pilot Major Fredrick Austin Borsodi was killed when the tail of his YP-80A jet fighter disintegrated, causing the aircraft to crash. It was due to the failure of exhaust pipes in the tail section of the aircraft. 
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28 Jan 1945 WW2 Anglo-Indian troops captured Pauk, Burma. 
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28 Jan 1945 WW2 Captain Giles Elza Short was named the commanding officer of USS Ticonderoga. She then departed Ulithi, Caroline Islands for Puget Sound Navy Yard, Washington, United States via Pearl Harbor. 
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28 Jan 1945 WW2 The Ardennes bulge was finally pushed back to its original lines, thus ending the Battle of the Bulge. 
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28 Jan 1945 WW2 Roza Shanina passed away in near the Richau estate three kilometers (1.9 miles) southeast of the village of Ilmsdorf, Ostpreußen (East Prussia), Germany (now Novobobruysk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia) from wound received in combat on the previous day. 
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28 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Brill departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. 
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29 Jan 1945 WW2 Allied troops captured Oberhausen, Germany in the Rhine river basin. 
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29 Jan 1945 WW2 Adolf Hitler met with Vidkun Quisling for the last time. 
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29 Jan 1945 WW2 Aircraft from HMS Indomitable struck Palembang, Sumatra, Dutch East Indies. 
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29 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Charr anchored one mile off the Indochina coast for four hours during daylight while a team was dispatched ashore to rescue a downed airman. 
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29 Jan 1945 WW2 American troops landed near San Antonio, Luzon, Philippine Islands unopposed. 
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29 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Sea Robin arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her first war patrol. 
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29 Jan 1945 WW2 HMS Activity departed Britain with convoy KM 39. 
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29 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Pompon's conning tower hatch failed during the morning trim dive, causing flooding in the tower, control room, and pump room. She ended her war patrol early. 
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29 Jan 1945 WW2 The last WW2 P-40 fighter victory against a Japanese aircraft was recorded. 
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29 Jan 1945 WW2 An Allied convoy originally from Ledo, India crossed the Burmese-Chinese border. It was the first convoy across this supply route since Apr 1942. 
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29 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Permit departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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29 Jan 1945 WW2 19 American B-24 bombers based in Guam, Mariana Islands attacked Iwo Jima, Japan. 
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29 Jan 1945 WW2 Winston Churchill arrived at RAF Luqa on Malta. 
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29 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Bergall attacked a Japanese patrol vessel in the South China Sea; the torpedo missed. 
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29 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Marcus Island provided air support during the unopposed US landing at Zambales Province on the island of Luzon in the Philippine Islands. 
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30 Jan 1945 WW2 Douglas MacArthur ordered Major General Verne Mudge of the US 1st Cavalry Division to conduct a rapid advance on Manila, Philippine Islands. 
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30 Jan 1945 WW2 About 500 Allied prisoners of war were rescued at Cabanatuan, Luzon, Philippine Islands by a raid conducted by the US Army. 
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30 Jan 1945 WW2 German passenger liner Wilhelm Gustloff was attacked and sunk by a Soviet submarine off Gotenhafen, East Prussia, Germany (now Gdynia, Poland), killing 8,000 of the 9,000 passengers onboard. 
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30 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Kete arrived at Guam, Mariana Islands, ending her first war patrol. 
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30 Jan 1945 WW2 Otto Skorzeny was ordered to join the Army Group Vistula on the Eastern Front. 
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30 Jan 1945 WW2 Albert Speer noted to Adolf Hitler that, having lost the Silesia region to Soviet forces, Germany had now lost an important source of coal and steel, the war was now lost. 
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30 Jan 1945 WW2 While transporting civilians from Ostpreußen (East Prussia), Germany, German Navy passenger ship Wilhelm Gustloff was sunk by Soviet submarine S-13, taking somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 lives, possibly making it the greatest loss of life in a maritime disaster in history. 
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30 Jan 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: The first WAVE officer reported for duty this date. 
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30 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Bergall sank a Japanese transport in the South China Sea, hitting her with 1 of 1 torpedo. 
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30 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Luce departed for Mindoro, Philippine Islands. 
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30 Jan 1945 WW2 Russian monarchist Vasili Shulgin, who had been arrested in Yugoslavia in Dec 1944, was brought to Lubyanka Prison in Moscow, Russia. 
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30 Jan 1945 WW2 The British Government called on every firm and factory to cut the use of gas and electricity by 10 percent without jeopardising essential war work. 
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30 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Spot arrived at Midway Atoll, ending her first war patrol. 
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31 Jan 1945 WW2 Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front established two bridgeheads over the Oder River near Küstrin, Germany (now Kostrzyn, Poland). 
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31 Jan 1945 WW2 The Duke of Gloucester became the Governor-General of Australia, an appointment designed to ensure that Australia did not become a dependency of the United States. 
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31 Jan 1945 WW2 American submarine chaser PC-1129 intercepted Japanese Shinyo special attack boats in the Philippine Islands, but she was in turn rammed by one of the boats and was sunk. 
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31 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island completed her repairs at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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31 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Sennet arrived at Saipan, Mariana Islands, ending her first war patrol. 
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31 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Boarfish attacked a Japanese convoy three times in the South China Sea, sinking cargo ship Enki Maru (1 of 2 torpedoes hit) and damaging cargo ship Taietsu Maru (1 of 2 torpedoes hit; she would later be finished off by US aircraft). 
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31 Jan 1945 WW2 In the Philippine Islands, elements of the 11th US Airborne Division came ashore at Nasugbu Bay, some 50 miles south of Manila and opposite Bataan at the mouth of Manila Bay. 
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31 Jan 1945 WW2 The US Navy expanded the piston-jet mix-powered fighter contract with Ryan Aeronautical to 700 examples. 
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01 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Sea Cat departed Guam, Mariana Islands for her second war patrol. 
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01 Feb 1945 WW2 US First Army captured Remscheid in Germany, east of Düsseldorf. On the same day, US Seventh Army reached the Moder River and the Siegfried Line/Westwall. 
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01 Feb 1945 WW2 Küstrin, Germany, surrounded by Soviet troops, was declared a Fortress City. 
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01 Feb 1945 WW2 British fighter ace Robert Roland Stanford Tuck, shot down and captured on 28 Jan 1942, escaped from his prisoner of war camp, subsequently making his way through the Russian lines to the British Embassy in Moscow and then home. 
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01 Feb 1945 WW2 Warspite was decommissioned from service. 
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01 Feb 1945 WW2 Light carrier Hosho arrived at Tokuyama, Japan, refueled, and departed to conduct a training exercise as a target vessel. 
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01 Feb 1945 WW2 Commander Jacob Wilson Waterhouse relieved Commander Hinton A. Owens as the commanding officer of USS Luce. 
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01 Feb 1945 WW2 Bulgarian People's Court found Dobri Bozhilov guilty of being a traitor to Bulgaria and sentenced him to death. The execution was carried out later on the same day. 
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01 Feb 1945 WW2 Bulgarian People's Court found Bogdan Filov guilty of being a traitor to Bulgaria and sentenced him to death. The execution was carried out later on the same day. 
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01 Feb 1945 WW2 Captain Thomas Howell Binford was named the commanding officer of USS Miami while the ship was at sea south of Tokyo, Japan. 
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01 Feb 1945 WW2 The Taiwan District Army was formed within the Japanese Tenth Area Army with the former commanding officer General Rikichi Ando of the former Taiwan Army at its head. 
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01 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Segundo departed Guam, Mariana Islands for her third war patrol. 
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02 Feb 1945 WW2 Lieutenant Jack L. Knight of Mars Task Force led an attack up a 400-foot only to find at the summit that they had entered a horseshoe shaped Japanese strongpoint. Wounded several times and with carbine ammunition exhausted, Knight organized another attack and was finally killed whilst tackling a sixth bunker. For his gallantry, Knight would ultimately be awarded a posthumous Medal of Honor, the only such infantry award made in the China-Burma-India theatre of war. 
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02 Feb 1945 WW2 French troops captured Colmar, France. 
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02 Feb 1945 WW2 Soviet 1st Byelorussian Front reached the Oder River, near Frankfurt, Germany. On the same day, the Soviet Stavka in Moscow, Russia declared the Vistula-Oder Offensive complete. 
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02 Feb 1945 WW2 Churchill and Roosevelt completed a three-day meeting at Malta; Churchill noted that Roosevelt's health was not at its best. 
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02 Feb 1945 WW2 Nazi German Gauleiter Karl Hanke announced the formation of new Volkssturm militia units at Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland). On the same day, Major General Hans von Ahlfen was named the commanding officer of the Fortress City of Breslau. 
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02 Feb 1945 WW2 Anglo-Indian troops captured Kangaw, Burma. 
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02 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Luce began escorting transport ships between Subic Bay and San Pedro Bay in the Philippine Islands. 
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02 Feb 1945 WW2 Isai Babich authorized the arrest of Soviet Captain Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn for his private criticism of Joseph Stalin. 
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02 Feb 1945 WW2 Lieutenant General Mikhail Krivenko was named the head of the Soviet Main Directorate for Prisoners of War and Interned Persons (GUPVI), replacing Ivan Petrov. 
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02 Feb 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit Deptford, London, England, United Kingdom, killing 24. 
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02 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Franklin departed Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, United States. 
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03 Feb 1945 WW2 US forces engaged Japanese troops in Manila, Philippine Islands. 
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03 Feb 1945 WW2 Soviet troops captured Landsberg, Germany. 
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03 Feb 1945 WW2 The Soviet State Defense Committee (GKO) ordered all German males between the ages of 17 and 50 in Soviet-occupied territories to be deported to the Soviet Union as forced laborers. 
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03 Feb 1945 WW2 Frank Messervy ordered his Indian 4th Corps to attack Chauk and Pagan, Burma. 
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03 Feb 1945 WW2 Judge Roland Friesler, the fanatical Nazi who condemned to death the July plotters against Hitler, was killed during an air raid on Berlin, Germany. 
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03 Feb 1945 WW2 BBC war correspondent Guy Byam was killed when the Flying Fortress bomber in which he was reporting on a daylight raid on Berlin, Germany was shot down. 
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03 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Tunny departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her eighth war patrol. 
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03 Feb 1945 WW2 Allied convoy JW-64 departed Clyde, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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04 Feb 1945 WW2 Belgium was reportedly free of German forces as of this date. 
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04 Feb 1945 WW2 The first of seven Ruhr dams in Germany was captured by the US First Army. 
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04 Feb 1945 WW2 15 Lancaster bombers and 12 Halifax bombers conducted minelaying operations off Helgoland and at the mouth of River Elbe, Germany. 
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04 Feb 1945 WW2 The US submarine Barbel was sunk by Japanese aircraft southwest of Palawan, Philippine Islands. 
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04 Feb 1945 WW2 Second Lieutenant Danilo of 1st Brazilian Fighter Group was shot down in flames whilst attacking trains to the Southwest of Treviso, Italy. Baling out Lieutenant Danilo walked for twenty-four days, across enemy territory before joining the partisans and finally getting through the front lines to rejoin his comrades. 
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04 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Springer departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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04 Feb 1945 WW2 Seventy American B-29 Superfortress bombers dropped 160 tons of incendiaries on the Japanese city of Kobe. Most of its building were made of wood and they blazed instantly. 
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04 Feb 1945 WW2 The Yalta Conference commenced in Russia. 
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04 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Franklin arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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05 Feb 1945 WW2 Vice Admiral Shigeru Fukudome was named the commanding officer of the Japanese 10th Area Fleet while still holding command of the 1st Southern Expeditionary Fleet; Rear Admiral Bunji Asakura was named his chief of staff. On the same day, the Japanese Navy 13th Air Fleet was transferred from the Southwest Area Fleet to become part of the 10th Area Fleet; it brought in the strength of two air flotillas and seven air groups. 
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05 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Hawkbill departed Fremantle, Australia for her third war patrol. 
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05 Feb 1945 WW2 Maximilian von Weichs was awarded Oak Leaves to his Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. 
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05 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Marcus Island arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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05 Feb 1945 WW2 The first Allied supply convoy from Ledo, India to successfully cross the Burmese-Chinese border on 29 Jan 1945 arrived in Kunming Airfield, Yunnan Province, China. 
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05 Feb 1945 WW2 The RSHA transported approximately 1,200 Jews from Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in occupied Czechoslovakia to Switzerland. 
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05 Feb 1945 WW2 Submarine I-369 arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. 
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05 Feb 1945 WW2 Kobi Naval Air Group was transferred to Takao Guard District in southern Taiwan. 
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06 Feb 1945 WW2 Soviet 1st Byelorussian Front expanded its holdings along the east bank of the Oder River in Germany. 
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06 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Mingo departed Fremantle, Australia for her seventh war patrol. 
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06 Feb 1945 WW2 S-37 was decommissioned from service. 
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06 Feb 1945 WW2 Rear Admiral Tsuyoshi Matsumoto was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Navy 12th Air Fleet. 
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06 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Marcus Island was relieved as Rear Admiral W. D. Sample's flagship while at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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06 Feb 1945 WW2 Raoul Wallenberg was transferred back to the Lubyanka prison in Moscow, Russia. 
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07 Feb 1945 WW2 German demolition of Ruhr floodgates flooded the area west of Köln, Germany, inhibiting Allied action. 
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07 Feb 1945 WW2 Kriegsmarine cruisers assisted with naval gunfire to halt Soviet attacks near Königsberg, Germany. 
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07 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Carbonero was commissioned into service, Commander Charlton Murphy, Jr. in command. 
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07 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Parche sank Japanese transport Okinoyama Maru east of Taiwan, hitting her with 1 of 4 torpedoes fired. 
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07 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Bergall fired eight torpedoes at a Japanese convoy east of Cam Rahn Bay, French Indochina, damaing two oilers with three hits. 
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07 Feb 1945 WW2 Captain William Sinton was named the commanding officer of USS Ticonderoga. 
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07 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Sennet departed Saipan, Mariana Islands for her second war patrol. 
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07 Feb 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit the railway sidings near Barking Marches, London, England, United Kingdom. 
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07 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Franklin departed San Francisco, California, United States. 
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08 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Tang was struck from the Naval Register. 
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08 Feb 1945 WW2 British and Canadian forces launched a major assault into the Reichswald near Nijmegen, the Netherlands. 
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08 Feb 1945 WW2 Marshal Ivan Konev's six armies surged out of their Oder River bridgehead in eastern Germany. 
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08 Feb 1945 WW2 Generalmajor Karl Marthinson, head of the Norwegian State Police, was assassinated in Oslo, Norway by the Milorg resistance group. The Germans retaliated by executing 29 civilians. 
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08 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Hoe departed Fremantle, Australia for her eighth war patrol in the South China Sea. 
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08 Feb 1945 WW2 The UKR chief of Soviet 1st Byelorussian Front Aleksandr Vadis reported that of the 184 German agents captured by SMERSH in Jan 1945, 124 of them had orders to sabotage Soviet war efforts. 
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08 Feb 1945 WW2 Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front commenced the Lower Silesian Offensive at 0600 hours after a 55-minute artillery bombardment; by the end of the day, Soviet troops had penetrated German lines by as much as 60 kilometers at certain locations. 
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08 Feb 1945 WW2 The 28th East African Brigade attacked Seikpyu, Burma as a feint. 
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08 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Marcus Island was made the flagship of Rear Admiral Felix Stump's Carrier Division 24 whiel at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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08 Feb 1945 WW2 Joseph Stalin held a feast for the Allied leaders at Yalta, Russia. 
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08 Feb 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit the Super Cinema in Ilford, London, England, United Kingdom at 1245 hours; 13 were killed and 64 were seriously injured, and 86 were lightly injured. Another rocket hit Tavistock Place in St Pancras, London at 1608 hours; 31 were killed and 54 were seriously injured; the Central London Opthalmic Hospital and the Medical School of the Royal Free Hospital were damaged. 
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09 Feb 1945 WW2 British and Canadian troops forced their way through a main Siegfried Line/Westwall defensive zone. Meanwhile, half of German 19.Armee was evacuated back into Germany before the final Rhine River bridge in the Colmar Pocket in France was blown. 
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09 Feb 1945 WW2 Elbing and Posen in Germany (now Elblag and Poznan in Poland) were surrounded by the Soviet forces. 
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09 Feb 1945 WW2 In a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat, British HMS Venturer sank German U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway. 
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09 Feb 1945 WW2 Between this date and 12 Feb 1945, US submarine Batfish sank three Japanese destroyers. 
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09 Feb 1945 WW2 Soviet submarine S-13 sank the German ship Steuben, killing 3,000 to 4,000, most of which were military personnel being evacuated from East Prussia, Germany. 
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09 Feb 1945 WW2 German engineers blew up the dam over the Ruhr, thereby presenting the US Ninth Army with an unbridgeable strip of surging water. This led to the attack from the south being postponed and the waters would not subside sufficiently for General William Simpson's leading troops to resume their advance until 23 Feb 1945. 
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09 Feb 1945 WW2 Soviet Captain Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was arrested for his private criticism of Joseph Stalin; he would eventually be sentenced to 8 years imprisonment at labor camps for this crime. 
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10 Feb 1945 WW2 US First Army captured the last of seven Ruhr dams in Germany, but in general Canadian and American troops continued to make very slow progress as key areas had been flooded by retreating Germans. 
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10 Feb 1945 WW2 In Poland, Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front reached the Niesse River, taking Liegnitz and encircling Glogau in the process. 
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10 Feb 1945 WW2 Soviet submarine S-13 torpedoed and sank German passenger liner General Steuben, killing 3,500 people. Most of the passengers on board were wounded military personnel and civilians being evacuated from East Prussia, Germany. 
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10 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Mingo survived a typhoon, which caused some damage and caused 2 men to be lost. 
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10 Feb 1945 WW2 The Nakajima aircraft plant at Ota, Gunma Prefecture, Japan was seriously damaged by American bombing. 
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10 Feb 1945 WW2 The Japanese Navy 5th Air Fleet was formed with the strength of eight air groups with Vice Admiral Matome Ugaki in command and Captain Toshiyuki Yokoi as his chief of staff; it was attached to the Combined Fleet. 
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10 Feb 1945 WW2 Starting from this date, Soviet counterintelligence chiefs of each front were required to provide daily reports on the progress of the deportation of German males (for use as forced laborers within the Soviet Union). 
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10 Feb 1945 WW2 Indian 114th Brigade captured Pakkoku 20 kilometers southwest of the Chindwin-Irrawaddy confluence in Burma. 
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10 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Hancock departed Ulithi, Caroline Islands as part of Task Group 58.2. 
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10 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island departed Ulithi, Caroline Islands with Task Group 52.2. 
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10 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Astoria departed Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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10 Feb 1945 WW2 Jean de Lattre de Tassigny was awarded the Grand Croix of the Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur. 
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10 Feb 1945 WW2 Fierce German counter attacks near Neustettin, Germany (now Szczecinek, Poland) halted the advance of the Soviet 2nd Byelorussian Front. Nevertheless, some of the troops of the Soviet 2nd Byelorussian Front were withdrawn from the East Prussian Offensive and diverted to the fighting in Pomerania, Germany. 
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10 Feb 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Catapult and Arresting Gear facilities turned over to station as usably complete. 
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10 Feb 1945 WW2 A breakout attempt by the remaining 16,000 Axis troops in Budapest, Hungary failed, with most of the men being captured or killed. 
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10 Feb 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit Silvertown in North Woolwich, London, England, United Kingdom just across the River Thames from the Harland and Wolff shipyard offices; many workers at Harland and Wolff were injured. Another rocket scored a direct hit on the Bascule Bridge in Woolwich at 1115 hours. 
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11 Feb 1945 WW2 Aircraft of Air Group 80 flew training missions while its mothership USS Hancock sailed toward Japan. 
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11 Feb 1945 WW2 The Yalta Agreement was signed by Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, with Stalin pledging to declare war on Japan three months after the German surrender. 
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11 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island participated in an exercise in the Mariana Islands. 
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11 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Puffer departed Guam, Mariana Islands for her seventh war patrol. 
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11 Feb 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Catapult and Arresting Gear facilities first used (VF-100 with FM-2 and F6F-5 aircraft). 
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11 Feb 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit the Glyco Works in West Ham, London, England, United Kingdom. 
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11 Feb 1945 WW2 On or around this date, German submarine U-869 was sunk off New Jersey, United States. 
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11 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Pompon arrived at Midway Atoll, ending her seventh war patrol. 
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12 Feb 1945 WW2 Aircraft of Air Group 80 flew training missions while its mothership USS Hancock sailed toward Japan. 
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12 Feb 1945 WW2 British and Canadian forces captured Kleve, Germany. 
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12 Feb 1945 WW2 The Yalta Agreement was publicly announced nearly simultaneously in Moscow, Russia and London, England, United Kingdom regarding the handling of Germany after the war. 
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12 Feb 1945 WW2 Peru declared war on Germany and Japan. 
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12 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Croaker arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her third war patrol. 
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12 Feb 1945 WW2 Wilhelm Keitel ordered all deserters to be shot. 
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12 Feb 1945 WW2 Indian 20th Division crossed the Irrawady River at Myinmu, Burma. 
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12 Feb 1945 WW2 Richard Kauder, a German military intelligence officer stationed in Budapest, Hungary, was arrested for suspicion of planning an escape to Switzerland as he was caught leaving the city with cash, jewelry, and his stamp collection. 
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12 Feb 1945 WW2 Submarine I-369 departed Yokosuka, Japan with supplies for Chichi Jima, Japan. 
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13 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island was designated the flagship of Task Unit 52.2.1. 
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13 Feb 1945 WW2 Heinz Guderian and Adolf Hitler argued on the Eastern Front situation; Guderian would later make note of Hitler's inability to control his rage. 
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13 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Sennet shared the credit of sinking two Japanese patrol boats with USS Haddock and USS Lagarto south of Japan. 
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13 Feb 1945 WW2 Indian 7th Division crossed the Irrawady River at Nyaungu, Burma. 
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13 Feb 1945 WW2 Allied firebombing raid started massive firestorms in Dresden, Germany. 
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13 Feb 1945 WW2 German intelligence detected a Soviet build-up that suggested a move against the eastern Pommern and Danzig-Westpreußen region of Germany (occupied Poland and Danzig). 
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13 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Chub departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. 
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13 Feb 1945 WW2 Soviet troops captured Budapest, Hungary. 
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13 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Bergall damaged a large Japanese warship in the South China Sea, hitting her with 1 of 6 torpedoes. 
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14 Feb 1945 WW2 Cruiser Köln arrived at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. 
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14 Feb 1945 WW2 British and Canadian troops reached the Rhine River northwest of Duisberg, Germany. 
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14 Feb 1945 WW2 German Panzerkorps "Großdeutschland" and German 24th Panzer Corps counterattacked near Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), seeing some success against Soviet 4th Tank Army, but the Germans were unable halt the larger Soviet attempt to surround the city. Nearby, Soviet troops captured Groß-Rosen Concentration Camp in Groß-Rosen, Germany (now Rogoznica, Poland). 
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14 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Mingo arrived at Fremantle, Australia for repairs, pausing her seventh war patrol. 
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14 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Tunny arrived at Tanapag Harbor, Saipan, Mariana Islands and was moored to submarine tender Fulton for repairs. 
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14 Feb 1945 WW2 The US coastal minesweeper YMS-48 was sunk by the USS Fletcher north of Corregidor, Philippine Islands, after being damaged by Japanese shore batteries. 
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14 Feb 1945 WW2 Oberstleutnant Heinz Bär was appointed as Geschwaderkommodore of III/EJG 2, the Luftwaffe unit tasked with the operational training of pilots for the Messerschmitt Me 262 Jet fighter. 
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14 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island set sail for Iwo Jima, Japan. 
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14 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Hawkbill sank two Japanese submarine chasers. 
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14 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Sennet damaged a Japanese patrol boat with her deck gun south of Japan. 
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14 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Marcus Island disembarked US Navy squadron VC-21 and embarked squadron VC-87. 
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14 Feb 1945 WW2 Ba 349 prototype aircraft M8 flew as a glider with Hans Zübert in the cockpit. 
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14 Feb 1945 WW2 Martial law ended in Greece. 
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14 Feb 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 85 arrived on board. 
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14 Feb 1945 WW2 Kiyoshi Ito saw combat against US carrier aircraft over central Japan. 
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14 Feb 1945 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Singapore. 
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14 Feb 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit the Chelmsford-to-London Road near the village of Mountnessing in Essex, England, United Kingdom at 1700 hours. 
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14 Feb 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit Wormholt Road in Kensington, London, England, United Kingdom about 1 mile west of Sheperds Bush at 2200 hours, killing 29 and injuring 41. 
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15 Feb 1945 WW2 The Ohka Model 22 variant design efforts began. 
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15 Feb 1945 WW2 Rear Admiral Zensuke Kanome was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Navy 12th Air Fleet. 
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15 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Astoria's crew found out the task force was en route to attack Tokyo, Japan; the carrier fleet USS Astoria was escorting was to launch attack planes on the following day. 
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15 Feb 1945 WW2 Soviet 3rd Guards Tank Army and Soviet 4th Tank Army surrounded Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland). 
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15 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Gabilan arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her fourth war patrol. 
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15 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Boarfish arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her first war patrol. 
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15 Feb 1945 WW2 German 11.SS-Armee launched Operation Sonnenwende in Pommern, Germany, although only III.SS-Panzer Korps started the attack on time. 
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15 Feb 1945 WW2 Japanese Shinyo explosive motor-boats sank three American LCS(L) armoured support craft at Mariveles Harbour, Bataan, Philippine Islands. 
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15 Feb 1945 WW2 Allied convoy JW-64 arrived at the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. 
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15 Feb 1945 WW2 The Takao Prisoners of War Camp near Takao (now Kaohsiung), Taiwan was closed; the prisoners were transported to Fukuoka, Japan in the preceding several weeks. 
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15 Feb 1945 WW2 Takao Naval Air Group was dissolved at Takao Guard District in southern Taiwan. 
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15 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Ticonderoga arrived at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Washington, United States for extensive repairs. 
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16 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Sargent Bay set sail for Iwo Jima. 
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16 Feb 1945 WW2 On Luzon, Philippine Islands, American troops captured the Bataan Peninsula while paratroopers assaulted the island of Corregidor at the tip of the peninsula. 
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16 Feb 1945 WW2 US 83rd Infantry Division became part of the XIX Corps of the Ninth Army of US 12th Army Group. 
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16 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island arrived 49 miles southwest of Iwo Jima, Japan and provided spotter aircraft for the battleship gun crews for the next three days. 
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16 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Sennet sank Japanese minelayer Nariu south of Japan, hitting her with 2 of 3 torpedoes fired. 
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16 Feb 1945 WW2 Indian 17th Division began crossing the Irrawady River in Burma. 
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16 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Shamrock Bay departed Ulithi, Caroline Islands as a part of Task Unit 50.8.25 in support of the invasion of Iwo Jima, Japan. 
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16 Feb 1945 WW2 German 39.Panzer Korps and 10.SS-Panzer Korps began their parts of Operation Sonnenwende in Pommern, Germany. 
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16 Feb 1945 WW2 Air Group 80 flew 6 strikes fighter squadron 80 flew 1 strike against Tokyo, Japan (both groups from USS Hancock); 3 men and 3 aircraft were lost. 
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16 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Wasp's aircraft conducted a fighter sweep over Japan; several fighters were lost in the ensuing engagement. 
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16 Feb 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit Crownford Road in Leyton, London, England, United Kingdom at 2345 hours, killing 25 and seriously injuring 10. 
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16 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Parche received fuel at Midway Atoll. 
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17 Feb 1945 WW2 US Third Army penetrated the Siegfried Line/Westwall and launched massive assault into German territory. 
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17 Feb 1945 WW2 Venezuela declared war on Germany and Japan. 
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17 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Snook ended her eighth war patrol. 
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17 Feb 1945 WW2 HMS Bluebell (Lieutenant G. H. Walker) was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-711 in the Kola Inlet off Murmansk, Russia. 
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17 Feb 1945 WW2 Soviet Deputy Commissar for Foreign Affairs Dekanozov sent a note to his superior Vyacheslav Molotov suggesting that Hungarian Count István Bethlen, who was already in Soviet custody, should be transferred to Moscow, Russia for interrogations for his past pro-British actions. 
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17 Feb 1945 WW2 Captain Ryo Kurusu, son of Japanese diplomat Saburo Kurusu, was killed in an accident on the ground at an airfield. 
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17 Feb 1945 WW2 Despite being wounded in both ankles and then hit in both legs, Lieutenant Prakash Singh dragged himself around the battlefield to direct his troops against a Japanese force in Burma. Even when hit again and mortally wounded, he inspired his men to victory by shouting their traditional Dogra war cry until he died. Singh was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. 
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17 Feb 1945 WW2 Indian 17th Division completed its crossing of the Irrawady River in Burma. Meanwhile, the Japanese counterattack on the Indian 7th Division at Nyaungu, Burma was turned by the Anglo-Indian troops, and the Japanese troops began falling back into the town. 
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17 Feb 1945 WW2 Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden arrived in Berlin, Germany to negotiate for the repatriation of Swedish woman who had married a German man but now widowed or deserted. 
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17 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Springer departed Guam, Mariana Islands for her first war patrol. 
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17 Feb 1945 WW2 Air Group 80 aircraft from USS Hancock flew 2 strikes against Tokyo, Japan; no men and no aircraft were lost. 
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17 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Wisconsin arrived off Iwo Jima, Japan and bombarded Japanese positions on the island. 
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17 Feb 1945 WW2 Allied convoy RA-64 departed the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. 
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17 Feb 1945 WW2 Nicholas Winton was promoted to the brevet rank of flying officer. 
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17 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Saint Paul was commissioned into service with Captain Ernest Herman von Heimburg in command. 
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18 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Caiman departed Fremantle, Australia for her second war patrol. 
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18 Feb 1945 WW2 Soviet troops encircled Graudenz, East Prussia, Germany (now Grudziadz, Poland). 
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18 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Guitarro sank a Japanese transport, hitting her with all of the three torpedoes fired. 
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18 Feb 1945 WW2 The German Operation Sonnenwende offensive in Pommern, Germany was halted by Soviet resistance. 
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18 Feb 1945 WW2 Folke Bernadotte met Heinrich Himmler at the SS Hohenlychen sanatorium in Lychen, Germany to discuss the release of Scandinavian Jews from concentration camps and Germany's separate peace with the Western Allies. They would not reach any agreement. 
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18 Feb 1945 WW2 Ivan Serov, head counterintelligence chief of Soviet 1st Byelorussian Front, ordered every German in Poland to be arrested. 
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18 Feb 1945 WW2 Semyon Timoshenko was awarded the Order of Lenin for the third time. 
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19 Feb 1945 WW2 Air Group 80 flew 2 strikes against Iwo Jima and fighter squadron 80 flew 1 strike against Chichi Jima and Haha Jima (both groups from USS Hancock); 1 aircraft was lost. 
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19 Feb 1945 WW2 John Basilone passed away. 
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19 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Sea Cat damaged a small Japanese ship with her deck gun. 
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19 Feb 1945 WW2 German 1st Infantry Division, 3rd Panzer Army, and 4th Army launched a counter attack in East Prussia, Germany, which was spearheaded by a captured Soviet T-34 tank. It opened a corridor between Königsberg and Pillau. The troops would hold this corridor open until early Apr, allowing thousands of civilians to be evacuated by German Navy ships. 
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19 Feb 1945 WW2 Heinrich Himmler made his first contact with Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte regarding a separate peace. 
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19 Feb 1945 WW2 US troops landed on Samar and Capul in the Philippine Islands. 
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19 Feb 1945 WW2 Units of the US 8th Division began encircling German troops trapped within the Siegfried Line/Westwall. 
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19 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Mingo departed Fremantle, Australia, resuming her seventh war patrol. 
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19 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Missouri bombarded Iwo Jima, Japan. 
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19 Feb 1945 WW2 James Lacey scored his final kill of his career as he shot down a Japanese Ki-43 aircraft, bringing his confirmed kills count to 28. 
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19 Feb 1945 WW2 Soviet 52nd Army and Soviet 3rd Guards Tank Army secured the flanks of Soviet 4th Tank Army near Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), thus ending the counter-offensive mounted by German Panzerkorps "Großdeutschland" and German XXIV Panzer Corps. 
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19 Feb 1945 WW2 At 0905 hours, the first of 30,000 US Marines landed on Iwo Jima, Japan after heavy naval bombardment. 
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19 Feb 1945 WW2 119 American B-29 bombers attacked the port and urban areas of Tokyo, Japan. 
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19 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Wasp's aircraft provided aerial cover for the Iwo Jima, Japan invasion. 
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19 Feb 1945 WW2 US B-24 bombers based in the Philippine Islands attacked Koshun Airfield, Takao Prefecture, Taiwan. 
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19 Feb 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit Bawn's factory at Blackhorse Lane in Walthamstow, London, England, United Kingdom at 1420 hours. It wrecked 12 houses, damaged 500 houses, killed 18, seriously injured 53, and lightly injured 150. 
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20 Feb 1945 WW2 German Armeegruppe Kurland suffered heavy Soviet attacks in Lithuania, but was able to resist. 
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20 Feb 1945 WW2 HMS Vervain (Lieutenant Commander R. A. Howell) was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-1276 off the coast of Ireland. 
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20 Feb 1945 WW2 HMS Activity arrived in Colombo, Ceylon. 
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20 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Pintado was detected by a Japanese aircraft in the South China Sea, which damaged her with depth charges. 
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20 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Hawkbill attacked a Japanese convoy, sinking cargo ship Daizen Maru. 
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20 Feb 1945 WW2 George Patton wrote to Omar Bradley, urging Bradley to convince Dwight Eisenhower to allow Bradley's army group to attack aggressively toward the Rhine River. 
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20 Feb 1945 WW2 Du Yuming was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. 
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20 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Parche arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her fourth war patrol. 
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20 Feb 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: The first major contingent of WAVES arrived this date. Air Group 33 departed. Air Group 5 arrived on board. 
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20 Feb 1945 WW2 US and Brazilian troops of US 5th Army launched Operation Encore against German positions at Monte Castello and Monte Della Torraca 61 kilometers southwest of Bologna, Italy. 
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20 Feb 1945 WW2 Unryu was struck from the Japanese Navy list. 
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20 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Sunfish collided with a piece of ice floe, bending both of her periscopes. She set sail for Guam, Mariana Islands to receive repairs. 
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20 Feb 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit a factory Ilford, London, England, United Kingdom, killing 7 and injuring 94. 
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21 Feb 1945 WW2 Air Group 80 from USS Hancock flew one strike in support of operations on Iwo Jima; 1 aircraft was lost. 
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21 Feb 1945 WW2 The Japanese Army and Navy launched a combined tokko attack, dispatching 4 and 21 suicide aircraft, respectively. The fleet carrier USS Saratoga and escort carrier USS Lunga Point were hit and damaged, while escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea was sunk. 
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21 Feb 1945 WW2 The first semi-navalised Hawker Sea Fury (SR661) prototype aircraft made its maiden flight. It was fitted with a Centaurus XII engine and four-bladed Rotol airscrew. 
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21 Feb 1945 WW2 Filipp Golikov was awarded the Order of Lenin for the second time. 
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21 Feb 1945 WW2 Aleksandr Vasilevsky was awarded the Order of Lenin for the third time. 
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21 Feb 1945 WW2 Vasily Chuikov was awarded the Order of Lenin for the third time. 
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21 Feb 1945 WW2 Submarine I-369 arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. 
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21 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Astoria provided naval gunfire support at Iwo Jima, Japan. 
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21 Feb 1945 WW2 Boris Shaposhnikov was awarded his third Order of Lenin. 
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21 Feb 1945 WW2 Georgy Zhukov was awarded the Order of Lenin for the third time. 
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21 Feb 1945 WW2 Kliment Voroshilov was awarded the Order of Lenin for the fourth time. 
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21 Feb 1945 RELIGIOUS Death of Eric Liddell, 43, Scottish Olympic champion runner. Later a missionary to China, Liddell was captured by the Japanese during WWII and died of a brain tumor while still imprisoned. (His college running days were portrayed in the 1981 British film, "Chariots of Fire.")
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22 Feb 1945 WW2 Air Group 80 from USS Hancock flew one strike in support of operations on Iwo Jima; 1 aircraft was lost. 
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22 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island was detached from Task Group 52.2 at Iwo Jima, Japan. 
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22 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Becuna fired ten torpedoes at a Japanese convoy in the South China Sea, with one torpedo making contact and sinking Japanese tanker Nichiyoko Maru. 
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22 Feb 1945 WW2 Soviet 6th Army captured three suburban districts of Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland). 
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22 Feb 1945 WW2 US 5th Army ended the 4-day battle for the Upper Reno Valley in Italy, located between Bologna and Florence. 
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22 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Astoria provided naval gunfire support at Iwo Jima, Japan. 
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22 Feb 1945 WW2 Nijmegen, the Netherlands was heavily bombed by American planes, causing great damage to the city center. 
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23 Feb 1945 WW2 Fortress Posen (now Poznan, Poland) was captured by Soviet troops after a month-long siege. 
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23 Feb 1945 WW2 Fighting at the Intramuros district of Manila, Philippine Islands began. On the same day, the US 11th Airborne Division, with Filipino guerrillas, freed the captives of the Los Baños internment camp in the Philippine Islands. 
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23 Feb 1945 WW2 23 German Ju-88 bombers attacked an Allied convoy from Murmansk in northern Russia to Scotland, United Kingdom. American liberty ship Henry Bacon shot down three and damaged two, setting a liberty ship record, but was eventually hit by a torpedo and sank. 23 men, including the skipper Alfred Carini, were killed. She became the last Allied vessel to be sunk by the Germans. 
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23 Feb 1945 WW2 South African pilot Captain Edwin Swales with the 582 squadron of the RAF Bomber Command held steady his heavily damaged Lancaster bomber so that the crew could parachute out of the doomed bomber. He was awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously, the last to receive this reward posthumously from the Bomber Command. 
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23 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Hoe collided with USS Flounder underwater at the depth of 60 feet, incurring light damage. 
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23 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island refueled east of Iwo Jima, Japan. 
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23 Feb 1945 WW2 Troops of Soviet 6th Army entered southern districts of Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland). 
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23 Feb 1945 WW2 Chiang Kaishek unexpectedly withdrew all Chinese forces from Burma. 
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23 Feb 1945 WW2 A raid of 379 British bombers attacked the German town of Pforzheim, killing 17,000 people and destroying 80% of the town's buildings. 
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23 Feb 1945 WW2 Ba 349 prototype aircraft conducted its first unmanned vertical launch with rocket power. 
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23 Feb 1945 WW2 The Verona Philharmonic Theatre in Italy was bombed by Allied forces. 
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23 Feb 1945 WW2 US Marines and a Navy corpsman raised an American flag atop Mount Suribachi at Iwo Jima, Japan. 
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23 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Wasp's aircraft attacked targets in the Tokyo, Japan area. 
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23 Feb 1945 WW2 Turkey declared war on Germany and Japan, effective 1 Mar 1945. 
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23 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Permit arrived at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States. 
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24 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Trepang sank freighter Usuki Maru and damaged another ship, and then survived a seven-hour depth charge barrage by multiple Japanese anti-submarine vessels. 
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24 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island launched 55 spotting sorties 56 kilometers south of Iwo Jima, Japan; 205 rockets were fired on targets of opportunity. 
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24 Feb 1945 WW2 Soviet 1st Baltic Front was disbanded; its units were merged into Soviet 3rd Byelorussian Front. 
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24 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Spot departed for her second war patrol. 
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24 Feb 1945 WW2 Ivan Konev declared the Lower Silesian Offensive a success. 
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24 Feb 1945 WW2 Indian 2nd Division crossed the Irrawady River at Ngazumi, Burma and met heavy Japanese resistance. 
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24 Feb 1945 WW2 The Soviet bridgehead over the Danube River at Hron, Slovakia was destroyed by a German attack. 
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24 Feb 1945 WW2 Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha was assassinated at parliament by 28-year-old Mustafa Essawy in the parliament building after reading a declaration of war against the Axis Powers. 
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24 Feb 1945 WW2 Adolf Hitler made what was to be his last speech to Reischsleiters and Gauleiters in the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany. 
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24 Feb 1945 WW2 Soviet troops attacked toward the eastern Pommern region of Germany (occupied Poland). 
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24 Feb 1945 WW2 During the night of 24-25 Feb, 174 American B-29 bombers dropped incendiary bombs on Tokyo, Japan and destroyed about 3 square kilometers of the city, or about 28,000 buildings. 
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24 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Wasp's aircraft launched to attack targets in the Nagoya, Japan area, but the mission was canceled due to poor weather. 
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24 Feb 1945 WW2 Major Geoffrey Hutchinson, Member of Parliament representing Ilford in London, England, United Kingdom, wrote to the Secretary for Air for assistance with recent German rocket attacks on Ilford. This letter yielded no significant results. 
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24 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Pollack arrived at New London, Connecticut, United States. 
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25 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Hoe sank Japanese convoy escort ship Shinan with 1 of 4 torpedoes fired from periscope depth. 
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25 Feb 1945 WW2 US 3rd Armored Division used M26 Pershing heavy tanks in combat for the first time near the Roer River in the Belgian-German border region. 
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25 Feb 1945 WW2 Omar Bradley gave George Patton the authority to make advances toward the Rhine River. 
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25 Feb 1945 WW2 Fighter quadron VF-80 from USS Hancock flew one fighter sweep against Tokyo, Japan; no aircraft were lost. 
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25 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Wisconsin escorted carriers as the carrier aircraft attacked Hachino, Japan. 
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25 Feb 1945 WW2 US aircraft attacked neutral Portuguese Macau. 
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25 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Alabama exited a drydock at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, United States. 
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26 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Blenny reported sinking a Japanese oiler with a torpedo. 
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26 Feb 1945 WW2 USS R-1 completed an extensive modernization. 
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26 Feb 1945 WW2 Indian 2nd Division completed the crossing of the Irrawady River at Ngazumi, Burma. 
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26 Feb 1945 WW2 1,500 French prisoners of war arrived at the Oflag IV-C camp at Colditz Castle in Germany, having been transferred from the camp at Königstein. 
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26 Feb 1945 WW2 Soviet 3rd Guards Tank Corps and 3rd Guards Cavalry Corps took over as the main offensive force in the eastern Pommern region of Germany (occupied Poland). 
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26 Feb 1945 WW2 Near Prekuln, Latvia, heavy Soviet attacks were held off by German troops. 
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26 Feb 1945 WW2 American troops captured Corregidor, Philippine Islands. 
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26 Feb 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit the Northern Outfall Sewer in West Ham, London, England, United Kingdom at night. 
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26 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Cero completed her scheduled overhaul at Mare Island Navy Shipyard in Vallejo, California, United States. 
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27 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Hoe fired 2 torpedoes at periscope depth at a Japanese freighter; both torpedoes missed. 
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27 Feb 1945 WW2 Friedrich Hüffmeier was made the military governor of the Channel Islands, succeeding Rudolf von Schmettow. 
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27 Feb 1945 WW2 Lebanon declared Independence from France and declared war on Germany and Japan. 
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27 Feb 1945 WW2 Soviet troops captured Baldenburg (now Bialy Bór, Poland) and Neustettin (now Szczecinek, Poland) in Pommern, Germany. 
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27 Feb 1945 WW2 The rocket-boosted Messerschmitt Me.262C-1a made its maiden flight. Fitted with a Walter HWK rocket motor in the tail this machine, in trials, attained an altitude of 38,400 feet from a standing start in under 4.5 minutes. 
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27 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Sunfish arrived at Apra, Guam, Mariana Islands, ending her tenth war patrol. 
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27 Feb 1945 WW2 King Mihai I of Romania appointed a Communist government. 
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27 Feb 1945 WW2 Soviet Deputy Commissar for Foreign Affairs Andrei Vyshinsky, sent to Bucharest, Romania by Joseph Stalin, forced King Mihai I to appoint Petru Groza as the new prime minister. 
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27 Feb 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit the Royal Albert Dock in London, England, United Kingdom in the morning. 
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27 Feb 1945 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt arrived in Newport News, Virginia, United States via USS Quincy. 
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28 Feb 1945 WW2 Otto Skorzeny was ordered to depart from Army Group Vistula and to return to Berlin, Germany. 
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28 Feb 1945 WW2 U-869 was attacked by American destroyer escort USS Fowler and French submarine chaser L'Indiscret off Rabat, French Morocco. Although the attack was unsuccessful, the Allies recorded it as a probably sinking. 
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28 Feb 1945 WW2 Iran declared war on Japan. 
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28 Feb 1945 WW2 US Ninth Army achieved breakthrough near Erkelenz, Germany. 
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28 Feb 1945 WW2 Soviet 2nd Byelorussian Front captured Neustettin, Germany (now Szczecinek, Poland). 
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28 Feb 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 5 departed. 
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28 Feb 1945 WW2 Soviet forces suspended offensives against German Armeegruppe Kurland in Lithuania. 
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28 Feb 1945 WW2 A F4U Corsair fighter of US Marine Corps squadron VMF-214 suffered a belly tank accidental detachment during its landing aboard USS Franklin in the Pacific Ocean between California, United States and the Territory of Hawaii. The tank flew forward into the propeller blades, and the resulting fuel spill was ignited into a fire that would burn for an hour. The pilot Ralph Husted was killed. 
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28 Feb 1945 WW2 Saudi Arabia declared war on Germany and Japan. 
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28 Feb 1945 WW2 Allied convoy RA-64 arrived at Loch Ewe, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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28 Feb 1945 WW2 USS R-1 departed for New York City, New York, United States. 
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01 Mar 1945 WW2 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. 
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01 Mar 1945 WW2 Tony Stein passed away. 
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01 Mar 1945 WW2 US Ninth Army captured cities of München-Gladback and Rheydt in Germany. On the same day, Dwight Eisenhower approved the commencement of Operation Lumberjack. 
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01 Mar 1945 WW2 German Armeegruppe Mitte recaptured Lauban, Germany (now Luban, Poland). 
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01 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Kete departed Guam, Mariana Islands for her second war patrol. 
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01 Mar 1945 WW2 Allied troops captured Roermond and Venlo in the Netherlands. 
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01 Mar 1945 WW2 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. 
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01 Mar 1945 WW2 The Japanese 12th Air Fleet was reorganized to contain one air group and one base force. 
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01 Mar 1945 WW2 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. 
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01 Mar 1945 WW2 Kurt von Cleve was named the civilian administrator of the Channel Islands. 
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01 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Wasp's aircraft attacked and photographed Japanese positions in the Ryukyu Islands. 
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01 Mar 1945 WW2 British tanks spearheaded the first assault on Meiktila. 
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01 Mar 1945 WW2 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. 
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01 Mar 1945 WW2 Italian Navy Xa MAS reported a strength of 8,395 men. 
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01 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Sterlet sank a Japanese transport in the Izu Islands, Japan, hitting her with three of six torpedoes. 
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01 Mar 1945 WW2 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. 
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02 Mar 1945 WW2 Anglo-Indian troops attacked Meiktila, Burma. 
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02 Mar 1945 WW2 In Burma, Corporal Fazal Din was attacked by six sword wielding Japanese after taking an enemy bunker and was run through the chest by one of them. As the officer pulled the sword out, Din wrestled it from him and killed him with his own weapon. Din took down another man and, waving the sword in the air, urged his men on to victory before collapsing. He died shortly afterwards and was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross. 
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02 Mar 1945 WW2 At Kamye, Burma, Corporal Gian Singh took out a series of foxholes and an anti-tank gun with Thompson submachine gun and grenades despite serious wounds. He was awarded the Victoria Cross. 
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02 Mar 1945 WW2 Elements of US Ninth Army reached the Rhine River at Neuss, Germany. To the north US Third Army captures Trier, Germany. 
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02 Mar 1945 WW2 The RAF conducted its last major raid on Köln (Cologne), Germany with 858 aircraft; also on this date, one USAAF B-17 bomber attacked Köln as a target of opportunity. 
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02 Mar 1945 WW2 Colonel General Walter Weiß reported that his forces in the Danzig-Westpreußen region of Germany (occupied Danzig and Poland) were surrounded by Soviet troops. 
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02 Mar 1945 WW2 German General of the Infantry Hermann Niehoff was named the commanding officer of the Fortress City of Breslau. 
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02 Mar 1945 WW2 1st Lieutenant Theodore Sedvert, flying a P-51 fighter, shot down Oberfaehrich Horst Netzeband, flying a Me 262 jet fighter. Netzeband was wounded in the hip, causing him to be unable to bail out and to be killed when the aircraft crashed near Dillingen, Germany at 0935 hours.  
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02 Mar 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 85 departed. 
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02 Mar 1945 WW2 US B-24, B-25, and A-20 aircraft attacked Matsuyama Airfield in Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan. 
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03 Mar 1945 WW2 Cruiser Köln was sunk by British aircraft at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. Her turrets remain above water and operational. 
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03 Mar 1945 WW2 Gheorghe Avramescu passed away. 
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03 Mar 1945 WW2 Kurt Schmidt passed away. 
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03 Mar 1945 WW2 US and Filipino troops captured Manila, Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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03 Mar 1945 WW2 Canadian troops captured Xanten, Germany while US First Army captured Krefeld, Germany. 
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03 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Charr arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her first war patrol. 
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03 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Sea Robin sank the Japanese cargo ship Suiten Maru north of Surabaja, Java, hitting her with 1 of 7 torpedoes fired; she picked up 3 survivors. 
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03 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Chub was attacked by a Japanese submarine but was able to escape unharmed. 
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03 Mar 1945 WW2 German 6th Volksgrenadier Division captured Lauban, Germany (now Poland). 
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03 Mar 1945 WW2 In Burma, British Lieutenant William Weston, 21, of the Green Howards, was clearing a labyrinth of bunkers and tunnels with grenades when he was wounded. Falling into the entrance of an enemy bunker, his only thought was for the task. He pulled the pin of a grenade and rolled into the strong-point killing himself and all inside. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. 
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03 Mar 1945 WW2 Anglo-Indian troops captured Meiktila, Burma after the final 47 Japanese defenders committed suicide. Japanese resistance in outskirts of the city would continue for a few more days. 
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03 Mar 1945 WW2 Prisoners at Hinzert satellite camp of Buchenwald Concentration Camp were evacuated. 
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03 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Franklin departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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03 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Tirante departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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03 Mar 1945 WW2 57 Mitchell and Boston bombers of the RAF Second Tactical Air Force were sent to bomb a suspected rocket launching site in a wooded park in the Hague in the Netherlands. Some of the 69 tons of bombs meant for the site missed by as much as 500 yards, hitting the Bezuidenhout district. 500 civilians were killed and 2,000 were injured, while several thousands were made homeless. The German occupation refused to help the survivors, delaring that the "Dutch have to learn what it is like", referring to the Allied bombing of German cities of Hamburg, Dresden, and others. 
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03 Mar 1945 WW2 US fighters based in the Philippine Islands strafed Koshun Airfield, Takao Prefecture, Taiwan. 
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04 Mar 1945 WW2 After breaking through near Stargard, Soviet 1st Byelorussian Front heads toward Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland). 
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04 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Baya fired six torpedoes at a Japanese convoy in the South China Sea, hitting a transport and an oil with 2 torpedoes each and sinking both. 
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04 Mar 1945 WW2 German troops encircled the spearhead of Soviet 3rd Guards Tank Army in Silesia, Germany (now Poland) during Operation Gemse. 
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04 Mar 1945 WW2 Rifleman Bhanbhagta Gurung won the Victoria Cross for advancing alone to clear Japanese positions near Mandalay, Burma ahead of General Slim's British 14th Army. 
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04 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Hancock arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands; Air Group 6 relieved Air Group 80. 
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04 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Wasp arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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04 Mar 1945 WW2 Soviet and Polish troops attacked Kolberg, Germany (now Kolobrzeg, Poland). 
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04 Mar 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Single day maximum of arrested landings (69). 
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04 Mar 1945 WW2 159 American B-29 bombers attacked the urban areas of Tokyo, Japan. 
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04 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Marcus Island began a 4-day period of training in Leyte Gulf, Philippine Islands. 
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04 Mar 1945 WW2 Allied bombers attacked Basel and Zürich by mistake. 
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04 Mar 1945 WW2 The United States adopted a policy of carpet bombing Japanese cities as opposed to precision strikes. 
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05 Mar 1945 WW2 Patrols from US First Army reached outskirts of Köln, Germany. 
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05 Mar 1945 WW2 Germany began the conscription of 15 to 16-year-old males for service. 
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05 Mar 1945 WW2 Fortress Graudenz was captrued by Soviet 2nd Byelorussian Front. At the Oksywie Heights near Gotenhafen, East Prussia, Germany (now Gdynia, Poland), 30,000 people were evacuated by ships on the previous day and this date. 
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05 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Tunny departed Saipan, Mariana Islands. 
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05 Mar 1945 WW2 The first prototype of Ki-115 Tsuragi special attack aircraft was completed. 
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05 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Sea Robin tracked an escorted convoy of two cargo ships through out the day; she sank gunboat Manyo Maru with three of three torpedoes fired, cargo ship Shoyu Maru with one of three torpedoes fired, and cargo ship Nagaru Maru with one of seven torpedoes fired. Sea Robin was hunted by Japanese ships and aircraft after the attack but was able to escape. 
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05 Mar 1945 WW2 Rear Admiral Clifton Sprague commended the "efficiency, smoothness and good judgement" of USS Wake Island and the crew. 
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05 Mar 1945 WW2 Captain Hidekazu Osuga was named the commanding officer of light carrier Hosho. 
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05 Mar 1945 WW2 Lieutenant James Lyle was named the commanding officer of HMS Dianthus. 
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05 Mar 1945 WW2 All Japanese pockets of resistance at Meiktila, Burma were eliminated. 
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05 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Missouri arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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05 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Shamrock Bay departed Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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05 Mar 1945 WW2 Soviet 19th Army reached the Baltic coast, cutting off German 2.Armee in Pommern, Germany. 
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05 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Sterlet sank a Japanese oiler south of Tokyo Bay, Japan, hitting her with five of six torpedoes. 
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06 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Franklin crossed the International Date Line. 
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06 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Sea Cat claimed sinking of a 2,000-ton Japanese ship; the credit was removed after the war. 
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06 Mar 1945 WW2 US Third Army reached the Rhine River near Koblenz, Germany, while US First Army captured Köln. 
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06 Mar 1945 WW2 A German V-2 rocket hit Raveningham 13 miles southeast of Norwich, England, United Kingdom, causing little harm. It was the last rocket to hit the Norwich area in the war. 
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06 Mar 1945 WW2 Communist-dominated government under Petru Groza assumed power in Romania. 
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06 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Segundo fired 4 torpedoes at a small Japanese ship in the East China Sea off Korea; all torpedoes missed. 
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06 Mar 1945 WW2 Operation Gen No. 2 was canceled by the Japanese; it was a new campaign against the American fleet using Kaiten special attack submarines. 
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06 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Puffer fired 3 torpedoes at a Japanese submarine off Taiwan; all 3 torpedoes missed. 
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06 Mar 1945 WW2 ShCh-307 and her crew received the Red Banner Award, and the commanding officer, M. S. Kainin, received the honorable rank of the Hero of the Soviet Union. 
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06 Mar 1945 WW2 Major-General Hellmuth Reymann, on Adolf Hitler's direct orders, became the military commander of Berlin, Germany. 
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06 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Hoe arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her eighth and final war patrol. 
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06 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Hackleback departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. 
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06 Mar 1945 WW2 German 2.Panzerarmee and 6.SS-Panzerarmee launched a counterattack toward Budapest, Hungary to relieve the city and to destroy the Hungarian oil supplies nearby to prevent Soviet use. 
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06 Mar 1945 WW2 28 American P-51 Mustang and 12 P-61 Black Widow aircraft landed on Iwo Jima, Japan. 
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06 Mar 1945 WW2 US fighters based in the Philippine Islands conducted a fighter sweep mission over Koshun Airfield, Takao Prefecture, Taiwan. 
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07 Mar 1945 WW2 US 9th Armored Division unexpectedly captured Rhine River bridge and formed a bridgehead on the east side of the river at Remagen, Germany. 
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07 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Rock departed Fremantle, Australia for her sixth war patrol. 
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07 Mar 1945 WW2 US First Army captured Köln (Cologne), Germany. 
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07 Mar 1945 WW2 Soviet troops captured Rügenwalde, Germany (now Darlowo, Poland). 
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07 Mar 1945 WW2 Anglo-Indian troops reached Mandalay, Burma. 
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07 Mar 1945 WW2 In Burma, Allied Y-Force under Sun Liren captured Lashio while Allied X-Force under Daniel Sultant captured Hsipaw. 
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07 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Cod arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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07 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Segundo sank Japanese freighter Shori Maru in the East China Sea, hitting her with 2 of 4 torpedoes fired. 
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07 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Marcus Island completed a 4-day period of training in Leyte Gulf, Philippine Islands. 
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07 Mar 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit Trundleys Road at Folkestone Gardens, London, England, United Kingdom at 0300 hours, killing 52 and seriously injuring 32. Two blocks of homes were destroyed. 
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07 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Capitaine departed New London, Connecticut, United States. 
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08 Mar 1945 WW2 In Germany, US troops entered Bonn while British and Canadian troops entered Xanten. 
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08 Mar 1945 WW2 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. 
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08 Mar 1945 WW2 1,200 Allied heavy bombers struck 6 benzol plants in Germany. 
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08 Mar 1945 WW2 US intelligence first detected the new Ohka aircraft at Konoike airfield, Japan and nicknamed them "Viper". 
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08 Mar 1945 WW2 Richard "Dick" Winters was promoted to the rank of major. 
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08 Mar 1945 WW2 Indian 19th Division began attacking Mandalay Hill near Mandalay, Burma. 
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08 Mar 1945 WW2 Ding Delong was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. 
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08 Mar 1945 WW2 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. 
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08 Mar 1945 WW2 Soviet troops reached the suburbs of Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland). 
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08 Mar 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 91 arrived on board. 
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08 Mar 1945 WW2 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. 
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08 Mar 1945 WW2 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. 
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08 Mar 1945 WW2 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. 
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09 Mar 1945 WW2 Air Group 80 was officially detached from USS Hancock. 
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09 Mar 1945 WW2 US Third Army captured Andernach, Germany. 
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09 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Kete attacked a Japanese convoy off Ryukyu Islands, Japan during the night of 9-10 Mar 1945, sinking three transports. 
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09 Mar 1945 WW2 About 50 fighters and bombers from the US 14th Air Force attacked railroad targets, river and road traffic, bridges, gun positions, and troops at several locations in central China, including the cities of Guiyi, Hengyang, Nanjing, and Xinyang. 
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09 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island departed the Iwo Jima, Japan area. 
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09 Mar 1945 WW2 Light carrier Hosho conducted torpedo evasion exercise; five of the torpedoes used were live. 
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09 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Seahorse departed for her seventh war patrol. 
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09 Mar 1945 WW2 German troops launched an offensive toward Striegau, Germany (now Strzegom, Poland). 
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09 Mar 1945 WW2 In eastern Pommern, Germany, Colonel General Walter Weiß was relieved of command of failing to halt the Soviet offensive. He was replaced by Dietrich von Saucken. 
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09 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Sennet arrived at Guam, Mariana Islands, ending her second war patrol. 
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09 Mar 1945 WW2 Operation Meetinghouse: After sundown and into the early hours of 10 Mar, 279 American B-29 bombers dropped incendiary bombs on Tokyo, Japan and destroyed 267,000 buildings and homes or 41 square kilometers of the city. Americans estimated 88,000 killed, 41,000 injured, and 1,000,000 displaced. Tokyo Fire Department estimated 97,000 killed and 125,000 wounded. Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department estimated 124,711 casualties and 286,358 destroyed buildings and homes. 
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09 Mar 1945 WW2 The BI-7 rocket-powered prototype aircraft took its second flight at Khimki near Moscow, Russia. 
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10 Mar 1945 WW2 US troops landed on Zamboanga Peninsula, Mindanao, Philippine Islands. 
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10 Mar 1945 WW2 Feldmarschall von Rundstedt was relieved by Feldmarschall Kesselring. 
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10 Mar 1945 WW2 The Germans evacuated Wesel as US Third Army captured Bonn. 
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10 Mar 1945 WW2 70 Germans tunneled out of a prisoners of war camp at Bridgend, Glamorgan, Wales, United kIngdom; all were captured within a week, including two who were caught by an unarmed girl working with the Auxiliary Territorial Service. 
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10 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Segundo fired 4 torpedoes at a Japanese ship off Korea; all torpedoes missed. 
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10 Mar 1945 WW2 24 American B-29 bombers attacked Japanese marshalling yards and air field at Kuala Lumpur, Malaya. 
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10 Mar 1945 WW2 About 60 fighters and bombers of the US 14th Air Force attacked Japanese road and river traffic, railroad, gun positions, warehouses, airfields, and troop concentrations in central China, including the cities of Hengyang, Hankou, Yueyang, and Wuchang. 
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10 Mar 1945 WW2 Anglo-Indian troops continued to assault Mandalay Hill near Mandalay, Burma. 
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10 Mar 1945 WW2 Over 25,000 civilians were evacuated from Kolberg in Pommern, Germany (now Kolobrzeg, Poland) by the Kriegsmarine. Meanwhile, Soviet 2nd Byelorussian Front attacked toward Danzig, taking Zoppot (now Sopot) along the way. 
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10 Mar 1945 WW2 Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller was mentioned in the Wehrmachtbericht daily radio report. 
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10 Mar 1945 WW2 Prince Morihiro's son Nobuhiko was born. 
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11 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Sargent Bay departed Iwo Jima. 
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11 Mar 1945 WW2 US Third Army captured Kochem, Germany. 
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11 Mar 1945 WW2 Soviet forces moved toward Gotenhafen, Germany (now Gdynia, Poland), endangering the civilian rescue effort there. 
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11 Mar 1945 WW2 The first unexploded V-2 rocket landed in England, United Kingdom, but it was not retrieved and studied until 7 Apr, by that time other unexploded rockets had been found and many secrets of the rocket had already been uncovered. 
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11 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Segundo sank Japanese cargo ship Shori Maru in the East China Sea off Korea with 2 of 4 torpedoes fired. 
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11 Mar 1945 WW2 285 American B-29 bombers attacked the Nagoya, Japan urban area with incendiary bombs. 
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11 Mar 1945 WW2 Light carrier Hosho departed Oita, Japan for target ship duty for Air Group 252's training. 
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11 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Boarfish departed Fremantle, Australia for her second war patrol. 
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11 Mar 1945 WW2 Anglo-Indian troops continued to assault Mandalay Hill near Mandalay, Burma. 
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11 Mar 1945 WW2 In Operation Tan No. 2, Japanese Navy aircraft conducted a large-scale special attack operation on American warships at Ulithi atoll, Caroline Islands. Closer to the home islands, a P1Y1 Ginga aircraft of 762nd Naval Air Group based in Kanoya, Kagoshima, Japan struck USS Randolph at dusk. 
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11 Mar 1945 WW2 Lavrentiy Beria reported to Joseph Stalin that suicides, especially among women, were becoming common in Soviet-occupied East Prussia, Germany. 
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11 Mar 1945 WW2 Adolf Hitler made a surprise visit to 9th Army headquarters in Saarow between Frankfurt an der Oder and Berlin in Germany. 
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11 Mar 1945 WW2 American fighters began flying escort operations from Iwo Jima, Japan. 
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11 Mar 1945 WW2 Settsu departed Oita, Japan for target ship duty. 
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11 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Springer attempted to attack two Japanese warships in the Pacific Ocean, but was driven off by aircraft. 
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11 Mar 1945 WW2 Allied convoy JW-65 departed Clyde, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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12 Mar 1945 WW2 US Third Army crossed Moselle River near Koblenz, Germany. 
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12 Mar 1945 WW2 Heinrich Himmler signed orders to surrender concentration camps to the Allies, which contradicted Adolf Hitler's prior order. 
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12 Mar 1945 WW2 1,108 RAF bombers attacked Dortmund, Germany, dropping 4,851 tons of bombs. 
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12 Mar 1945 WW2 German Jew Anne Frank died in Belsen Concentration Camp. 
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12 Mar 1945 WW2 Soviet troops captured Küstrin, Germany. 
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12 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Croaker departed Fremantle, Australia for her fourth war patrol. 
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12 Mar 1945 WW2 German troops cut off elements of Soviet 5th Guards Army in Silesia, Germany (now Poland) before dawn. 
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12 Mar 1945 WW2 Japanese troops launched a counteroffensive aimed at recapturing Meiktila, Burma. 
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12 Mar 1945 WW2 Soviet and Polish troops launched a renewed assault on Kolberg, Germany (now Kolobrzeg, Poland). 
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12 Mar 1945 WW2 SS General Ernst Kaltenbrunner agreed to allow Red Cross delegates to visit concentration camps. 
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12 Mar 1945 WW2 HMS Colossus departed Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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13 Mar 1945 WW2 Operation Undertone: US 3rd and 7th Armies advanced toward Rhine River. 
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13 Mar 1945 WW2 274 US aircraft bombed and destroyed 8.1 square miles of Osaka, Japan. 
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13 Mar 1945 WW2 Heinrich Himmler abandoned his command with Army Group Vistula; he would later claim that it was due to sickness. 
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13 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Tunny conducted a special reconnaissance mission off the Ryukyu Islands in preparation of the invasion of Okinawa, Japan. 
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13 Mar 1945 WW2 A British No. 617 Squadron RAF Lancaster bomber test-dropped a 22,000-lb Grand Slam bomb. 
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13 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Franklin arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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13 Mar 1945 WW2 RAF Wellington bombers of No. 40 Squadron attacked Trevisio, Italy with 4,000 lb "cookie" bombs. 
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14 Mar 1945 WW2 A new pocket of German troops was formed near Braunsberg, East Prussia, Germany (now Braniewo, Poland). 
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14 Mar 1945 WW2 The German attack against the Hungarian oil fields near Lake Balaton and Budapest was halted. 
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14 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Kete attacked a Japanese cable-laying ship off Ryukyu Islands, Japan. 
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14 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Tunny placed over 230 mines in waters in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. 
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14 Mar 1945 WW2 Lieutenant Gordon H. McDaniel of the US 318 Fighter Squadron, 325th Fighter Group, flying P-51 fighter "Mary Mac" achieved six kills (all Fw 190 fighters) during a single mission in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations. 
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14 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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14 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Missouri departed Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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14 Mar 1945 WW2 US Navy Task Force 58 departed Ulithi, Caroline Islands to provide indirect support for the campaign against Okinawa, Japan. 
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14 Mar 1945 WW2 A British No. 617 Squadron RAF Lancaster bomber commanded by Squadron Leader C. C. Calder dropped a 22,000-pound Grand Slam bomb on the Bielefeld viaduct, breaking two spans. It was the first time the Grand Slam bomb was used in combat. 
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14 Mar 1945 WW2 Donald Bryan, flying a P-51 fighter, shot down 1 of the 11 Ar 234B-1 jet bombers attacking the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen, Germany. Hauptman Hans Hirshberger failed to bail out and was killed in the crash; this was his first and final combat mission. 
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14 Mar 1945 WW2 The island of Iwo Jima was declared conquered by Chester Nimitz, noting that "all powers of government of the Japanese Empire in these islands are hereby suspended", but fighting would continue. 
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14 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Springer attacked a Japanese patrol boat in the East China Sea, but the torpedo missed. 
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15 Mar 1945 WW2 US First Army was unable to further expand the Remagen bridgehead in Germany due to enemy resistance. 
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15 Mar 1945 WW2 Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front began an offensive near Ratibor, Germany (now Racibórz, Poland). 
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15 Mar 1945 WW2 Prince Edward, the Duke of Windsor and the former King of the United Kingdom, resigned as the British governor of the Bahamas. This position was succeeded by Sir William Lindsay Murphy. 
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15 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Tunny departed Ryukyu Islands, Japan. 
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15 Mar 1945 WW2 American warships of Task Force 92 bombarded Japanese installations on Matsuwa, Kurile Islands. 
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15 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Sea Robin arrived at Subic Bay, Philippine Islands and took on supplies. 
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15 Mar 1945 WW2 Vice Admiral Kanji Ugaki was named the commanding officer of the Japanese Navy 12th Air Fleet. 
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15 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Guitarro arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her fourth war patrol. 
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15 Mar 1945 WW2 Albert Speer wrote a letter to Adolf Hitler in an attempt to dissuade him from destroying German infrastructure. This letter would be presented to Hitler three days later. 
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15 Mar 1945 WW2 Soviet 4th Tank Army launched a main attack against the Germans in Silesia, Germany (now Poland). 
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15 Mar 1945 WW2 Anglo-Indian troops surrounded Fort Dufferin in Mandalay, Burma. 
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15 Mar 1945 WW2 American bombers dropped 25,000 incendiary bombs and 6,000 high explosive bombs on the German army general staff headquarters at Zossen, Germany. 
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15 Mar 1945 WW2 The Inrin Prisoners of War Camp in central Taiwan was closed. 
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15 Mar 1945 WW2 Two German V-2 rockets fell in the River Thames near the Ford factory in Dagenham, London, England, United Kingdom, causing no injuries. 
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16 Mar 1945 WW2 Commanding officer Captain William Rassieur of USS Sargent Bay was relieved by Captain Richard Oliver. 
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16 Mar 1945 WW2 American bombers dropped 300 bombs on Vienna, Austria, many of which landed in the Tiergarten Schönbrunn, which was the world's oldest zoo. 2,000 animals out of 3,500 in the zoo were killed. 
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16 Mar 1945 WW2 307 US B-29 bombers devastated a 3-square mile area in Kobe, Japan and caused 15,000 in casualties. 
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16 Mar 1945 WW2 12 Lancaster bombers and 12 Halifax bombers conducted minelaying operations off Helgoland, Germany and in the Kattegat. 
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16 Mar 1945 WW2 Heinrich Himmler, having abandoned his command with Army Group Vistula three days prior, checked himself into a sanatorium at Hohenlychen, Germany so that doctors there could treat his influenza. When Heinz Guderian came to visit him, he would request Guderian to carry his letter of resignation as commanding officer of Army Group Vistula to Adolf Hitler. 
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16 Mar 1945 WW2 US troops in landed on Basilan in the Philippine Islands. 
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16 Mar 1945 WW2 Rudolf Heß noted that 2 million Jews were gassed between Jun 1941 and late 1943. 
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16 Mar 1945 WW2 Anglo-Indian troops assaulted Fort Dufferin in Mandalay, Burma in failure, suffering heavy casualties. 
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16 Mar 1945 WW2 32 B-24 bombers of the US 14th Air Force escorted by 10 P-51 fighters attacked railyards at Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China. 
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16 Mar 1945 WW2 German forces began falling back from the front lines at Kolberg, Germany (now Kolobrzeg, Poland). 
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16 Mar 1945 WW2 Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front threw two fresh armies against the German attack towards Budapest, Hungary. 
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16 Mar 1945 WW2 Americans declared Iwo Jima, Japan secure, but fighting continued. 
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16 Mar 1945 WW2 Japanese submarine I-14 departed Kobe, Japan. 
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16 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Spot sank a Japanese cargo ship in the East China Sea, hitting her with 1 of 8 torpedoes fired. 
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16 Mar 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit at Albert Road in Leyton, London, England, United Kingdom at 0638 hours, killing 23 and seriously injuring 18. Another rocket hit Willesden near Hampstead, London at 0230 hours, damaging 200 houses. 
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17 Mar 1945 WW2 The bridge at Remagen, Germany, which had served the Allies so well, collapsed after repeated being bombed by German Ar 234 jet bombers. Twenty-eight American engineers trying to strengthen the structure were swept away to their deaths. Meanwhile, US Third Army captured Koblenz, Germany. 
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17 Mar 1945 WW2 Eisenhower ordered Patton to cease making plans to enter German-occupied Czechoslovakia. 
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17 Mar 1945 WW2 1,260 Allied heavy bombers hit 2 synthetic oil plants in Germany while 650 medium bombers attacked the rail system. 
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17 Mar 1945 WW2 Chinese 6th Army captured Hsipaw, Burma. 
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17 Mar 1945 WW2 The Indian 5th Division arrived in the Meiktila, Burma area. To the south, Anglo-Indian troops again assaulted Fort Dufferin in Mandalay, Burma in failure, suffering heavy casualties. 
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17 Mar 1945 WW2 German troops evacuated Kolberg, Germany (now Kolobrzeg, Poland) by sea. 
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17 Mar 1945 WW2 331 US B-29 bombers destroyed 7 square kilometers of Kobe, Japan; 8,841 were killed and 650,000 were displaced. The US attack also heavily damaged submarine I-15, which was under-construction at Kobe, nearly completed. 
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17 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Spot attacked a Japanese convoy in the East China Sea, sinking one ship and damaging another; 16 torpedoes were expended in this attack. 
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17 Mar 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit 212 Finchley Road near Borough Central Library in Hampstead, London, England, United Kingdom. Aside from the library, 1,000 homes, the telephone exchange, the lighting station, Council's Work Depot, Warden's Post No. 16, and Women's Vountary Service offices were damaged. Another rocket hit the Rippleway sidings in Barking, London at 2230 hours. 
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17 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Alabama departed Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, United States. 
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18 Mar 1945 WW2 2nd Lieutenant Guy Cary of US 15th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron shot down a He 162 jet fighter, but positive identification on the victim was not made; some thought it might had been a Me 262 jet fighter. 
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18 Mar 1945 WW2 In Burma, Lieutenant Karamjeet Singh Judge directed the destruction of ten enemy bunkers at a heavily defended cotton mill at Myingyan. Guiding a tank to another bunker for some reason he asked the commander to hold fire while he checked it out. He entered the bunker but was shot. The 21-year-old Punjabi was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. 
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18 Mar 1945 WW2 Indian 5th Division captured Myingyan, Burma. In the area, Anglo-Indian troops attempted to cross the moat of Fort Dufferin in Mandalay, Burma in failure, suffering heavy casualties. 
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18 Mar 1945 WW2 US Third Army captured Boppard, Germany. 
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18 Mar 1945 WW2 Soviet 1st Polish Army captured Kolberg, Germany (now Kolobrzeg, Poland) while other Soviet units approached Gdynia and Danzig. 
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18 Mar 1945 WW2 Albert Speer, sensing Adolf Hitler's wish to potentially order the destruction of Germany to prevent Allied capture, attempted to persuade Hitler not to destroy the future of Germany. 
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18 Mar 1945 WW2 General Mark Clark established the goal of the Allied offensive in Italy in spring 1945 to be 'to destroy the maximum number of enemy forces south of the Po , force crossings of the Po and capture Verona'. 
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18 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Franklin arrived in position south of Japan and launched F4U Corsair fighters of US Marine Corps squadron VMF-214 against the targets in Kagoshima Prefecture. USMC pilot John Stodd was shot down over Izumi Airfield and was captured. The US airmen destroyed many Japanese aircraft on the ground at Izumi. 
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18 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Tunny detected a Japanese convoy but she failed to gain favorable attack positions. 
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18 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Missouri escorted carriers while the aircraft aircraft struck Japan. 
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18 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Springer sank Japanese Transport No. 18 in the East China Sea, hitting her with 3 of 8 torpedoes fired. 
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18 Mar 1945 WW2 Filipino guerrillas welcomed the invading American troops on Panay, Philippine Islands. 
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18 Mar 1945 WW2 US B-24 aircraft, A-20 aircraft, and fighters based in the Philippine Islands attacked Koshun Airfield, Takao Prefecture, Taiwan. 
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18 Mar 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit the Speaker's Corner at the edge of Hyde Park in London, England, United Kingdom at 0930 hours, killing 3 and seriously injuring 9. 
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18 Mar 1945 WW2 Pope Pius XII denounced Nazi German racist policies. 
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19 Mar 1945 WW2 US Seventh Army captured Worms, Germany. 
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19 Mar 1945 WW2 Hitler issued the Nero Decree, which was a scorched Earth policy to prevent any industry, utility, or transportation from being used by the advancing Allied and Soviet armies. Albert Speer, the Armaments Minister, recognized the need for this infrastructure after the war and undermined efforts to carry out the decree. 
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19 Mar 1945 WW2 General of Panzer Troops Walther Nehring replaced Gotthard Heinrici as the commander of the German 1.Panzerarmee. 
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19 Mar 1945 WW2 Adolf Hitler ordered Gotthard Heinrici to replace Heinrich Himmler as the commander of Group Vistula as suggested by Heinz Guderian. 
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19 Mar 1945 WW2 France signed an economic pact with the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. 
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19 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Sea Robin departed Subic Bay, Philippine Islands, continuing her second war patrol. 
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19 Mar 1945 WW2 Anglo-Indian troops attempted to cross the moat of Fort Dufferin in Mandalay, Burma in failure, suffering heavy casualties. A commando raid was put together to penetrate the fortress, but it would not be carried out due to the unexpected Japanese surrender on the next day. 
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19 Mar 1945 WW2 Soviet troops captured the heights over Zoppot, Germany (formerly of Danzig; now Sopot, Poland) near the city of Danzig. 
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19 Mar 1945 WW2 Dwight Eisenhower, Walter Bedell Smith, and Kay Summersby arrived at Cannes, France to take a short break from the war. He spent much of the next three days sleeping and simply doing nothing. 
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19 Mar 1945 WW2 George Patton received permission from his superiors to take the US 3rd Army across the Rhine River. 
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19 Mar 1945 WW2 USS S-35 was decommissioned from service at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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19 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Parche departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her fifth war patrol. 
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19 Mar 1945 WW2 In Japan, aircraft of US Navy TF 58 attacked targets on Kyushu and Honshu (Kure, Osaka, and Kobe), destroying submarine I-205 (still under construction) and damaging many warships. 
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19 Mar 1945 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho was damaged by three bombs and two rockets delivered by US aircraft at Kure, Japan between 0720 and 0905 hours. 20 were killed and 30 were wounded. Her flight deck and boiler room were damaged, and a gash on the port side caused her to settle in six feet of water on the aft side. 
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19 Mar 1945 WW2 Light carrier Hosho was attacked by 7 US aircraft off Kure, Japan at 0532 hours, receiving three hits, which caused minor damage and killed six. 
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19 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Franklin was struck by a 250-kilogram bomb by a Japanese D4Y3 or D3A aircraft, which broke through the fir planks and detonated in the hangar deck; the 22 aircraft in the hangar deck, which were in the process of arming and refueling, burst in blames. A second bomb, ignition of gasoline vapors, or ignition of ammunition destroyed a further 31 aircraft. Damage control teams were able to save the ship. 724 were killed and 265 were wounded. 
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19 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Kete was ordered to depart Ryukyu Islands area for refueling at Midway, then to sail on to Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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19 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Bluefish damaged a Japanese boat south of Japan with her deck gun. 
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19 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Iowa departed San Francisco, California, United States. 
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20 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Blenny attacked a Japanese convoy and reported sinking three transports with torpedoes. 
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20 Mar 1945 WW2 US Seventh Army captured Saarbrücken, Germany while the US Third Army reached Mainz, Germany. 
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20 Mar 1945 WW2 General Gotthard Heinrici replaced Heinrich Himmler as the commanding officer of Army Group Vistula. Meanwhile, Heinz Guderian failed to convince Himmler to ask Hitler to consider peace negotiations. 
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20 Mar 1945 WW2 German Armeegruppe Weichsel's (Vistula) Oder River bridgehead near Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland) was evacuated. 
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20 Mar 1945 WW2 RAF aircraft attacked a Gestapo building in Copenhagen, Denmark, killing 100 Germans and 6 prisoners. A school nearby was also hit, killing 112 Danish civilians, 86 of whom children. 
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20 Mar 1945 WW2 Japanese troops launched an offensive aimed at American bases at Laohokow and Ankong in China. 
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20 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Kete sent a weather report south of Colnett Strait in the northern Ryukyu Islands, Japan, then was never heard again. 
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20 Mar 1945 WW2 Submarine I-369 was reassigned to Submarine Division 16 as her original unit, Submarine Squadron 7, became deactivated. 
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20 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Baya claimed sinking a Japanese destroyer in the South China Sea, hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes fired. 
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20 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Hackleback fired an acoustic seeking torpedo and then fired her deck gun at a small Japanese warship south of Japan; all attacks failed to hit the target. 
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20 Mar 1945 WW2 Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov authorized the transfer of Hungarian Count István Bethlen, already arrested by the Soviets in Hungary, to be transferred to Moscow, Russia for interrogation. 
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20 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Gabilan departed Fremantle, Australia for her fifth war patrol. 
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20 Mar 1945 WW2 Indian 19th Infantry Division captured Mandalay, Burma. 
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20 Mar 1945 WW2 The first XP-80A prototype jet aircraft "Gray Ghost" crashed; test pilot LeVier was able to bail out to safety. 
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21 Mar 1945 WW2 Soviet forces captured Braunsberg near Königsberg in East Prussia, Germany. 
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21 Mar 1945 WW2 US First Army advanced toward Siegburg, Germany. 
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21 Mar 1945 WW2 The Japanese made the first operational sortie with the Yokosuka Ohka (Cherry Blossom) suicide aircraft. The sixteen Mitsubishi G4M2e bombers of 321st Squadron launched aircraft were intercepted short of their target and were forced to jettison their piloted weapons. 
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21 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Baya fired three torpedoes at a Japanese transport in the South China Sea; all torpedoes missed. 
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21 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Preston departed for Ryukyu Islands. 
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21 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island departed Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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21 Mar 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 53 arrived on board. 
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21 Mar 1945 WW2 Soviet forces captured Székesfehérvár (German: Stuhlweißenburg), Hungary. 
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21 Mar 1945 WW2 Allied convoy JW-65 arrived at the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. 
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21 Mar 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit the Packard factory in London, England, United Kingdom at 0939 hours, destroying it and damaging 13 factories and 662 houses; it killed 32, seriously injured 100, and lightly injured 460. Another rocket hit Primrose Hill in St Pancras (though officially listed as in Hampstead), London, damaging the reservoir and injuring 14 people. 
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21 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Carbonero departed New London, Connecticut, United States. 
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22 Mar 1945 WW2 Takeichi Nishi passed away. 
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22 Mar 1945 WW2 Soviet troops under General Konev crossed Oder River at Oppeln, Poland. 
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22 Mar 1945 WW2 British Corporal Reg Rattey won the Victoria Cross on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands by destroying three pillboxes which were decimating his platoon. 
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22 Mar 1945 WW2 Lieutenant Commander Masato Nakajima became the commanding officer of Submarine I-369. 
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22 Mar 1945 WW2 Soviet troops wiped out all German troops enveloped at Oppeln, Germany (now Opole, Poland). 
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22 Mar 1945 WW2 Richard O'Connor was Mentioned in Despatches. 
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22 Mar 1945 WW2 In Burma, British Royal Engineers Lieutenant Claud Raymond, 21 years old, was sent to cause a diversion ahead of the main force. He did just that, drawing heavy Japanese resistance during which he was badly wounded, first in the shoulder, then by shrapnel, and finally his wrist was shattered. Nevertheless, his mission was a success. He refused medical attention until all his wounded were treated but died from his wounds on the following day. Raymond was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. 
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22 Mar 1945 WW2 Anglo-Indian troops eliminated all Japanese pockets of resistance in the Myingyan region in Burma. 
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22 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Cassin Young departed Ulithi, Caroline Islands for Okinawa. 
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22 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Missouri arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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22 Mar 1945 WW2 American war correspondent Clarence Beliel, commonly known by the name of Don Bell, was shot down over Xiamen Harbor, China while flying in a PB4Y2 Privateer aircraft. He and other survivors, including pilot Jim Evans, were helped by pirates under the control of Chang Yizhou, who was under the employment of Chinese Army intelligence chief General Dai Li, posing as civilian fishermen. The Americans later recuperated at US Navy's SACO Camp No. 6. 
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22 Mar 1945 WW2 The US 3rd Army crossed the Rhine River west of Mainz and near Oppenheim just before midnight; the Americans had beaten the British in crossing the river. Opposition was negligible and within 24 hours the entire US 5th Division had crossed the river. 
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22 Mar 1945 WW2 Colonel-General Gotthard Heinrici was appointed commander of German Army Group Vistula with orders to hold the Soviets on the Oder and save Berlin, Germany. 
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22 Mar 1945 WW2 Four aircraft from No. 617 Squadron RAF (one carrying a "Grand Slam" bomb) attacked and destroyed the Nienburg Bridge in Germany. 
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23 Mar 1945 WW2 As US Third Army made another Rhine River crossing near Worms, Germany, British Second Army and Canadian First Army launched their assaults across the Rhine River north of the Ruhr River. In Berlin, Adolf Hitler wanted to counterattack at the Allied bridgehead at Oppenheim, but he was told that no reserve forces were available to embark on such an operation. 
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23 Mar 1945 WW2 General de Gaulle granted limited self-government for Indochina, which was to remain a French colony. 
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23 Mar 1945 WW2 Dwight Eisenhower wrapped up his short break at Cannes, France and returned to his capacity as the Allied commander. 
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23 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Tunny began performing lifeguard duties off Okinawa, Japan. 
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23 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Sea Robin rescued a downed American airman in the South China Sea. 
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23 Mar 1945 WW2 Martin Bormann ordered millions of Germans to migrate from western and eastern Germany to the central part of the country; no food and transports were allocated to them, thus such a move would mean certain disaster. 
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23 Mar 1945 WW2 Light carrier Hosho was assigned to the 2nd Fleet. 
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23 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Spot arrived at Saipan, Mariana Islands. 
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23 Mar 1945 WW2 Allied convoy RA-65 departed the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. 
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23 Mar 1945 WW2 US aircraft dropped 145 tons of bombs on Jitsugetsu Power Plant No. 1 and 63 tons of bombs on Jitsugetsu Power Plant No. 2 in Taichu (now Nantou County), Taiwan. 
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24 Mar 1945 WW2 George Patton urinated into the Rhine River. Upon completing his crossing over a pontoon bridge, he took some dirt on the far bank, emulating his favorite historical figure William the Conqueror. 
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24 Mar 1945 WW2 Operation Plunder landed over 16,000 British and American troops across the Rhine River region, allowing link ups with advancing British 21st Army Group's 4 bridgeheads. Meanwhile, US Third Army captured Ludwigshafen and Speyer, Germany. 
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24 Mar 1945 WW2 US 9th Army began to seal off the Ruhr region in Germany. 
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24 Mar 1945 WW2 HMS Activity departed Sydney, Australia. 
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24 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Missouri bombarded Okinawa, Japan. 
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24 Mar 1945 WW2 Major General Matthew Ridgway, the commanding officer of US XVIII Airborne Corps, was wounded in the shoulder by fragments from a German grenade. 
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24 Mar 1945 WW2 Lieutenant General Daniel Sultan's Sino-American force linked up with British troops at Kyaukme, Burma. 
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24 Mar 1945 WW2 B-17 bombers attacked the Daimler-Benz tank factory in Berlin, Germany; the bombers were escorted by P-51 fighters flown by African-American pilots of 332nd Fighter Group from Ramitelli Airfield in Italy. About 30 Me 262 jet fighter of German Jagdgeschwader 7 wing rose to defend. The American fighter and bomber airmen together claimed 16 jets shot down, but actual German records showed that only 8 were lost in this action. 
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24 Mar 1945 WW2 Adolf Hitler's personal Ju 290A-5 transport aircraft was destroyed by Allied bombing at München (Munich), Germany. 
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24 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Cod departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her sixth war patrol. 
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24 Mar 1945 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Yokosuka, Japan and prepared to enter drydocks for repairs. 
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24 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Wisconsin bombarded Okinawa, Japan. 
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24 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Preston arrived off Kerama Islands, Japan. 
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24 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Luce departed Philippine waters to escort ships which were sailing for Kelse Shima, Ryukyu Islands. 
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24 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Sea Cat arrived at Midway Atoll, ending her second war patrol. 
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25 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Sargent Bay arrived in Okinawa. 
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25 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Tirante sank Japanese tanker Fuji Maru. 
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25 Mar 1945 WW2 US First Army finally broke out of Remagen bridgehead in Germany. 140 kilometers to the north, British Second Army captured Wesel, Germany. 
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25 Mar 1945 WW2 Retreating USAAF personnel blew up the Laohokow air base in China to prevent Japanese capture. 
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25 Mar 1945 WW2 British General Montgomery issued a non-fraternization order as British troops entered Germany. 
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25 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island arrived about 100 kilometers south of Okinawa, Japan. 
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25 Mar 1945 WW2 Winston Churchill, accompanied by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, crossed the Rhine River in Germany, visiting HQ 21st Army Group and delivered a characteristic message to officers and men. 
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25 Mar 1945 WW2 Maximilian von Weichs stepped down as the commanding officer of German Armeegruppe F. 
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25 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Springer arrived at Guam, Mariana Islands, ending her first war patrol. 
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25 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Finback arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her twelfth and final war patrol. 
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25 Mar 1945 WW2 Tadamichi Kuribayashi passed away on Iwo Jima, Japan. He reportedly committed ritual suicide, but his body was never found. 
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25 Mar 1945 WW2 18 US A-20 bombers from Luzon, Philippine Islands attacked a factory at Kyoshito District (now Qiaotou District), Takao (now Kaohsiung), Taiwan. 
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25 Mar 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit Whitfield Street in St Pancras, London, England, United Kingdom in the late afternoon, killing 9 and seriously injuring 46. The Whitfield Memorial Chapel at Tottenham Court Road was badly damaged. In the evening, at 2300 hours, another rocket hit Broadfield Square in Enfield, London, killing 7 and seriously injuring 100. 
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25 Mar 1945 WW2 The second FR Fireball prototype aircraft was destroyed in a crash. 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 In Germany, US Third Army captured Darmstadt and reached Main, allowing the linking up with US Seventh Army near Worms. On the banks of the Rhine River the British Royal Corps of Engineers completed the construction of a Class 9 bridge "Waterloo Bridge" at 0100 hours and a Class 15 bridge "Lambeth Bridge" at 0830 hours. Meanwhile the construction of an even larger Class 40 bridge "London Bridge" continued and was completed by midnight. 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 Nazi German official Martin Bormann called for German citizens to become "Werewolf" guerillas. 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 General George Patton dispatched the 300-strong Task Force Baum to liberate prisoner of war camp OFLAG XIII-B near Hammelburg, Germany, where his son-in-law John Waters was imprisoned. 32 men were killed and about 200 were captured as the mission resulted in a complete failure. It became another controversy in Patton's military career, in which he was accused of risking 300 lives to save a family member. 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Segundo arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her third war patrol. 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 Soviet troops captured the cities of Devecser and Pápa in Hungary, thus nearing the Austrian border. 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 Junio Valerio Borghese was made the Chief of the Naval Staff. 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 The Japanese mounted the final suicide charge with 200-300 men at Iwo Jima, Japan. 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Halligan was fatally damaged by a mine off Okinawa, Japan. The abandoned hulk drifted aground on Tokashiki Island where she was finished off by Japanese shore batteries on the following day. 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Marcus Island arrived in the Kerama Islands southwest of Okinawa, Japan and would remain in the Okinawa area for the next month in support of the invasion. 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 Yoshijiro Umezu rejected the proposal to deliver biological weapons by submarine-borne aircraft on a city on the west coast of the United States due to ethical reasons. Without army support, Operation PX would soon be canceled. 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 A small scale special attack by aircraft was conducted by the Japanese off Okinawa, Japan, but a large scale tokko campaign was to come in the future. 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 Soviet forces captured Gotenhafen, Germany (now Gdynia, Poland). 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 Boris Shaposhnikov passed away in Moscow, Russia. 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 Two German V-2 rockets hit Romford, Essex, England, United Kingdom. The first struck Forest Road, destroying 16 buildings and killing 2. The second rocket destroyed one building named "Victory Hut" at Nook Hill. 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 Former British Prime Minister David Lloyd George who led the country during WW1 died of cancer in Ty Newydd, Llanystumdwy, Caernarfonshire, Wales, United Kingdom at the age of 83. 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 Sir Nicholas Cayzer of Britain called for the scrapping of the vast amount of American-built shipping at the end of the war, for otherwise British post-war sea trade would be made uneconomical. 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Dragonet departed Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States. 
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26 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Ray departed San Francisco, California, United States. 
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27 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Caiman detected a Japanese cargo ship in the southern South China Sea and fired 4 torpedoes; they failed to hit the target. 
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27 Mar 1945 WW2 Red Army fought fight their way into Danzig in the face of heavy resistance. 
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27 Mar 1945 WW2 A German counter attack from Frankfurt, Germany towards Küstrin barely got out of the city. Meanwhile, US Third Army captured Aschaffenburg, Germany, 40 kilometers to the southeast. 
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27 Mar 1945 WW2 American B-29 aircraft mined Kanmon Straits near Shimonoseki, Japan. 
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27 Mar 1945 WW2 Argentina declared war on the Axis alliance. The interned sailors of the Admiral Graf Spee (since Dec 1939) were now considered prisoners of war. 
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27 Mar 1945 WW2 Before dawn, USS Rock fired six torpedoes at a Japanese destroyer escort; she claimed the target was sunk with one hit, but the sinking was not confirmed. In the late evening, USS Rock fired a torpedo at another Japanese destroyer; the torpedo missed. 
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27 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Charr departed Fremantle, Australia for her second war patrol. 
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27 Mar 1945 WW2 Dwight Eisenhower wrote Joseph Stalin a letter in an effort to coordinate the movement of Anglo-American and Soviet front lines as the two fronts neared each other in Germany. 
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27 Mar 1945 WW2 The US 5th Marine Division departed from Iwo Jima, Japan (its only combat operation), bound for US Territory of Hawaii for resting. 
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27 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Spot departed Saipan, Mariana Islands. 
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27 Mar 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit Ilford, London, England, United Kingdom. It was to be the last rocket to strike this suburban district of London. To date, 117 Ilford residents were killed by rockets, while 349 were seriously injured. A second V-2 rocket hit Hughes Mansions, Stepney, London, killing 134 and injuring 49. 
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27 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Manta departed New London, Connecticut, United States. 
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28 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Tirante sank Japanese freighter Nase Maru. 
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28 Mar 1945 WW2 General Krebs replaced General Guderian as the head of the German OKH. 
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28 Mar 1945 WW2 Soviet 1st Byelorussian Front captured Gotenhafen and Danzig (now Gdynia and Gdansk, respectively), yielding 9,000 prisoners of war. 
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28 Mar 1945 WW2 The US submarine Trigger was depth charged and sunk by Japanese vessels whilst on patrol in the East China Sea. 
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28 Mar 1945 WW2 In Germany, US 1st Army captured Marburg and US 3rd Army captured Limburg am Lahn. Meanwhile, British 2nd Army began an offensive towards the Elbe River. British sappers built another Rhine bridge, "Blackfriars", by noon. Behind the lines, Dwight Eisenhower transferred US 9th Army from Bernard Montgomery's army group to Omar Bradley's army group as Anglo-American objective shifted toward southern Germany and Czechoslovakia. 
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28 Mar 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: All major units of Construction Battalion have departed this station. 
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28 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Boarfish attacked a Japanese patrol vessel in the South China Sea; all 3 torpedoes missed. 
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29 Mar 1945 WW2 British anti-aircraft gunners shot down a V-1 flying bomb at Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. 
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29 Mar 1945 WW2 Soviet troops entered former Czechoslovakian province of Ruthenia. 
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29 Mar 1945 WW2 Soviet 1st Byelorussian Front captured Fortress Küstrin in Germany. 
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29 Mar 1945 WW2 Omar Bradley was promoted to the temporary rank of general. 
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29 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Macabi was commissioned into service with Commander Anthony H. Dropp in command. 
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29 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Chub spotted a Japanese convoy in the Java Sea and began pursuing the ships, attacked by patrolling aircraft in the process. 
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29 Mar 1945 WW2 The Japanese called off the attempt to recapture Meiktila, Burma. 
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29 Mar 1945 WW2 In Germany, US Third Army captured Frankfurt and Wiesbaden and US Seventh Army captured Mannheim. British sappers built another Rhine bridge, "Westminster". 
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29 Mar 1945 WW2 Germany lost its last major source of oil when Soviet units captured the Komorn oil fields in Hungary. 
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29 Mar 1945 WW2 Japanese Navy Shinyo special attack boats launched an attack at Okinawa, Japan to no effect. 
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29 Mar 1945 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt visited Hyde Park, New York, United States and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library for what would be the last time. 
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30 Mar 1945 WW2 US First Army attacked Paderborn, Germany. Beyond the German front lines, US aircraft harassed retreating German columns, destroying 246 trucks and 241 railway wagons. 
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30 Mar 1945 WW2 Soviet troops marched into Danzig, taking 10,000 prisoners of war and capturing 45 submarines. 
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30 Mar 1945 WW2 German Armeegruppe Weichsel (Vistula) evacuated its last Oder River bridgehead from Wollin, Germany. 
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30 Mar 1945 WW2 Soviet troops crossed the Hron and Nitra Rivers in Czechoslovakia and crossed into occupied Austria near Koszeg, Hungary. They were now 50 miles from Vienna, Ostmark, Germany. 
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30 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Sea Robin detected a group of six Japanese destroyers in the South China Sea just off Hainan, China. She fired 3 and then 6 torpedoes, but all 9 torpedoes missed. She survived 20 minutes of depth charging after the attack. 
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30 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Pintado arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her fourth war patrol. 
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30 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Chub rescued three American airmen off Yulikan Bay, Hainan island, China. 
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30 Mar 1945 WW2 Indian 19th Division captured Kyaukse, 20 miles south of Mandalay, Burma. 
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30 Mar 1945 WW2 USAAF bombers bombed German ports of Hamburg, Bremen, and Wilhelmshaven. 
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30 Mar 1945 WW2 Commandant of the SS castle of Schloß Wewelsburg in Büren, Germany, Siegfried Taubert, abandoned the castle as US 3rd Armored Division approached. 
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30 Mar 1945 WW2 Jewish women being led to their deaths at the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp in Germany fought against their SS guards in an attempt to escape. Nine of them got away, but they were soon captured and were killed with the rest of the group. 
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30 Mar 1945 WW2 Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller was mentioned in the Wehrmachtbericht daily radio report. 
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30 Mar 1945 WW2 Georgy Zhukov was awarded the Order of Victory for the second time. 
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30 Mar 1945 WW2 US aircraft attacked a railway linking Shoka (now Changhua) and Taichu (now Taichung), Taiwan. 
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30 Mar 1945 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt arrived at Warm Springs, Georgia, United States. 
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30 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Pompon departed Midway Atoll for her eighth war patrol. 
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31 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Tirante sank a Japanese sail with gunfire. 
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31 Mar 1945 WW2 German forces began withdrawing from the Netherlands. 
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31 Mar 1945 WW2 As the troops of the French First Army crossed the Rhine River near Speyer, Germany, they became the first French troops to attack across the river since Napoleon Bonaparte. Meanwhile, US Third Army reached Siegen, Germany. 
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31 Mar 1945 WW2 Soviet forces crossed into the Germany border from Sopron, Hungary. 
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31 Mar 1945 WW2 Allied commander Eisenhower demanded German surrender over radio. 
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31 Mar 1945 WW2 Otto Skorzeny was ordered to go to the "Alpine Fortress". 
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31 Mar 1945 WW2 50 Japanese Army Renraku-tei special attack boats sank American landing ship LSM-12 at Okinawa, Japan. 
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31 Mar 1945 WW2 Soviet troops captured Ratibor and Katscher, Germany (now Raciborz and Kietrz, Poland). 
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31 Mar 1945 WW2 On Heinrich Himmler's orders, men led by SS-Sturmbannführer Heinz Macher attempted to use tank mines to demolish the SS castle of Schloß Wewelsburg in Büren, Germany. The attempt only damaged the southeast tower, while the rest of the castle, was damaged by fires. The 9,000 SS Ehrenring (SS Honor Rings) stored at the castle were taken away by Macher and were buried at a secret location in nearby woods. 
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31 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Sunfish departed Apra, Guam, Mariana Islands for her eleventh war patrol. 
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31 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Cero departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her seventh war patrol. 
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31 Mar 1945 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho's anti-aircraft weapons fired on attacking US aircraft at Kure, Japan. 
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31 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Spot, misidentified as a hostile submarine, was attacked by American destroyer USS Case; USS Spot did not suffer any damage by the two salvos fired. 
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31 Mar 1945 WW2 Garland completed her refitting at Devonport, England, United Kingdom. 
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01 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Cassin Young supported the invasion of Okinawa, Japan. 
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01 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Tirante attacked a Japanese landing ship with three torpedoes, but all missed. 
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01 Apr 1945 WW2 British Sub Lieutenant R. H. Reynolds's Seafire carrier fighter shot down two A6M5 Zero fighters; these were the first Seafire fighter victories against Zero fighters. 
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01 Apr 1945 WW2 US Tenth Army invaded Okinawa, Japan. Japanese aircraft launched a massive counter-attack, damaging USS West Virginia, USS Tennessee, and HMS Indefatigable, among others. 
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01 Apr 1945 WW2 US First and Ninth Armies complete the encirclement of the Ruhr industrial area at Lippstadt, cutting off the 21 divisions (about 500,000 men) of the German Army Group B. 
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01 Apr 1945 WW2 US First Army captured Paderborn and Hamm, Germany. 
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01 Apr 1945 WW2 Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front captured Wiener Neustadt, occupied Austria. 
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01 Apr 1945 WW2 American prisoners of war held at Ziegenhain, Germany were liberated by troops of the US 455th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion. 
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01 Apr 1945 WW2 US 158th Regimental Combat Team landed near Legaspi, Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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01 Apr 1945 WW2 Soviet artillery began a 6-day artillery bombardment against Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany. 
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01 Apr 1945 WW2 Allied troops captured Doetinchem, Borculo, Eibergen, and Enschede in the Netherlands. 
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01 Apr 1945 WW2 An Ohka special attack mission was launched and damaged USS West Virginia off Okinawa, Japan; on the same day, a cache of 15 Ohka aircraft was captured by the United States Marines on Okinawa, who nicknamed them baka, Japanese for "fool", as the discovery was made on April Fool's Day. 
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01 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Missouri covered the landings at Okinawa, Japan. 
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01 Apr 1945 WW2 British troops commenced Operation Roast across Lake Comacchio in northern Italy. 
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01 Apr 1945 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho entered the drydocks at Kure, Japan for repairs; the repair would be halted shortly after as the damage was judged to be too extensive. 
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01 Apr 1945 WW2 Crown Prince Yi Un was made a member of the Supreme War Council of Japan. 
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01 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Luce patrolled waters off Okinawa, Japan. 
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01 Apr 1945 WW2 RAF Takali on Malta was transferred from the Royal Air Force to the Fleet Air Arm and was renamed HMS Goldfinch. 
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01 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Tunny completed her lifeguard duties off Okinawa, Japan and set sail for US Territory of Hawaii via Midway Atoll. 
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01 Apr 1945 WW2 The 11,000-ton Japanese liner Awa Maru, given safe passage by the Americans because she had revealed that she was carrying Red Cross parcels and other aid to Allied POWs, was torpedoed and sunk by American submarine USS Queenfish in the Taiwan Strait after a breakdown in communications. Of the estimated 2,500 people on board, many of them skilled Japanese technicians, only one survived. For the only time in the war, the US Government acknowledged responsibility for wrongfully sinking an enemy ship and promised compensation after the war. Queenfish's commanding officer was court martialled for negligence, but was later exonerated based on the fact that Awa Maru was later discovered to be smuggling rubber and other war materials. 
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01 Apr 1945 WW2 Allied convoy RA-65 arrived at Loch Ewe, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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02 Apr 1945 WW2 With assistance from Bulgarian units, Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front captured the main Hungarian oil production area near Nagykanizsa. 
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02 Apr 1945 WW2 Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front captured the Hungarian industrial zone of Mosonmagyarovar. 
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02 Apr 1945 WW2 Martin Bormann ordered Germany to fight until victorious or until death. 
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02 Apr 1945 WW2 US troops landed on Sanga Sanga, Sulu, Philippine Islands without resistance; Filipino guerrilla fighters had already secured the island prior to the landing. 
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02 Apr 1945 WW2 American B-24 bombers conducted a raid on Hong Kong. 
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02 Apr 1945 WW2 American B-24 bombers conducted a raid on Marcus Island. 
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02 Apr 1945 WW2 The American Mk II and Mk IIA1 hand grenades were redesignated Mk 2 and Mk 2A1, respectively. 
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02 Apr 1945 WW2 Soviet troops captured Wiener Neustadt, Eisenstadt, Neunkirchen, and Gloggnitz in southern Germany, thus now threatening Vienna. 
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02 Apr 1945 WW2 Louis Mountbatten announced that the planning for Operation Dracula against Rangoon, Burma was to be resumed, with a target execution date of 5 May 1945 at the latest. 
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02 Apr 1945 WW2 Folke Bernadotte met Heinrich Himmler at the SS Hohenlychen sanatorium in Lychen, Germany; Himmler was unsuccessful in convincing Bernadotte to help seek a peace between Germany and the Western Allies. 
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02 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Sennet completed refitting from USS Apollo at Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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02 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Gar departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for the Mariana Islands. 
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02 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Dragonet arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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02 Apr 1945 WW2 In Japan, 100 American B-29 bombers conducted a raid on the Nakajima aircraft factory near Tokyo, while 15 B-29 bombers mined waters off Kure and Hiroshima. 
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02 Apr 1945 WW2 18 US A-20 bombers from Luzon, Philippine Islands attacked the rail marshaling yards at Shinei District (now Xinying District), Takao (now Kaohsiung), Taiwan. 
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02 Apr 1945 WW2 HMS Glory was commissioned into service. 
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03 Apr 1945 WW2 Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front penetrated the German defensive lines between Wiener Neustadt and Neusiedler Lake, advancing toward Vienna, Austria. Major Carl Szokoll, a leader of the Austrian resistance, met with Soviet authorities about cooperation in Vienna to prevent the city's destruction. 
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03 Apr 1945 WW2 General of Infantry Wilhelm Hasse replaced Walther Nehring as the commander of the German 1.Panzerarmee. 
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03 Apr 1945 WW2 British Second Army arrived at Münster, Germany while the US Ninth Army captured Recklinghausen. 
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03 Apr 1945 WW2 US First Army captured Fulda and Kassel, Germany. 
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03 Apr 1945 WW2 German rocket troops were converted to regular troops and joined the German 5th Army Corps. 
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03 Apr 1945 WW2 Allied troops captured Hengelo, the Netherlands. 
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03 Apr 1945 WW2 Special attack boats of Japanese Navy Shinyo Squadron 22 sank American gunboat LCI(G)-82 at Okinawa, Japan. 
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03 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island was struck by two or three Japanese special attack aircraft, causing damage but little casualties. 
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03 Apr 1945 WW2 The US coastal minesweeper YMS-71 struck a mine and sunk off Sanga Sanga, Borneo. 
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03 Apr 1945 WW2 US 45th Infantry Division captured Aschaffenburg, Germany. 
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03 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Sennet departed Guam, Mariana Islands for her third war patrol. 
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03 Apr 1945 WW2 Troops of British Special Boat Service and Italian 28th Garribaldi Brigade captured islands in Lake Comacchio in northern Italy. 
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03 Apr 1945 WW2 68 American B-29 bombers attacked the Koizuimi aircraft factory and the urban areas of Tokyo, Japan. 
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04 Apr 1945 WW2 German troops counterattacked Soviet forces near Moravska-Ostrava and Nitra in Czechoslovakia. Meanwhile, Soviet troops entered Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. At Kosice in the Slovak Republic, the Soviet Union set up a provisional Czechoslovakian government. 
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04 Apr 1945 WW2 British Second Army captured Osnabrück, Germany. 
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04 Apr 1945 WW2 Naval mines in the Inland Sea, Japan sank three Japanese ships. 
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04 Apr 1945 WW2 On the fourth day of the Soviet artillery bombardment, Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany lost electric power. 
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04 Apr 1945 WW2 Eduard Schallmoser, flying a Me 262 jet fighter, scored the first kill of German Jagdverband 44. The kill was accidental, however, as he unintentionally rammed an American P-38 fighter in the tail. 
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04 Apr 1945 WW2 General Dwight Eisenhower transferred the US 9th Army from Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery's 21st Army Group to General Omar Bradley's 12th Army Group, thus making Bradley the first American general to command four field armies simultaneously. 
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04 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Gabilan and her wolfpack mates detected Japanese cruiser Isuzu in the South China Sea and gave chase. She sank one of the escorting gunboats with her deck gun. 
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04 Apr 1945 WW2 German pilot Unteroffzier Eduard Schallmoser destroyed a P-38 fighter by ramming its tail. He was only able to fly his damaged fighter partly home before he had to bail out. 
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04 Apr 1945 WW2 In Germany, US Third Army eliminated resistance in Kassel, and captured Suhl and Gotha. 
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04 Apr 1945 WW2 Troops of US 89th Infantry Division captured Ohrdruf Concentration Camp in Germany, which was a satellite of Buchenwald Concentration Camp. 
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04 Apr 1945 WW2 The US 9th Army crossed the Weser River to commence a rapid advance to reach the Elbe River in Germany. 
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04 Apr 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Task Force 19.9.9, comprised of Scouting Squadron 46 (VS-46), Scouting Squadron 53 (VS-53), and Scouting Squadron 69 (VS-69) arrived on board. All major construction on the Inshore Patrol Squadron area completed, including parking mat, nose hangar, enlisted barracks, mess hall, BOQ's, and shop space. Carrier Air Group 31 (CVG-31) on board. 
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04 Apr 1945 WW2 Soviet 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts completed the capture of Hungary. 
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04 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Sterlet arrived at Midway, ending her third war patrol. 
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04 Apr 1945 WW2 USAAF A-20 aircraft based in the Philippine Islands attacked factories and rail marshalling yards at Shinchiku (now Hsinchu), Taiwan. 
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04 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Alabama departed California, United States. 
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04 Apr 1945 WW2 US Marine Corps Commandant, Lieutenant General Alexander A. Vandegrift, was promoted to the rank of general, and thus became the first Marine officer on active service to attain four-star rank. 
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05 Apr 1945 WW2 18 US Divisions began to clear the Ruhr Pocket in Germany. 
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05 Apr 1945 WW2 Soviet foreign minister Molotov informed the Japanese ambassador that the Soviet Union would not renew the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact when it would expire in 1946. 
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05 Apr 1945 WW2 Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front cut the rail line from Linz to Vienna, occupied Austria. 
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05 Apr 1945 WW2 On the fifth day of the Soviet artillery bombardmen on Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany, a break in the weather allowed Soviet aircraft to join in on the attack. By this point, German defenses could offer little opposition to enemy aircraft. 
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05 Apr 1945 WW2 Allied troops captured Almelo, the Netherlands. 
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05 Apr 1945 WW2 French First Army captured Karlsruhe, Germany. 
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05 Apr 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 31 arrived on board. 
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05 Apr 1945 WW2 British 56th Infantry Division attacked German positions near Lake Comacchio in northern Italy. 
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05 Apr 1945 WW2 Americans established an advanced air base on Iwo Jima, Japan. 
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05 Apr 1945 WW2 At 1359 hours, while at Mitajiri anchorage in Japan, battleship Yamato's commanding officer Captain Kosaku Ariga received the order to participate in a surface special attack on 7 Apr 1945. Ariga informed the crew at 1500 hours. At 1730 hours, 67 recently arrived cadets from the Naval Academy at Etajima were sent ashore. A farewell party was then held aboard Yamato, with a photographer taking portraits of officers. 
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05 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Marcus Island disembarked US Navy squadron VC-87 and embarked squadron VCO-1 while operating off Okinawa, Japan. 
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05 Apr 1945 WW2 Yukio Araki visited his home in Gunma Prefecture, Japan for the last time. 
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05 Apr 1945 WW2 The third FR Fireball prototype aircraft was destroyed in a crash over Lindbergh Field, San Diego, California, United States. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Cassin Young rescued survivors of two sunken US destroyers. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Tirante stopped a Japanese fishing boat, captured the crew of three, and sank the boat by gunfire. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Caiman arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending second war patrol. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 Yugoslavian partisans took control of Sarajevo. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 After six days of artillery and aerial bombardment on Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany, the ground offensive began. 137,000 Soviet troops of the 3rd Byelorussian Front rushed into the city, supported by 530 tanks and 2,400 aircraft. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 Soviet 3rd Byelorussian Front launched its final attack on Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 Operation Kikusui No. 1 was launched off Okinawa, Japan, participated by about 230 Japanese Navy and 125 Japanese Army special attack and escorting aircraft. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 Douglas MacArthur was named the supreme Allied commander in the Pacific. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Rock made a night time surface torpedo attack on a schooner with three torepdoes; all torpedoes missed. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Bush was sunk by a Japanese special attack off Okinawa, Japan. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island departed Okinawa, Japan. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front began attacking the suburbs of Vienna, occupied Austria. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 Joseph Goebbels announced that a German victory was to come during this month and only Adolf Hitler knew the moment. He obtained this information from astrology. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Hawkbill arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her third war patrol. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 James Johnson was promoted to the rank of group captain and was given command of the No. 125 Wing. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 Vasily Chuikov was made a Hero of the Soviet Union for the second time. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Hackleback made radio contact with the Japanese force centered around battleship Yamato; she attempted to attack by torpedoes but was driven away by escorting destroyers. She was able to report the location of the enemy fleet, however. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 Prisoners of Moringen Concentration Camp who could walk were sent on a death march toward the east; those who remained would be liberated by troops of the Western Allies three days later. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 In occupied Czechoslovakia, International Red Cross representatives visited the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 US Lieutenant John G. Winant, son of the US ambassador to Britain, captured after his aircraft was shot down over München (Munich), Germany, was transferred to the Oflag IV-C prisoner of war camp at Colditz Castle in Germany. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 Adolf Hitler read Wilhelm Canaris' diary in which Hitler he learned of Canaris' involvement in anti-Nazi activities. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 15,000 prisoners of Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Germany were evacuated by German authorities. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 Walter Dornberger moved his headquarters from Bad Sachsa to Haus Ingeborg in Oberjoch in the Allgäu mountains in southern Germany. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Station commemorated its 3rd anniversary. Bagley outdoor theater commissioned this date. Guests included Admiral Bagley, Gov Stainback of the Territory of Hawaii, Brig General LWT Waller, Jr., USMC, and Commodore BL Austen. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 Allied Operation Grapeshot was ordered to commence in northern Italy. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 The sick and the older sailors aboard Yamato were disembarked at Mitajiri anchorage in Japan before the battleship departed for Operation Ten-Go. She passed through the Bungo Channel between Shikoku and Kyushu at 1830 hours, sailing west and then turning south at 2100 hours to avoid American submarine USS Threadfin. Meanwhile, USS Threadfin continued to follow Yamato's position though unable to attack. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 On the Island of Texel off the Dutch coast, the Georgian troops serving as volunteers with the German army mutinied. Some 246 German troops were killed in their sleep by the Georgians (most of whom had originally been captured on the Eastern Front) and battle broke out which eventually results in 800 Germans, 500 Georgian and 117 Texel civilian fatalities. The fighting ended only when the Canadians arrived on 20 May 1945, two weeks after the end of the European war. 
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07 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Tirante torpedoed a Japanese cargo freighter, surfaced, and observed two survivors clinging to debris. She was initially credited with the kill, but it failed to be confirmed after studying Japanese records post-war. 
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07 Apr 1945 WW2 German Armeegruppe E completed its evacuation of Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. 
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07 Apr 1945 WW2 In Germany, US First Army captured Göttingen and US Ninth Army captured Eisenach and Hameln. 
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07 Apr 1945 WW2 General Schörner's German Armeegruppe Mitte attacked the Soviet 2nd and 4th Ukrainian Fronts in Czechoslovakia. 
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07 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Hancock, USS Maryland, and 4 destroyers were damaged by Japanese special attack aircraft. 
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07 Apr 1945 WW2 German jets were deployed to intercept heavy bombers of the Western Allies. 
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07 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Charr sank Japanese cruiser Isuzu, which had just been damaged by a torpedo from USS Gabilan, with three hits out of five torpedoes fired. 
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07 Apr 1945 WW2 The US coastal minesweeper YMS-103 was damaged by a mine off Okinawa, Japan. 
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07 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Cabrilla fired 3 torpedoes at a Japanese transport off northern Japan; all torpedoes missed. 
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07 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Gabilan sank the already-damaged Japanese cruiser Isuzu, which she and her wolfpack mates had been chasing since 4 Apr 1945, in the South China Sea, hitting her with 1 of 6 torpedoes fired. 
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07 Apr 1945 WW2 Hauptmann Oskar Dettke and Oberleutnant Heinrich Südel of the German Kampfgeschwader 55 wing were awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. 
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07 Apr 1945 WW2 Anglo-Indian troops attacked Yindaw, which was 20 kilometers south of Meiktila, Burma. It was stubbornly defended by 1,000 Japanese troops which repeatedly repulsed assaults over the next few days. William Slim would ultimately order the town bypassed, leaving it for the mop-up phase later. 
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07 Apr 1945 WW2 Hikosaburo Hata was named the chief of staff of Otozo Yamada (Japanese Kwantung Army in northeastern China). 
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07 Apr 1945 WW2 German forces at Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany attempted a counterattack. Although it inflicted heavy casualties on the Soviets, it ultimately failed. 
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07 Apr 1945 WW2 Wilhelm Canaris was sentenced to death by a special SS tribunal. 
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07 Apr 1945 WW2 In a last ditch operation by the so-called Sonderkommando Elbe, set up by the fanatical Oberst Otto Köhnke, the pilots of 183 Fw 190 and Bf 109K aircraft flying to the strains of martial music played over the radio were ordered to deliberately ram American B-17 bombers. How many actually did so remained a mystery but 137 of the German aircraft were lost with the loss 70 pilots killed. Only eight US heavy bombers were brought down. 
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07 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Sargent Bay departed Okinawa. 
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07 Apr 1945 WW2 101 American B-29 bombers attacked the Nakajima aircraft factory near Tokyo, Japan; this was the first B-29 mission to be escorted by P-51 fighters from Iwo Jima. 
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07 Apr 1945 WW2 Kantaro Suzuki was named the 42nd Prime Minister of Japan. 
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07 Apr 1945 WW2 Lieutenant General Yoshio Kozuki was named the commanding officer of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea, relieving Seishiro Itagaki. 
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07 Apr 1945 WW2 Kosaku Ariga, commanding officer of battleship Yamato, went down with the ship as the battleship sank. 
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07 Apr 1945 WW2 While enroute to attack the US fleets off Okinawa, Japan, battleship Yamato was attacked by US carrier aircraft resulting in her loss, along with several of her escorts. 
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07 Apr 1945 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze rescued survivors of battleship Yamato and destroyer Isokaze; she suffered minor damage from American air attacks during the action (3 were killed, 15 were wounded). 
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07 Apr 1945 WW2 While at Warm Springs, Georgia, United States, Franklin Roosevelt had a brief telephone conversation with his wife Eleanor Roosevelt, who was at the family estate at Hyde Park, New York, United States. 
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08 Apr 1945 WW2 Prinz Eugen set sail for Copenhagen, Denmark. 
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08 Apr 1945 WW2 SS judge Otto Thorbeck sentenced Dietrich Bonhoeffer to death for conspiracy against the German state. 
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08 Apr 1945 WW2 A British SAS brigade was dropped into eastern Netherlands as an advance force for Canadian units moving north. 
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08 Apr 1945 WW2 British Second Army captured Hildesheim in central Germany. 
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08 Apr 1945 WW2 Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front continued its advance into northern Czechoslovakia. 
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08 Apr 1945 WW2 Defensive forts number 5 and 8 at Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany surrendered to Soviet forces. German forces attempted another counterattack, but it failed at the face of Soviet air superiority. On this date, Soviet aircraft dropped 1,500 tons of bombs on Königsberg. 
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08 Apr 1945 WW2 Two destroyers were damaged by Japanese special attack boats and aircraft off Okinawa, Japan. 
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08 Apr 1945 WW2 In northern Italy, British Army SAS Major Anders Lassen and 19 men were tasked with creating a diversion at Lake Comacchio. The Dane, who joined the British forces after the fall of Denmark and had already won the Military Medal three times in commando operations, destroyed three enemy strong-points before being fatally wounded. As his men withdrew, he refused aid, knowing that he would only slow them down and endanger their escape. His body was later found and buried by partisans. The fighting Dane was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross, the only non-British Commonwealth soldier to win the medal during the war. 
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08 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Snook reported her position to USS Tigrone east of the island of Taiwan, China. 
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08 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Sea Robin sank two small Japanese fishing vessels in the South China Sea with her deck gun and took on 3 survivors. 
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08 Apr 1945 WW2 The US coastal minesweeper YMS-103 was beached and abandoned after suffering fatal damage from a mine on the previous day off the coast of Okinawa, Japan. 
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08 Apr 1945 WW2 Soviet troops gained control of the main railway station in Vienna, Ostmark, Germany and surrounded the city. 
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08 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Seahorse sank a small Japanese vessel with gunfire off Japan. 
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08 Apr 1945 WW2 Troops of the US 3rd Army discovered a hidden cache of gold, art, and other treasures in the Merkers salt mine near Mülhausen, Germany. 
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08 Apr 1945 WW2 US Seventh Army takes Pforzheim in southwestern Germany. 
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08 Apr 1945 WW2 British troops attacked the area between the southern tip of Lake Comacchio and the Fossa di Navigazione, known as 'The Wedge', in northern Italy. 
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08 Apr 1945 WW2 B-25 bombers of 3rd Bombardment Group of USAAF 5th Air Force attacked the butanol plant at Kagi, Taiwan. 
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09 Apr 1945 WW2 Hans von Dohnanyi passed away. 
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09 Apr 1945 WW2 Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed. 
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09 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Tirante sank Japanese troop transport Nikko Maru and damaged Japanese coastal defense vessel No. 102; the latter was later towed back to port by transport Kiyokawa Maru. 
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09 Apr 1945 WW2 Allies launched 1,200 bombers to raid 10 German jet airfields and oil storage facilities. 
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09 Apr 1945 WW2 General Otto Lasch surrendered the city of Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany to the Soviet forces. The surrender caused a massive panic among the civilians of the city. As the roads were crowded with refugees, Soviet forces attacked, killing many civilians. Fighting ceased by midnight as Soviet forces eliminated all remaining German resistance. 80% to 90% of the city lay in ruin by this time. 
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09 Apr 1945 WW2 German Armeegruppe E was now completely cut off, but continued to fight against Yugoslavian partisans. 
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09 Apr 1945 WW2 Moringen Concentration Camp was liberated by Allied troops. 
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09 Apr 1945 WW2 The Liberty ship Charles Henderson, loaded with aircraft bombs, blew up in Bari harbour in Italy, killing 360 and injuring 1,730. 
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09 Apr 1945 WW2 Rifleman Ali Haidar took out two gun positions at Fusignano, Italy, being wounded on each occasion. But his actions enabled the advance to continue across the Senjo River and earned him the Victoria Cross. 
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09 Apr 1945 WW2 During the crossing of the Senjo River Indian Private Namdeo Jadhav carried two wounded comrades under heavy fire through deep water and across a minefield. He then recrossed the river, destroyed three machine gun posts and directed other companies safely across, thereby securing a bridgehead. His extraordinary conduct would earn him the Victoria Cross. 
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09 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Snook failed to respond to a message sent by USS Tigrone. 
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09 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Sea Robin took on 10 survivors of a sinking Japanese trawler damaged by Allied aircraft in the South China Sea. 
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09 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Guitarro departed Fremantle, Australia for her fifth and final war patrol. 
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09 Apr 1945 WW2 Soviet troops began assaulting the central region of Vienna, Ostmark, Germany. 
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09 Apr 1945 WW2 The German Kampfgeschwader 55 wing was disbanded. 
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09 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Parche fired 7 torpedoes at a Japanese Minesweeper No. 3 and a transport off Kobe, Japan, damaging the minesweeper with 1 hit. 
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09 Apr 1945 WW2 Wilhelm Canaris was executed by hanging by piano wire at the Flossenbürg concentration camp in Flossenbürg, southern Germany. 
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09 Apr 1945 WW2 Fähnrich Hans Guido Mutke, flying a Me 262 jet fighter, claimed to have reached supersonic speed while diving on a P-51 fighter. This claim would be disputed by most. 
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09 Apr 1945 WW2 In the early afternoon, 825 Allied heavy bombers and 1,000 other aircraft dropped bombs behind the Senio River in northern Italy. Between 1520 and 1910 hours, 1,500 artillery pieces bombarded German positions five times. At dusk, New Zealand, Indian, and Polish troops attacked. 
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09 Apr 1945 WW2 The Japanese Navy scored a notable success against the Americans when a large Shinyo Motor Boat packed with explosives charged out of Naha harbour, Okinawa, Japan to ram the USS Charles J. Badger putting the destroyer out of the war with both engines utterly unserviceable. A landing-craft was sunk on the same night and, from the fringes of the destroyer screen, came a report of swimmers armed with hand-grenades, although whether these were, in fact, Fukuryu ("Crawling Dragons") suicide-frogmen still remained uncertain. 
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09 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Sunfish damaged a Japanese ship off Mutsu harbor (Ominato Guard District naval base), Japan, hitting her with 1 of 4 torpedoes fired. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 American bombers conducted a raid on Japanese positions in the Kurile Islands. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 1,224 Allied heavy bombers were dispatched to attack German aircraft facilities; about 60 German jets were launched to intercept. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 German 6.SS-Panzerarmee defended against strong Soviet attacks against Wiener Neustadt and Baden in occupied Austria. Meanwhile, heavy fighting continued in the central districts of Vienna. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 Canadian First Army captured Deventer, the Netherlands. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 In Germany, British Second Army captured Wildenhausen and US Ninth Army captured Hannover. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 Prime Minister Churchill announced that, to date, Britain suffered 1,126,802 total casualties. Of the 306,984 killed, 34,161 were from the merchant navy and 59,793 were civilian. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 In the Philippine Islands, US troops captured Jolo in Sulu and Lamon Bay at Luzon. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 General Walther Wenck was named the commanding officer of the German 12th Army. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Charr sank a Japanese freighter with her deck gun in the Java Sea. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 Wilkinson Sword Limited's contract for producing Fairbairn-Sykes commando daggers ended. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Mingo arrived in the Mariana Islands, ending her seventh war patrol. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 A reconnaissance flight over Scotland, United Kingdom by an Arado jet was the last operational sortie over Britain by a Luftwaffe aircraft. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 Otto Skorzeny visited Field Marshal Ferdinand Schörner's headquarters in Silesia in occupied Poland. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island arrived at Apra Harbor, Guam, Mariana Islands for repairs. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 Adolf Hitler sent his servants ahead of him to Berchtesgaden, Germany to prepare for his arrival scheduled for 20 Apr 1945. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 Adolf Galland met Hermann Göring for the last time at Obersalzberg in München-Oberbayern, Germany. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Alabama arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 New Zealand troops reached Santerno River in northern Italy. After sundown, British V Corps launched Operation Impact Plain toward Argenta, Italy. 850 heavy bombers and 700 medium bombers were used to support the Allied attacks that took place on this day. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 Ten Seiran seaplanes performed a practice flight over Fukuyama, Japan to familiarize the crews with flights over densely populated areas in case they were to receive an order to attack US cities. After the exercise, Second Lieutenant Ichiyoshi's aircraft crashed on water landing; Ichiyoshi was killed, and the observer survived the crash. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 US B-24 bombers based in the Philippine Islands attacked the town of Koshun, Takao Prefecture, Taiwan. 
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10 Apr 1945 RELIGIOUS U.S. Armed forces liberated the prison camp at Buchenwald, Germany. It was estimated that nearly 57,000 prisoners (mostly Jews) perished in the gas chambers of Buchenwald during its eight-year existence as a Nazi concentration camp.
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11 Apr 1945 WW2 British Second Army captured Celle, Germany. 
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11 Apr 1945 WW2 The Soviet 4th Guards Army attacked the canals over the Danube River in Vienna, Ostmark, Germany. Nearby, Soviet 20th Guards Rifle Corps and 1st Mechanized Corps attacked the Reichsbrücke Bridge but failing to take it. After observing the fighting on the front lines in the district of Florisdorf, Otto Skorzeny concluded that Vienna was to fall within a day. 
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11 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Missouri, USS Enterprise, USS Essex, and 6 destroyers were damaged by Japanese special attack aircraft off Okinawa, Japan. 
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11 Apr 1945 WW2 American troops captured an intact V-weapon plant in Nordhausen, Germany; top American leadership soon sent in engineers to remove as much equipment as possible ahead of the arrival of Soviet troops. 
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11 Apr 1945 WW2 Soviet troops reached the Elbe River near Magdeburg, Germany. 
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11 Apr 1945 WW2 A Japanese special attack aircraft crashed into the starboard side of USS Missouri, causing minor damage. The remains of the Japanese pilot was given a sea burial with military honors. 
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11 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Gabilan fired four torpedoes at a convoy of small Japanese ships in the South China Sea; all torpedoes missed. 
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11 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Parche sank a small Japanese freighter off Japan with her deck gun. 
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11 Apr 1945 WW2 Harry Dimoline was reverted to the rank of colonel. 
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11 Apr 1945 WW2 Anglo-Indian troops captured Pyabwe, Burma at dawn; 2,000 dead Japanese bodies were counted in the region after the fierce battle. To the southwest, mechanized Anglo-Indian troops reached the Taungdwingyi area. 
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11 Apr 1945 WW2 Naoto Kohiyama stepped down as the President of the South Manchuria Railway. 
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11 Apr 1945 WW2 US Third Army captured Weimar, Germany and US Seventh Army reached Schweinfurt. 
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11 Apr 1945 WW2 US Ninth Army captured Bochum, Essen, and Goslar, Germany. 
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11 Apr 1945 WW2 Prisoners of Buchenwald Concentration Camp freed themselves after most of the guards had fled. In the Buchenwald satellite camp of Langenstein, the US 83rd Infantry Division arrived; it had about 1,100 prisoners at the time. 
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11 Apr 1945 WW2 New Zealand and Polish troops crossed Santerno River in northern Italy. 
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11 Apr 1945 WW2 I-401 departed Kure, Japan for Dalian, China; she was tasked to bring fuel back to Kure, whose stores were becoming depleted. 
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11 Apr 1945 WW2 The Toroku Prisoners of War Camp in central Taiwan was closed. 
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12 Apr 1945 WW2 A Japanese aircraft crashed into the foremast of USS Cassin Young, killing one and wounding one. 
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12 Apr 1945 WW2 Allied troops captured Westerbork, Brummen, and Deventer in the Netherlands. US Third Army captured Erfurt, Germany. Meanwhile, US Ninth Army captured Braunschweig after crossing the Elbe River. 
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12 Apr 1945 WW2 German forces evacuated Zenica, Yugoslavia. 
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12 Apr 1945 WW2 Operation Kikusui No. 2 was launched off Okinawa, Japan, participated by about 125 Japanese Navy and 60 Japanese Army special attack and escorting aircraft. Destroyer USS Mannert L. Abele was sunk by a Japanese Ohka piloted bomb off Okinawa; she was the first to be struck by an Ohka bomb and was the only to be sunk by one. 
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12 Apr 1945 WW2 An order was sent by radio to USS Snook to take lifeguard station off the Sakishima Islands, Ryukyu Islands, Japan; she failed to respond. 
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12 Apr 1945 WW2 En route to Dalian, China, I-401 detonated a magnetic mine at 0850 hours, rupturing the fuel tank and damaging a Kingston valve. She turned around to return to Kure, Japan for repairs. 
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12 Apr 1945 WW2 Heinrich Himmler ordered that commanders who failed to hold key positions in the defense of Germany would be executed. 
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12 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Chub was attacked by a Japanese aircraft, sustaining temporary loss of power and depth control. 
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12 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Parche sank a Japanese transport off Japan, hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes fired. 
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12 Apr 1945 WW2 American troops began arriving at Buchenwald Concentration Camp near Weimar, Germany. 
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12 Apr 1945 WW2 In southwestern Germany, French troops captured Baden-Baden and US troops captured Heilbronn. 
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12 Apr 1945 WW2 Oberstleutnant Gerhard Prawitt, the commandant of the Oflag IV-C prisoner of war camp at Colditz Castle in Germany, received an unsigned letter from the office of Heinrich Himmler stating that all important prisoners at Colditz were to be prepared for transfer in the following morning where they would be held as hostages for negotiations with the western Allies. 
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12 Apr 1945 WW2 Indian 8th Division crossed Santerno River in northern Italy. German 15th Panzergrenadier Regiment arrived in the Reno River area as reinforcement. 
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12 Apr 1945 WW2 The Westerbork Concentration Camp at Hooghalen in the Netherlands was liberated by the Canadian 2nd Infantry Division. 
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12 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Bergall fired a torpedo at a Japanese patrol vessel in the South China Sea; the torpedo missed. 
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12 Apr 1945 WW2 Avenger aircraft from HMS Victorious attacked Matsuyama Airfield in Taihoku (now Taipei) and shipping off Tamsui in northern Taiwan; Sub-Lieutenant Daniel McAleese was shot down, rescued, but would later die of his wounds. 
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12 Apr 1945 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt passed away of cerebral hemorrhage after complaining of acute headache during a portrait painting session with artist Elizabeth Shoumatoff at Warm Springs, Georgia, United States. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 Chile declared war on Japan. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 Troops of the US Ninth Army finished clearing the Duisberg Pocket in Germany. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 9 Japanese balloons were shot down over the western Aleutian Islands in the North Pacific. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 The Soviet Danube Flotilla landed men of the 80th Guards Rifle Division and 7th Guards Airborne Division on both sides of the Reichsbrücke Bridge in Vienna, Ostmark, Germany, securing it. Later on the same day, Soviet troops secured the Essling district of Vienna while the Danube Flotilla delivered more men near Klosterneuburg 15 kilometers up the river. By the end of the day, German resistance in Vienna, broken up in several pockets, ceased to be effective. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment of the British 49th Division, attached to the Canadian Army, liberated Arnhem in the Netherlands, scene of the Market-Garden battle of the previous year. Attacking the town in flanking movement from the east across the River Ijssel rather than the Rhine, the fighting was no less bitter, but the Lincolns achieved their objective and took 234 prisoners at a cost of five men killed and 49 wounded. Elsewhere in the Netherlands, Allied troops captured Assen, Diepenveen, and Olst. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 German SS and Luftwaffe troops, while fleeing Allied advance with 1,016 political and military prisoners, deemed the prisoners too weak to continue marching. The prisoners were locked them inside a barn near Gardelegen, Saxony, Germany, which was then set afire, killing all of them. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Sennet attacked a Japanese patrol boat south of Japan; the single torpedo missed. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Parche damaged a Japanaese fishing trawler and a small boat with her deck gun east of Kamaichi, Japan; as two Japanese aircraft closed in on a counterattack, Parche dove in a hurry, causing her ammunition to detonate, though causing little damage. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 Dwight Eisenhower rejected the notion, for the third time, to advance onto Berlin, Germany. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 A group of prominent prisoners of war were transferred out of the Oflag IV-C camp at Colditz Castle in Germany for the camp at Laufen in southern Germany on the orders of Heinrich Himmler. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 Josias was arrested by Allied authorities. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 British 78th Infantry Division secured a bridgehead at Bastia in northern Italy, across the Santerno River. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 Italian commandos infiltrated Ancona, Italy by sea, but they were all captured before they did any damage. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 More than 300 American B-29 bombers attacked various targets in and near Tokyo, Japan. The smaller of the two cyclotrons at the Riken Institute was destroyed. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Bergall fired two torpedoes at a Japanese patrol vessel in the South China Sea; both torpedoes missed. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 Avenger aircraft from HMS Victorious attacked Matsuyama Arifield in Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan, damaging runways, and barracks; one ammunition dump or oil storage tank exploded. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 Avenger aircraft from HMS Victorious, en route back to the carrier after attacking Matsuyama Airfield in Taihoku (now Taipei), strafed 12 aircraft on the ground at Giran Airfield in northeastern Taiwan; actual damage caused by the strafing was unknown. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 Avenger aircraft from HMS Victorious attacked Shinchiku Airfield in Taiwan, causing unknown damage to the runways. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Wasp arrived at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, United States. 
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14 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Tirante sank Japanese cargo ship Juzan Maru and her two escort vessels. 
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14 Apr 1945 WW2 George Patton was promoted to the permanent rank of general. 
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14 Apr 1945 WW2 The Ruhr Pocket was cut in two near Hagen, Germany. 
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14 Apr 1945 WW2 Former Chancellor Franz von Papen and three German generals were captured in a raid by American gliderborne troops led by Lieutenant James Watson. 
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14 Apr 1945 WW2 French troops began their final assault on Bordeaux, France. 
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14 Apr 1945 WW2 Canadian forces assumed military control in the Netherlands, minding those German forces still holed up in Atlantikwall fortifications. Arnhem and Zwolle were captured by the Canadians on this date. 
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14 Apr 1945 WW2 British Second Army reached Bremen, Germany. 
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14 Apr 1945 WW2 Japanese special attack aircraft damaged a battleship and two destroyers off Okinawa, Japan. 
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14 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Charr began laying naval mines off Pulo Island, Vietnam. 
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14 Apr 1945 WW2 Seven G4M bombers approached American ships off Okinawa, but all were shot down before they were able to launch their Ohka payloads. 
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14 Apr 1945 WW2 General Dwight Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander in North West Europe, announced that Berlin, Germany was no longer a military objective. 
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14 Apr 1945 WW2 The Soviet Union's top propagandist, Ilya Ehrenburg, was formally reprimanded, in an unprecedented editorial in the Soviet military newspaper Red Star, by his chief, Alexandrov, for broadcasting and distributing leaflets that encourage Red Army soldiers to commit atrocities against German civilians. 
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14 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Sennet attacked a Japanese patrol boat south of Japan; the single torpedo missed. 
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14 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Gabilan sank a Japanese freighters in the South China Sea in the morning, hitting her with 2 of 4 torpedoes fired. In the evening, she sank another freight in the same area, hitting her with all 4 torpedoes fired. 
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14 Apr 1945 WW2 Anglo-Indian troops captured Taungdwingyi, Burma. 
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14 Apr 1945 WW2 On this day and the next, 423 Danish Jews were transferred from the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in occupied Czechoslovakia back to their home country via trucks hired by the Swedish Red Cross. 
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14 Apr 1945 WW2 Lorraine began a week-long bombardment of German positions in the Gironde estuary in western France between La Rochelle and Bordeaux. 
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14 Apr 1945 WW2 In Germany, US Third Army captured Bayreuth and Gera. 
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14 Apr 1945 WW2 As Allied troops advanced, Heinrich Himmler ordered all prisoners at Dachau Concentration Camp in southern Germany be exterminated. 
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14 Apr 1945 WW2 US 102nd Infantry Division captured Gardelegen, Germany. 
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14 Apr 1945 WW2 The underground aircraft factory at Tarthun south of Magdeburg, Germany, which produced He 162 jet fighters among other weapons, was discovered by Private 1st ClassJames Prenger and Warrant Officer Joseph Crocker. 
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14 Apr 1945 WW2 Captain Clayton Kelly Gross led 8 P-51 fighters on a fighter sweep over the Bad Hersfeld-Mühlhausen-Weimar region in central Germany. The Americans shot down the Me 262 jet fighter flown by Kurt Lobgesong of German Jagdgeschwader 7 wing; Lobgesong would survive the engagement. 
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14 Apr 1945 WW2 Jürgen Stroop met with Heinrich Himmler in Himmler's private train near Prenzlau, Germany, proclaiming that he would lead Werwolf resistance groups with total loyalty after the end of the war. 
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14 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Tunny arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her eighth war patrol. 
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14 Apr 1945 WW2 British advances in northern Italy were held up at Bastia and the Fossa Marina canal, frustrated by the German 15th Panzergrenadier Regiment. On the same day, after a heavy aerial and artillery bombardment, US IV Corps began to attack on the western end of the German line. German 29th Panzergrenadier Division arrived in the Reno River area as reinforcement; earlier in the day, Adolf Hitler had rejected a request to withdraw German forces north of the Po River. 
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14 Apr 1945 WW2 I-400 departed Kure, Japan for Dalian, China, disguised as a frigate complete with dummy naval guns and machine guns. She was tasked with bringing back fuel from the Dalian storage tanks. 
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14 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Spot sank two Japanese trawlers with her deck gun in the East China Sea. 
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14 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Sunfish fired three torpedoes at a Japanese ship off Japan; all three torpedoes missed. 
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14 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Hoe entered Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States for overhaul. 
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15 Apr 1945 WW2 Allied troops captured Zutphen, Leeuwarden, and Zoutkamp in the Netherlands. 
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15 Apr 1945 WW2 US First Army captured Leuna and Merseburg, Germany. 
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15 Apr 1945 WW2 In Czechoslovakia, Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front assaulted toward the Mührisch-Ostrau industrial region of Moravia, while Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front moved towards Brno. 
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15 Apr 1945 WW2 USAAF bombers dropped napalm bombs on the German stronghold in Royan, France. 
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15 Apr 1945 WW2 German ships evacuated 20,000 people from East Prussia, Germany. 
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15 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Charr completed minelaying off Pulo Island, Vietnam. 
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15 Apr 1945 WW2 Troops of F Company, 2nd Battalion, 405th Regiment, US 102nd Infantry Division discovered the aftermath of the massacre committed by German SS and Luftwaffe troops two days prior near Gardelegen, Saxony, Germany. 
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15 Apr 1945 WW2 Operation Kikusui No. 3 was launched off Okinawa, Japan, participated by about 120 Japanese Navy and 45 Japanese Army special attack and escorting aircraft. 
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15 Apr 1945 WW2 About 200 aircraft of the US 14th Air Force attacked Japanese targets across a large area of eastern China, targeting bridges, river traffic, railroads, gun positions, warehouses, and troop concentrations. 
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15 Apr 1945 WW2 Field Marshal Model, Commander-in-Chief of German Army Group B, ordered all young soldiers and old soldiers to be discharged from the army. As civilians they were to make their own way home. 
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15 Apr 1945 WW2 Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front advanced toward Graz in occupied Austria. 
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15 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Iowa arrived at Okinawa, Japan. 
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15 Apr 1945 WW2 Pierre Barjot was promoted to the rank of counter admiral. 
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15 Apr 1945 WW2 French First Army captured Kehl and Offenburg, Germany. On the same day, Dwight Eisenhower ordered US 3rd Army under George Patton and US 6th Army Group under Jacob Devers to make a thrust toward Austria. 
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15 Apr 1945 WW2 British troops liberated Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in Germany, which had about 40,000 prisoners at the time. 
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15 Apr 1945 WW2 Eva Braun arrived in Berlin, Germany. 
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15 Apr 1945 WW2 Oberstleutnant Gerhard Prawitt, the commandant of the Oflag IV-C prisoner of war camp at Colditz Castle in Germany, received the order to transfer the prisoners in his charge toward the east. As he moved to carry out the order, the prisoners refused to cooperate as they knew the European War was coming to an end. By the evening, as US 9th Armored Division neared Colditz, SS guards began to flee without orders. 
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15 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Capitaine arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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15 Apr 1945 WW2 US II Corps advanced toward Bologna, Italy in two columns along Highway 64 and Highway 65. British troops launched another attack across the Fossa Marina canal east of Argenta, Italy. 
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15 Apr 1945 WW2 American carrier aircraft struck Japanese airfields in southern Kyushu, Japan while 300 US Army B-29 bombers conducted raids on Kawasaki and Tokyo. 
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15 Apr 1945 WW2 Rear Admiral Haruo Katsuta was named the chief of staff of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea. 
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15 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Shamrock Bay launched four FM-2 Wildcat fighters, which shot down six Japanese aircraft 50 miles north of Okinawa, Japan; some of the six aircraft might have been special attack aircraft aiming for destroyer USS Laffey. 
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15 Apr 1945 WW2 At a conference in Moscow, Russia to discuss the war in the Far East, Joseph Stalin told Ambassador Averell Harriman that the forthcoming Soviet offensive will be aimed at Dresden, not Berlin, as he had already told Dwight Eisenhower. 
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15 Apr 1945 WW2 US B-24 bombers based in the Philippine Islands struck Shinchiku Airfield (now Hsinchu), Taiwan. 
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16 Apr 1945 WW2 From their positions on the Oder-Neisse Line, Soviet 1st Byelorussian and Soviet 1st Ukrainian Fronts began their final push on Berlin, Germany. Hitler's order of the day dated on the previous day was released to all German troops, ordering all who would flee in the face of the Soviet attack to be arrested or shot. 
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16 Apr 1945 WW2 Canadian troops captured Harlingen, Groningen, and Leeuwarden in the Netherlands. 
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16 Apr 1945 WW2 US Army troops landed on Ie Shima off Okinawa, Japan. Meanwhile, Japanese special attack aircraft sank a destroyer and damaged a number of other warships. 
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16 Apr 1945 WW2 Soviet submarine L-3 sank German passenger liner Goya with a torpedo, killing 6,220 people being evacuated from East Prussia, Germany, most of whom were civilian refugees. 
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16 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Charr fired 10 torpedoes at a Japanese freighter, none of which hit. 
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16 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Kete was presumed lost. 
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16 Apr 1945 WW2 The Allied Chiefs of Staff formally decreed the ending of the area bombing campaign against Germany. In one of British Bomber Command's last major operations of the war, 900 bombers were despatched to attack the German island fortress of Helgoland. 
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16 Apr 1945 WW2 The Japanese Navy launched an Ohka combat sortie off Okinawa by six G4M bombers that resulted in failure. 
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16 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Sennet was attacked by Japanese patrol boats off Miki Saki, Mie Prefecture, Japan. 
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16 Apr 1945 WW2 Oberfeldwebel Karl Schäfer of the German Kampfgeschwader 55 wing was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. 
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16 Apr 1945 WW2 The Soviet Union stopped the mass deportation of German males for use as forced laborers in the territories occupied by Soviet troops. 
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16 Apr 1945 WW2 Indian 5th Division captured Shwemyo, Burma during the day, while by nightfall the Anglo-Indian 4th Corps reached within 240 miles of Rangoon. 
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16 Apr 1945 WW2 US First Army captured Solingen and Wuppertal, Germany. 
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16 Apr 1945 WW2 Eighteen British Lancaster bombers of No. 617 Squadron RAF attacked the German heavy cruiser Lützow at Swinemünde, Germany (now Swinoujscie, Poland). All but two of the aircraft were hit, although only one was lost (becoming No. 617 Squadron's last loss of the war). A near miss by a "Tallboy" 12,000-lb bomb tore a large hole in the bottom of the Lützow, crippling her. 
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16 Apr 1945 WW2 US troops reached the outskirts of Nürnberg, Germany. 
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16 Apr 1945 WW2 US 9th Armored Division liberated the prisoners at the Oflag IV-C camp at the "escape-proof" Colditz Castle in Germany. US Private First Class Alan Murphey received the formal surrender from German Hauptmann Eggers at the courtyard of the castle. Throughout the war, 316 POWs attempted escapes from the castle with 32 making "home runs", which was the most of any camp. 
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16 Apr 1945 WW2 British troops crossed the Fossa Marina canal east of Argenta, Italy. 
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16 Apr 1945 WW2 Submarine I-369 departed Yokosuka, Japan for Caroline Islands. She carried 0.312 tons of food, 6.303 tons of weapons and ammunition, 25 tons of fuel, and 4.4 tons of other cargo for Truk, and 38.9 tons of food and 2.6 tons of other cargo for Woleai. 
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16 Apr 1945 WW2 Italian motor torpedo boats heavily damaged French destroyer Trombe in the Mediterranean Sea. 
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16 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Sunfish sank Japanese transport Manryu Maru and Coast Defense Vessel No. 73 off Miyako, Japan, hitting them with 4 of 6 torpedoes fired. 
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16 Apr 1945 WW2 US B-24 and P-51 aircraft attacked Matsuyama Airfield in Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan. 
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16 Apr 1945 WW2 Allied convoy JW-66 departed Clyde, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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17 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Cod sank a Japanese tug and its tow in the East China Sea with the deck gun and went on to rescue three of the survivors. 
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17 Apr 1945 WW2 Even as Soviet 1st Byelorussian Front met unexpectedly fierce resistance along the Seelow Heights, Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front broke through to Berlin, Germany. 
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17 Apr 1945 WW2 Allied troops captured Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. 
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17 Apr 1945 WW2 A Japanese Type 97 tank and a Type 95 tank, with explosives strapped in the front of the hulls, ambushed M4 Sherman tanks on Route 9 on Luzon, Philippine Islands near Baguio. They rammed the American tanks, but the explosives failed to detonate. 
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17 Apr 1945 WW2 German Oberleutnant August Lambert, the newly appointed Staffelkapitän of 8/SG 77, was killed when his fighter-bomber mission was bounced by a horde of with US P-51 Mustang fighters (reportedly 60-80 strong). At the time of his death Lambert had 116 aerial victories against the Soviets and had destroyed hundreds of enemy tanks, trucks and artillery pieces. Six of his pilots suffered the same fate. 
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17 Apr 1945 WW2 Field Marshal Model gave his remaining troops the choice of trying to get home, of trying to fight their way out of the Ruhr region in Germany, or of surrendering. Most chose to surrender. 
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17 Apr 1945 WW2 Oberleutnant August Lambert, the newly appointed Staffelkapitän of German 8/SG 77, was killed when his fighter-bomber mission was bounced by a horde of with US P-51 Mustang fighters (reportedly 60-80 strong). At the time of his death Lambert had 116 aerial victories against the Soviets and had destroyed hundreds of enemy tanks, trucks and artillery pieces. Six of his pilots suffered the same fate. 
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17 Apr 1945 WW2 Thirty three British Lancaster bombers of 5 Group, six carrying Grand Slam bombs and the remainder carrying Tall Boy bombs attacked Helgoland, Germany; they reported that the centre of the island was still ablaze from the previous day's attack. 
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17 Apr 1945 WW2 Robert von Greim was awarded the Combined Pilots-Observation Badge in Gold with Diamonds. 
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17 Apr 1945 WW2 US troops captured the rail marshaling yard and airport of Nürnberg, Germany. 
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17 Apr 1945 WW2 In Italy, Brazilian troops captured Montese. The British bridgehead at the Fossa Marina canal near Argenta, Italy was expanded by about 900 meters. 
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17 Apr 1945 WW2 German resistance in the Netherlands was effectively ended with the surrender of the Apeldoorn garrison. The Germans had intended to make a stand along the canal, but the Canadians sent the 5th Armoured Division up from Arnhem to surround the town. After this the remaining German garrisons along the Grebbe Line followed suit and by 19 Apr fighting was almost finished allowing food supplies to be sent forward for the starving Dutch population. 
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17 Apr 1945 WW2 Lavrentiy Beria reported to Joseph Stalin that a total of 215,540 people (138,200 Germans, 38,660 Polish, and the remainder Soviet citizens) were arrested by the NKVD, NKGB, and SMERSH since Beria gained influence over all three agencies in Jan 1945. 
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18 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Sargent Bay arrived in Okinawa. 
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18 Apr 1945 WW2 Ernie Pyle was killed on Ie Shima off Okinawa, Japan. 
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18 Apr 1945 WW2 Over 300,000 encircled German troops in the Ruhr region of western Germany surrendered. US First Army entered Düsseldorf. 
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18 Apr 1945 WW2 US Ninth Army captured Magdeburg, Germany. 
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18 Apr 1945 WW2 British Second Army captured Lüneburg and Ülzen, Germany. 
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18 Apr 1945 WW2 The Western Allies reported that German prisoners taken since the Normandy invasion had reached two million, with the exact count at 2,055,575. 
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18 Apr 1945 WW2 2nd Byelorussian Front broke the Oder defensive line between Schwedt and Stettin, Germany. 
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18 Apr 1945 WW2 As some German troops surrendered Helgoland to the Allies peacefully, SS men shot some of them for the traitorous act. 
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18 Apr 1945 WW2 Soviet 1st Byelorussian Front finally penetrated the Seelow Heights defensive lines at Berlin, Germany. Joseph Goebbels burned files in his office as Soviet troops approached. 
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18 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Rock bombarded a Japanese radio station at Batan, Batanes Islands, Philippine Islands. 
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18 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Cabrilla attacked a Japanese convoy off northern Japan with six torpedoes, one of which damaged a transport. 
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18 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Parche attacked a Japanese transport east of Kamaichi, Japan; all 3 torpedoes missed. 
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18 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Seahorse was damaged by two Japanese patrol vessels off Japan; she fired one torpedo in return, but it missed. She set sail for Guam, Mariana Islands for repairs. 
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18 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Chub arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her first war patrol. 
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18 Apr 1945 WW2 US troops began fighting in the old city section of Nürnberg, Germany; meanwhile, US 3rd Army sent units across the Czechoslovakian border. 
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18 Apr 1945 WW2 German pilot Johannes Steinhoff was seriously burned during a takeoff accident with his Me 262 jet fighter at München (Munich), Germany. 
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18 Apr 1945 WW2 German 29th Panzergrenadier Division unsuccessfully attempted an armored counterattack against the British bridgehead north of the Fossa Marina canal near Argenta, Italy. 
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18 Apr 1945 WW2 Canadian tanks reached the shores of the Ijsselmeer lake, effectively cutting off the 120,000 strong German 25th Army in Holland. 
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19 Apr 1945 WW2 Goebbels' speech for Hitler's birthday promised that Germany would ultimately prevail in the face of all misfortune and Allied strength. 
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19 Apr 1945 WW2 617 Lancaster, 332 Halifax, and 20 Mosquito aircraft attacked Helgoland, Germany; 3 Halifax bombers were lost. The attack prompted Germany to evacuate civilians from the island to the mainland. 
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19 Apr 1945 WW2 A major attack was launched against Japanese positions on Okinawa, Japan. 
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19 Apr 1945 WW2 A Royal Canadian Air Force Catalina crashed in Labrador in northeastern Canada. In the following operation to rescue the seven crewmen, a US Coast Guard HNS1 helicopter would be deployed to assist. This was one of the first rescue operations undertaken by a rotary wing aircraft. 
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19 Apr 1945 WW2 Aleksandr Vasilevsky was awarded the Order of Victory for the second time. 
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19 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Sennet sank Japanese cargo ship Hagane Maru and an escorting vessel south of Japan, hitting them with 2 of 3 torpedoes fired. 
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19 Apr 1945 WW2 Ivan Bagramyan was awarded the Order of Suvorov for the second time. 
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19 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Hackleback fired an acoustic seeking torpedo at a Japanese patrol vessel south of Japan; the torpedo missed. 
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19 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Cero sank a Japanese patrol vessel south of Japan, hitting her with 1 of 2 torpedoes fired. 
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19 Apr 1945 WW2 A He 162 jet fighter shot down one British fighter, but it was in turn shot down by a British Tempest fighter. 
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19 Apr 1945 WW2 Xiao Yisu was awarded the Legion of Merit of the United States. 
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19 Apr 1945 WW2 British troops wiped out 500 Japanese troops at Mount Popa, Burma west of Meitkila after 20 days of heavy fighting. 
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19 Apr 1945 WW2 American B-24 bombers attacked Japanese shipping off Saigon, Indochina. 
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19 Apr 1945 WW2 US First Army captured Halle and Leipzig in Germany. 
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19 Apr 1945 WW2 British Second Army attacked Bremen, Germany across the Elbe River while Canadian troops captured the Luftwaffe base of Stade, 40 kilometers west of Hamburg, without opposition. 
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19 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Dragonet departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her second war patrol. 
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19 Apr 1945 WW2 US 5th Army reached the Po plateau in Italy. 
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19 Apr 1945 WW2 Italian frogmen piloting British-built Chariot manned-torpedoes sank the uncompleted aircraft carrier Aquila to prevent the Germans from scuttling the ship to block the entrance to Genoa harbour, Italy. 
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19 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Sunfish sank Japanese ships Kaiko Maru and Taisei Maru south of Hokkaido, Japan, hitting them with 3 of 11 torpedoes fired; she expended all of her torpedoes in this attack. 
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19 Apr 1945 WW2 Lavrentiy Beria ordered the agents of NKVD, NKGB, and SMERSH to sent all German prisoners of war to concentration camps and all Soviet citizens suspected to have helped the Germans to special vetting camps. SMERSH agents would disobey this order, continuing to send their arrestees directly to SMERSH-run prisons in Moscow, Russia. 
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19 Apr 1945 WW2 US B-24 bombers based in the Philippine Islands struck the city of Shinchiku (now Hsinchu), Taiwan. 
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19 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Macabi entered a floating drydock for transit the Chicago Canal to the Mississippi River. 
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20 Apr 1945 WW2 Soviet artillery began to fall on Berlin, Germany on Adolf Hitler's 56th and last birthday. After a brief birthday celebration, the generals urged Hitler to flee Berlin for southern Germany to continue the fight; Hitler decided not to go, setting up a northern command (under Karl Dönitz) and a southern command (tentatively under Albert Kesselring) instead should Berlin fall. 
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20 Apr 1945 WW2 Germany evacuated civilians from the island of Helgoland after sundown; the evacuation was ordered after a major bombing attack by over 900 British bombers on the previous day. 
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20 Apr 1945 WW2 US Army troops landed on Catanduanes, Philippine Islands. 
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20 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Charr arrived at the naval base at Subic Bay, Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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20 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Snook failed to respond when requested by a British carrier task force to rescue a downed airman in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. 
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20 Apr 1945 WW2 Hermann Göring destroyed his lavish Karinhall estate near Eberswalde in Germany, loading all his treasures (most of which plundered from across occupied Europe) onto 24 heavy trucks and several train cars. 
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20 Apr 1945 WW2 German General of the Infantry Hermann Niehoff distributed chocolate to the encircled troops defending Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland) in honor of Adolf Hitler's birthday. 
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20 Apr 1945 WW2 German pilot Leutnant Rudolf Schmitt became the first to use the He 162 jet fighter's ejection seat. 
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20 Apr 1945 WW2 I-400 arrived at Dalian, China and began loading fuel. 
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20 Apr 1945 WW2 Chinese and American agents of the Sino-American Special Technical Cooperative Organization (SACO) destroyed a Japanese supply train near Wuchang, Hubei Province, China with 50 pounds of TNT. 
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20 Apr 1945 WW2 Between 13,500 and 15,000 prisoners were transferred from Buchenwald and Gross-Rosen subcamps to the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in occupied Czechoslovakia over the following 20 days. 
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20 Apr 1945 WW2 Andrei Zhdanov, the head of the Allied Control Commission in Finland, gave Finnish Home Secretary Yrjö Leino a list of 22 men, most of whom were citizens of Finland, and ordered him to arrest them and turning them over to Soviet SMERSH. Leino would comply without questioning. 
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20 Apr 1945 WW2 Lorraine completed a week-long bombardment of German positions in the Gironde estuary in western France between La Rochelle and Bordeaux as the Germans surrendered the Girond-Nord fortress in Royan. 
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20 Apr 1945 WW2 US Seventh Army captured Nürnberg, Germany. 
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20 Apr 1945 WW2 The German OKW moved from Zossen near Berlin, Germany to Mürwik, northern Germany to escape the approaching Soviet forces. 
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20 Apr 1945 WW2 Instructed to sacrifice everything for speed the French 5th Armoured Division and Spahi reconnaissance regiment enthusiastically overcame fanatical resistance from German SS units to enter the western suburbs of Stuttgart, Germany. The tanks had moved so fast that it would not be until the following day that their supporting infantry, Moroccan and Algerian Tiralleurs, could catch up, but they had beaten the Americans to the Southwest German city. 
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20 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Springer departed Guam, Mariana Islands for her second war patrol. 
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20 Apr 1945 WW2 US 5th Army broke through German defensive lines and reached the Po River Valley north of Bologna, Italy. 
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20 Apr 1945 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho was transferred from Carrier Division 1 of the 2nd Fleet to the Japanese Navy Kure Naval District Force as Reserve Ship No. 4. 
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20 Apr 1945 WW2 Vice Admiral Gisaburo Yamaguchi was named the commanding officer of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea. 
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20 Apr 1945 WW2 Joseph Stalin ordered the Soviet Stavka to influence troops to be more humane toward the civilians of conquered German territories in order to ease the future occupation. 
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20 Apr 1945 WW2 US P-51 fighters based in the Philippine Islands attacked Koshun Airfield, Takao Prefecture, Taiwan. 
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20 Apr 1945 WW2 In Britain the government lifted the black-out restrictions apart from a five-mile wide strip along the coast. However, theatre lights, floodlighting and neon-type advertising was still banned, not to foil bombers but to save fuel. 
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20 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Ticonderoga departed Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Washington, United States for Alameda, California, United States, and then on to Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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21 Apr 1945 WW2 Feldmarschall Model committed suicide. 
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21 Apr 1945 WW2 Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front captured Bautzen and Cottbus, Germany. 
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21 Apr 1945 WW2 Soviet infantry reached Berlin, Germany. Adolf Hitler ordered an all-out counterattack against the Soviets at Berlin under the command of SS General Felix Steiner; this counterattack was never to be attempted. 
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21 Apr 1945 WW2 US Ninth Army captured Blankenburg, Germany. 
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21 Apr 1945 WW2 US First Army captured Dessau, Germany. 
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21 Apr 1945 WW2 At the end of the Ruhr battle in Germany, 325,000 Germans were taken prisoner. 
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21 Apr 1945 WW2 Americans declared Ie Shima, Japan secure. 
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21 Apr 1945 WW2 International Red Cross representatives visited the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp. 
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21 Apr 1945 WW2 200 to 300 German civilians from Gardelegen, Saxony, Germany were ordered by the US Army commander in the region to bury the 1,016 political and military prisoners who had been massacred by German SS and Luftwaffe troops on 13 Apr 1945. 
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21 Apr 1945 WW2 Louis Mountbatten scheduled Operation Dracula against Rangoon, Burma for 2 May 1945. William Slim hastened his units overland toward Rangoon in an attempt to reach Rangoon before Dracula commenced. 
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21 Apr 1945 WW2 Yukio Araki engaged American P-51 fighters over China. 
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21 Apr 1945 WW2 On the orders of Finnish Home Secretary Yrjö Leino, which were dictated by Allied Control Commission chief Andrei Zhdanov (but acting on behalf of Soviet SMERSH rather than the Allies), 20 men (most of whom Finnish citizens) were arrested and turned over to the Soviet SMERSH. 2 others were targeted for arrest but they were able to escape capture. 
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21 Apr 1945 WW2 French First Army captured Stuttgart, Germany. 
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21 Apr 1945 WW2 Soviet troops under Ivan Konev captured the German military headquarters near Zossen, south of Berlin, Germany. 
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21 Apr 1945 WW2 During the night (with the Red army already entering the suburbs) RAF Bomber Command attacked Berlin, Germany for the last time during the war. 
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21 Apr 1945 WW2 Theodore Morell was dismissed from his position as Adolf Hitler's personal physician, and departed the Führerbunker in Berlin, Germany in the evening. He was replaced by Ludwig Stumpfegger. 
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21 Apr 1945 WW2 3rd Carpathian Infantry Division of Polish II Corps captured Bologna, Italy with assistance from US 34th Division. 
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21 Apr 1945 WW2 Daniel Inouye led his platoon in destroying three German machine gun positions on the Gothic Line near San Terenzo, Italy, suffering a bullet wound in the stomach, a severed arm, and a bullet wound in the leg in the process. 
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21 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Boarfish arrived at Subic Bay, Philippine Islands, ending her second war patrol. 
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21 Apr 1945 WW2 Viktor Abakumov was awarded the Order of Kutuzov 1st Class for the successful execution of the radio game "Tuman" involving Pyotr Tavrin, a Russian national who spied for the Germans. 
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21 Apr 1945 WW2 Philippine air force began near-daily strikes on Japanese positions on Taiwan. 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 Adolf Hitler invited Joseph Goebbels and the Goebbels family to accompany him in Hitler's bunker in Berlin, Germany. 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 Soviet 1st Byelorussian Front penetrated the Berlin, Germany suburbs from the east and north. In the city, at the conference at 1500 hours, Adolf Hitler learned that the counterattack he ordered on the previous day was never carried out by SS General Felix Steiner and grew furious; when he was told by Wilhelm Keitel that Soviet tanks were now entering the city, Hitler conceded that the end was near, and decided for certain that he was to remain in Berlin. The most important papers stored at the bunker were now being burned. On the same day, Albert Speer entered Hitler's bunkers and met with him for the last time before Speer would leave Berlin. 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 Final German resistance in Harz Mountains were rooted out by US First and Ninth Armies. 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 British Second Army fought its way into Bremen, Germany. 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 Japanese special attack aircraft sank a minesweeper and damaged a number of other ships off Okinawa, Japan. 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Croaker refitted at Subic Bay, Philippine Islands, ending her fourth war patrol. 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Sennet searched for a P-51 fighter pilot who had bailed out near her position south of Japan, but would fail to locate the pilot. 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Parche sank a tanker and damaged another east of Kamaichi, Japan, hitting them with 3 of 6 torpedoes fired. 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Cero sank a Japanese patrol vessel and damaged a second one with her deck gun south of Japan. 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 Viktor Abakumov personally participated in the arrest of Aleksandr Nobikov, who failed to promote Joseph Stalin's son, Vasilii Stalin, to general rank. 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 In Burma, Indian 7th Division attacked Yenangyaung while Indian 5th Division attacked Toungoo. 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 US Seventh Army established a bridgehead across the Danuber River in southern Germany, while US Third Army began moving south through the Danube Valley. To the west, French First Army reached the Swiss-German border. 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 Polish 2nd Infantry Division captured Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, Oranienburg, Germany, with a prisoner population of about 3,000 at the time. 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 Wilhelm Keitel and Alfred Jodl departed Berlin, Germany for southern Germany on Adolf Hitler's orders. 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 Adolf Hitler recognized that the war was lost, and released all non-essential personnel from the Führerbunker in Berlin, Germany. He assured those dismissed that "nobody is now duty-bound to anything." 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 In Italy, US IV Corps and British XIII Corps reached the Po River at San Benedetto and Ficarolo, respectively. 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 A US Navy PB4Y-1 aircraft attacked small boats in Suo (now Suao) harbor in eastern Taiwan, destroying several small boats. 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 While performing a low level "beat-up" of the airfield at RAF Fulbeck in Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, a Lancaster bomber, serial PB463, struck a building and crashed, killing all seven crewmen and eight spectators on the ground. Another twenty personnel suffered injuries, of whom four later died in hospital. 
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23 Apr 1945 WW2 German SS-Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler contacted the Western Allies via Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte to negotiate for a peace agreement. 
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23 Apr 1945 WW2 Soviet troops reached outskirts of Berlin, Germany. 
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23 Apr 1945 WW2 US submarine USS Besugo sank German submarine U-183 in the Java Sea; only one German sailor survived the sinking. 
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23 Apr 1945 WW2 US Navy PB4Y Privateer bombers launched Bat missiles against Japanese shipping off Balikpapen, Borneo; it was the first and only use of automatic homing missiles in WW2. 
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23 Apr 1945 WW2 In Berlin, Germany, Adolf Hitler noted that, when Germany would have lost the war, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring would be the better person to negotiate peace terms. Göring, who was in Berchtesgaden in southern Germany, was made aware of this fact. After consulting Hans Lammers and other senior government officials, Göring carefully noted that, according to Hitler's decree of 29 Jun 1941, Göring would take power over Germany if Hitler could not respond by midnight. This message would be distorted by Martin Bormann as a sign of Göring's thirst for power. Hitler originally ordered Göring to surrender all of his positions, but Bormann would convince Hitler to issue an arrest order. 
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23 Apr 1945 WW2 British bombers attacked Lübeck, Germany. 
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23 Apr 1945 WW2 The 150 officers and 3,000 men of the 1st Division of the Indian National Army, an anti-British resistance group aided by the Japanese, surrendered to the Allies at Pyu, Burma. Meanwhile, Lieutenant General Heitaro Kimura, despite having been given orders of defend Rangoon, Burma to the death, ignominiously abandoned the city without issuing any orders to the Burma Area army. 
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23 Apr 1945 WW2 Prisoners of Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück Concentration Camps in Germany began to be evacuated by German authorities; some Jews were massacred by SS guards this week as the last massacres of the war. 
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23 Apr 1945 WW2 British Second Army reaches the Elbe River near Hamburg, Germany. 
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23 Apr 1945 WW2 After sundown, Albert Speer bid his final farewell to Adolf Hitler. He admitted to Hitler that he had sabotaged Hitler's scorched earth policies, and Hitler forgave him for disobeying the order. Speer toured the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany for the last time before leaving for Hamburg, Germany. 
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23 Apr 1945 WW2 Folke Bernadotte met Heinrich Himmler at the SS Hohenlychen sanatorium in Lychen, Germany for the last time. During this meeting, Bernadotte secured the release of some Scandinavian Jews, but refused to help seek a separate peace between Germany and the Western Allies. 
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23 Apr 1945 WW2 US Fifth and British Eighth Armies reached the Po River north of Bologna, Italy. British Eighth Army captured Ferrara in the process, while the US Fifth Army captured La Spezia. Allied troops captured Bondeno, Italy. 
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23 Apr 1945 WW2 In Italy, remnants German 148th Infantry Division began advancing from the Genoa area toward Parma. 
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24 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Cod unsuccessfully attacked a Japanese convoy and was subjected to a heavy depth charge barrage. 
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24 Apr 1945 WW2 Canadian First and British Second Armies entered Bremen, Germany. 
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24 Apr 1945 WW2 The United Kingdom abolished black-out with the exception of certain coastal areas. 
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24 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Charr departed the naval base at Subic Bay, Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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24 Apr 1945 WW2 Tranquility was commissioned into service. 
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24 Apr 1945 WW2 The American destroyer escort USS Frederick C. Davis was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-546 off the Atlantic coast. 
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24 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Parche attacked a Japanese transport east of Kamaichi, Japan; all 3 torpedoes missed. 
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24 Apr 1945 WW2 Indian 5th Division captured Toungoo, Burma and advanced further to Penwegu. 
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24 Apr 1945 WW2 US First Army liberated Dachau Concentration Camp in southern Germany. 
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24 Apr 1945 WW2 US Seventh Army crossed the Danube River to capture Ulm, Germany. Also in southern Germany, US 3rd Army reached the Danube River. 
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24 Apr 1945 WW2 US Fifth Army drove through Mantua on its way north along the Italian coast while British Eighth Army attacked across the Po River and captured Parma. The two columns made contact as British 6th Armoured Division linked up with US 10th Mountain Division. 
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24 Apr 1945 WW2 The final mission involving Italian motor torpedo boats against Allied targets was launched, involving four boats. 
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24 Apr 1945 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho was attacked by US aircraft at Etajima near Kure, Japan, receiving no damage. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Cod sank Japanese minesweeper W-41. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 Finland reported all German troops were now out of its boundaries, which was 10 days later than the Soviet demand. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 US Third Army crossed the Danube River in southern Germany. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 British bombers attacked Berchtesgaden, Germany. The US 8th Air Force conducted its last heavy bomber raid on Germany. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 Benito Mussolini fled to Como, Italy. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 US Army Colonel George Lynch addressed German civilians at Gardelegen, Saxony, Germany regarding the massacre of 1,016 political and military prisoners that took place nearby on 13 Apr 1945. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 USAAF B-24 bombers attacked Japanese shipping at Saigon, Indochina, sinking one transport. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 When units of Soviet 1st Byelorussian and 1st Ukrainian Fronts met near Kietzen, completing the encirclement of Berlin, Germany. German III.SS-Panzer Korps attempted to break this newly formed encirclement in failure. About 70 kilometers to the south, American and Soviet troops met at Torgau. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 Adolf Galland announced to the pilots of German Jagdverband 44 at München (Munich), Germany that the war was effectively lost, and he would only accept volunteers to continue fighting from now on. All of his men stepped forward as volunteers. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 Robert von Greim arrived at Gatow, Berlin, Germany. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 1st Lieutenant William B. Hoelscher, flying a flak-damaged P-51D fighter, pursued and claimed to have shot down the Me 262 jet fighter flown by Leutnant Sepp Huber at 0800 hours; the victory would not be credited. Unable to fly his damaged fighter home, Hoelscher crash landed in occupied Czechoslovakia and was assisted by locals until he made contact with personnel of US 14th Armored Division at Pilsen on 7 May 1945. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 US 34th Infantry Division occupied Parma, Italy, which had recently been liberated by Italian partisan fighters. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 British V Corps crossed the Po River in northern Italy. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 Many Italian motor torpedo boats were destroyed to prevent Allied capture. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 At 0900 hours, officers of Japanese Submarine Squadron 1 (Nobukiyo Nambu, Toshio Kusaka, Tsuruzo Shimizu, and Katsuo Ohashi) and 631st Naval Air Group (Lieutenant Commander Masayoshi Fukunaga, Atsugi Asamura, and Kazuo Takahashi) met to discuss plans for an attack on the Panama Canal. They were joined by officers from the Naval General Staff from Tokyo, Japan (Commander Shojiro Iura and Commander Yasuo Fujimori). 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Spot shelled Japanese facilities on Soheugsan island, Korea in the Yellow Sea, destroying or damaging a radio station, oil storage facilities, and barracks. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 Graf Zeppelin was scuttled with demolition charges at Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland) at 1800 hours to prevent Soviet capture. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 Allied convoy JW-66 arrived at the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. 
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25 Apr 1945 WW2 Representatives from 46 nations met in San Francisco, California, United States for the United Nations Conference on International Organization. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Cod had a fire in the aft torpedo room, but it was extinguished before causing serious damage; one sailor was lost, drowning after being washed overboard. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 20,000 German troops at Pillau, East Prussia, Germany (now Baltiysk, Russia) surrendered after two weeks of heavy fighting. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 The garrison at Bremen, Germany surrendered to British and Canadian forces. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 US Third Army captured Regensburg, Germany. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 German 9.Armee was cut off in the Halbe pocket in eastern Germany. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front captured Brno, Czechoslovakia. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 Soviet forces captured Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland). 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 Japan attempted to negotiate with the Soviet Union to maintain friendly status. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 Petain was arrested at the Swiss border. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Macabi arrived at New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 The Ohka Model 43 variant design efforts completed. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 Indian 17th Division reached Daiku, Burma. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 At Adolf Hitler's bunker in Berlin, Germany, Generaloberst Robert Ritter von Greim was promoted to the rank of Generalfeldmarschall and was named by Hitler as Hermann Göring's replacement. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 General Walther Wenck's German 12.Armee started to move in an attempt to relieve Berlin, Germany, but this attempt was repulsed by Soviet forces. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 Oberstleutnant Heinz Bär was appointed to command Luftwaffe jet fighter unit JV 44 in place of the wounded Adolf Galland. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 Hanna Reitsch attempted to convince Magda Goebbels at the Führerbunker in Berlin, Germany to let her take the Goebbels children to safety, but Goebbels refused to yield. In the evening, Adolf Hitler gave Reitsch a vial of poison before sending her on a mission out of Berlin, in case of her capture by the Soviets. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 Shortly after Adolf Galland (Jagdverband 44) attacked and shot down US B-26 bombers, his Me 262 jet fighter was shot down by Lieutenant James Finnegan's P-47D Thunderbolt fighter (US 50th Fighter Group). Galland crash landed safely at München-Riem Airfield in southern Germany, though sustaining wounds. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 German pilot Eduard Schallmoser's Me 262 jet fighter was shot down by an American fighter. Amazingly, he parachuted into his mother's garden, who told him to clean up while she cooked him dinner. Schallmoser would return to base on the next day. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 Captain Robert Clark, flying in a P-47 fighter, shot down a German Me 262 fighter of Jagdverband 44. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 Captain Herbert Philo, flying a P-47 fighter, shot down a German Me 262 fighter. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 31 departed. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 US Fifth Army captured Verona, Italy while Italian partisans took over Genoa and started an uprising in Milan. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 Brazilian scouts detected German troops near Collecchio, Italy; Brazilian infantry supported by US tanks attacked at 1930 hours. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 In Japan, 464 American B-29 bombers attacked the urban areas of Tokyo, Japan south of the Imperial Palace. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Whale completed her repairs and overhaul at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Tirante arrived at Midway, ending her first war patrol. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Hackleback arrived at Midway Atoll, ending her first war patrol. 
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27 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Sea Cat departed for her third war patrol. 
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27 Apr 1945 WW2 Italian partisans captured Benito Mussolini. 
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27 Apr 1945 WW2 US First Army captured Kempten and Straubing in southern Germany. 
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27 Apr 1945 WW2 The western Allies refused to consider Himmler's attempts at negotiation for peace. 
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27 Apr 1945 WW2 Operation Kikusui No. 4 was launched off Okinawa, Japan, participated by about 65 Japanese Navy and 50 Japanese Army special attack and escorting aircraft. 
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27 Apr 1945 WW2 Japanese Shinyo special attack boats damaged destroyer USS Hutchins and an LCI landing ship at Okinawa, Japan. 
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27 Apr 1945 WW2 Aleksandr Vasilevsky began planning for the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation. 
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27 Apr 1945 WW2 The British East Indies Fleet sailed from Trincomalee, Ceylon to begin a series of strikes prior to the capture of Rangoon, Burma; this force of battleships, cruisers and destroyers would take it in turns to fuel and then screen the carriers hitting airfields, installations and coastal shipping in the Nicobars, the Andamans and along the Burma coast. Meanwhile, on land, Indian 17th Division was attacked by a Japanese suicide offensive north of Pegu; it was repulsed after the Japanese suffered 500 killed. 
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27 Apr 1945 WW2 German 9.Armee and 20.Armee both attempted to attack towards Berlin, Germany, but both were rebuffed by Soviet forces. Inside Berlin, Soviet forces completed the capture of Templehof airfield, with other fighting concentrated in the Spandau and Grunewald areas. 
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27 Apr 1945 WW2 Before dawn, German Luftwaffe wing KG 4 flew its final supply mission to Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland) as 30 He 111 aircraft dropped 24 tons of ammunition to the German garrison in the city. 
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27 Apr 1945 WW2 US Fifth Army entered Genoa, Italy. 
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27 Apr 1945 WW2 Brazilian infantry and US tanks drove out German troops at Collecchio, Italy. 
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27 Apr 1945 WW2 Nikolai Selivanovsky was named the NKVD adviser to the Polish Ministry of Public Safety, replacing Ivan Serov. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 Sunken cruiser Köln's turrets fired against enemy troops advancing at Wilhelmshaven, Germany (near Neuenburg and Bockhorn). 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Trepang sank Japanese Transport Number 146 in the Yellow Sea. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 Canadian First Army captured Emden and Wilhelmshaven, Germany. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 Himmler's attempts to negotiate peace with the Western Allies was discovered Hitler, who stripped him of all his titles and ranks and ordered for his arrest. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 Mussolini was hanged by Italian partisans along with his mistress Clara Petacci and a dozen of his cabinet members. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 A group of Austrian resistance fighters became the last victims of gassings at Mauthausen Concentration Camp. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 Japanese special attack aircraft damaged 5 destroyers, 2 hospital ships, and victory ship Bozeman Victory off Okinawa, Japan. None of the four G4M bombers carrying Ohka special attack aircraft hit their targets. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Sennet sank Japanese repair ship Hatsushima south of Japan, hitting her with 2 of 3 torpedoes fired. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 In Burma, the XV Corps, which had been leapfrogging islands along the coast, reached and captured Taungup. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 Anglo-Indian troops captured Allanmyo, Burma. Elsewhere, Indian 17th Division reached the heavily-defended Pegu, where the Japanese built the final major stronghold north of Rangoon, which was 47 miles to the south. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Alabama arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 American bombers attacked Japanese shipping at Saigon, Indochina, sinking 1 tanker and 6 other vessels. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 US Seventh Army captured Augsburg, Germany. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 In Berlin, Germany, Marshal Ivan Koniev's men had virtually cleared the Potsdamer Strasse and Soviet troops were now within a mile of the Chancellery and the Reichstag, spurred on by Joseph Stalin's explicit wish that the Soviet flag should fly there in time for the May Day celebrations. In the bunker under the Chancellery, Adolf Hitler awaited reports for the progress of the counterattack he had ordered Walther Wenck to commence; he would receive no such report as he counterattack never took place. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 Robert von Greim departed Berlin, Germany. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Sunfish arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her eleventh war patrol. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 In Italy, British Eighth Army captured Venice and US Fifth Army captured Brescia. German Colonel General Heinrich von Vietinghoff dispatched a messenger from Bolzano, Italy toward the Allies lines seeking a ceasefire. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 Brazilian infantry and US tanks attacked the remnants of German 148th Infantry Division at Fornovo di Taro, Italy. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 Captain Chojuro Takahashi was relieved as the commanding officer of light carrier Ryuho; Captain Hojima was assigned to oversee the damaged carrier until the end of the war. On the same day, the carrier was attacked by US aircraft at Etajima near Kure, Japan, receiving no damage. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Springer attacked Japanese transports in the harbor at Tomie (now part of Goto), Nagasaki, Japan; she scored no hits on the transports, but she was able to sink Submarine Chaser No. 17 during the counterattack, hitting her with 1 or 2 of 6 torpedoes. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 In Holland an unofficial truce commenced, allowing British and Canadian convoys through the German lines unmolested to deliver food, fuel and vital supplies to the starving Dutch civilian population. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 Hungarian Count István Bethlen was transferred to Moscow, Russia for interrogation due to his past pro-British tendencies. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 The bodies of Mussolini and Petacci were taken to Milan, Italy and hung upside down for public display at the spot where partisans had been executed earlier. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 The Soviet Union set up a provisional government in Vienna, Austria. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 Japanese B5N torpedo bombers from Truk, Caroline Islands attacked Manus, Admiralty Islands; they launched torpedoes at floating docks, which were misidentified as carriers. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 Japanese transport Kumikawa Maru hit a mine laid by Australian aircraft and became damaged off Balikpapan, Borneo. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 Eva Braun changed her legal name to Eva Hitler after marrying Adolf Hitler. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Macabi departed New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Cero sank a Japanese tanker south of Japan, hitting her with 1 of 4 torpedoes fired. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 The two-prong assault by Indian 17th Division on Pegu, Burma was repulsed. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun in his bunker in Berlin, Germany, and began dictating his final political testament and will. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 British Second Army crossed the Elbe River at Hamburg, Germany. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 US troops arrived at the outskirts of München, Germay. To the west, French First Army captured Freidrichshafen. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 In Germany, troops of US 157th and 122nd Infantry Regiments executed 165 German SS prisoners of war at Dachau Concentration Camp and the hamlet of Weßling to the southwest before a colonel intervened. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 In the afternoon, Colonel Nicolaus von Below and other three adjutant officers departed Adolf Hitler's bunker in Berlin, Germany. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 US tanks arrived at Oberammergau air test facility in southern Germany. Aircraft designer Willy Messerschmitt was captured along with a P.1101 prototype jet aircraft. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 The British 2nd Army captured Lauenburg, just south of Hamburg, in Germany, thus trapping all German forces in Denmark and securing the Baltic Ports. When Soviet forces arrived at Lubeck and Wismar not long afterwards they found British and Canadian paratroopers waiting for them. Bernard Montgomery had thereby, not only denied Joseph Stalin the opportunity to seize Denmark, but had also kept the Soviet Navy locked within the Baltic Sea. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Ray arrived at Apra Harbor, Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Sterlet departed Midway for her fourth war patrol. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Sea Robin arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her second war patrol. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 British Eighth and US Fifth Armies linked up near Padua, Italy, which had just been liberated by Italian partisans who surrounded the 5,000-strong German garrison. Later in the day, German Colonel General Heinrich von Vietinghoff surrendered Axis forces in northern Italy. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 German 148th Division, Italian 4th Alpine Division "Monte Rosa", Italian 3rd Marine Division "San Marco", and German 29th Waffen-SS Grenadier Division (Italian troops) surrendered to Brazilian General Mascarenhas de Moraes near Parma, Italy. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Marcus Island departed Okinawa, Japan. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 Allied convoy RA-66 departed the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. 
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29 Apr 1945 RELIGIOUS U.S. troops liberated the oldest of the Nazi concentration camps -- Dachau -- in Bavaria, West Germany. It is estimated that nearly 32,000 prisoners (mostly Jews) perished at Dachau during its 12-year existence as a Nazi detention camp.
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30 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Trepang sank Miho Maru in the Yellow Sea. 
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30 Apr 1945 WW2 The Western Allies captured Finnmark, Norway. 
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30 Apr 1945 WW2 Soviets and US First Army linked up near Ellenburg, Germany. 
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30 Apr 1945 WW2 British Second Army freed 20,000 prisoners of war from Sandbostel, Germany. 
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30 Apr 1945 WW2 American B-24 bombers sank Japanese transport Kunikawa Maru at Borneo. 
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30 Apr 1945 WW2 Ira Eaker was named deputy commander of the Army Air Forces and chief of the Air Staff. 
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30 Apr 1945 WW2 George Brett retired from the US Army. 
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30 Apr 1945 WW2 Anglo-Indian forces gained a beachhead on the west bank of the Pegu River at Pegu, Burma. 
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30 Apr 1945 WW2 Suichuan Airfield in Jiangxi Province, China was reactivated. 
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30 Apr 1945 WW2 German police chief Obergruppenführer Karl Hermann Frank announced over radio that any attempt to rise up by the citizens of Prague in the puppet state of Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia would be wiped out violently. 
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30 Apr 1945 WW2 The recently married Hitler and Braun committed suicide in Berlin, Germany. Their bodies were burned near the Chancellery bunker. 
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30 Apr 1945 WW2 In the Tiergarten district of Berlin, Germany, Zhukov launched an assault, refusing to permit an armistice, demanding only unconditional surrender. 
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30 Apr 1945 WW2 US troops captured München, Germany. 50 kilometers to the northeast, at Moosburg, US Third Army freed over 100,000 prisoners of war. 
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30 Apr 1945 WW2 Eva Hitler committed suicide in the Führerbunker in Berlin, Germany by ingesting cyanide. 
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30 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Ray departed Apra Harbor, Guam, Mariana Islands for her seventh war patrol. 
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30 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Sunfish departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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30 Apr 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 6 arrived on board. 
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30 Apr 1945 WW2 US Fifth Army in Italy made contact with French forces near the Italo-French border. On the same day, US troops captured Milan, Italy. 
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30 Apr 1945 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Yokosuka, Japan for her 24th voyage with the Japanese Navy. 
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30 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Springer was depth charged by a Japanese destroyer while attempting to attack Japanese shipping in the Yellow Sea; she would survive the attack with minor damage; 4 torpedoes were expended in her attempt to fire back at the destroyer. 
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30 Apr 1945 WW2 US 22nd Bombardment Group aircraft dropped 142 250-pound bombs on Japanese Navy Oil Refinery No. 6 (USAAF referred to this facility as the "Toshien Oil Refinery") at Toshien District, Takao (now Zuoying District, Kaohsiung), Taiwan. A direct hit was scored on the eastern-most oil tank, and the resulting black smoke rose to the altitude of 5,000 feet. 
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30 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Parche arrived at Midway Atoll, ending her fifth war patrol. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 Joseph Goebbels passed away. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 US Third Army arrived on the pre-war German-Austrian border. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 The US 15th Air Force conducted its final bombing mission in Italy. Meanwhile, German troops in Italy surrendered in accordance with secret negotiations, followed by an announcement for the cessation of hostilities. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 US Ninth and British Second Armies combined their bridgeheads across the Elbe River in northern Germany. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 New Zealand troops captured Udina and linked up with Yugoslavian partisans near Trieste after the Yugoslavian forces beat the British 8th Army in capturing Trieste. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 Dönitz took his new post in accordance with Hitler's will and immediately ordered the strongest resistance in the east, as tens of thousands of civilians struggled to stay ahead of oncoming Soviet forces. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 Japanese troops began to withdraw from southern China. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 The Mexican Expeditionary Air Force arrived in the Philippine Islands. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 Allied forces captured German Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 German concentration camp authorities ordered the execution of Kurt Schuschnigg. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 USS Hawkbill damaged Japanese minelayer Hatsutaka, which was grounded to prevent sinking. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 USS Sennet attacked a Japanese destroyer off Japan; all six torpedoes missed. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 Pilots of US Navy squadron VF-66, flying FR Fireball piston-jet mix-powered fighters, flew qualifying missions from USS Ranger; two aircraft were damaged while landing. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 George Brett was reactivated from the US Army retired list. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 Indian 50th Parachute Regiment was dropped near Rangoon, Burma as the spearhead to Operation Dracula. Meanwhile, determined to preempt Operation Dracula in the conquest of Rangoon, William Slim carelessly attempted to enter the city himself by air; his aircraft was damaged by Japanese anti-aircraft fire and the American pilot, Captain Robert Fullerton, sustained injuries in his leg so severe that it had to be amputated later. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 Submarine I-369 arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. This would be the last submarine-transport to arrive at Truk in the Pacific War. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 German 12.Armee retreated from Berlin, Germany to the Elbe River and attempted to begin negotiations with US troops. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 Hans Krebs informed Vasily Chuikov of Adolf Hitler's suicide, thus Chuikov became the first Soviet general to learn of this news. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 Soviet SMERSH agents arrested Reichssicherhetsdienst (RSD) Gruppe commander Oberführer Johann Rattenhuber in Berlin, Germany. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 Artur Axmann departed from Adolf Hitler's bunker in Berlin, Germany. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 German pilot Willi Kriessmann ferried an Ar 234 jet bomber to German Luftwaffe bomber group Kampfgeschwader 76. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 USS Dragonet arrived at Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 USS Ticonderoga arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 British Wing Commander James Nicholson, the only fighter pilot during the war to be awarded the Victoria Cross (during the Battle of Britain), was killed when the Liberator bomber in which he was flying as an observer suffered an engine fire and crashed into the sea off Calcutta, India. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 U-977 departed Kristiansand, Norway on her first and only war patrol. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 USS Trepang surfaced to shell a sampan, but later called off the attack and allowed the boat to leave. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 Wilhelm Burgdorf passed away. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 British Second Army reached Lübeck, Germany. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 German forces allowed the passage of convoys carrying relief supplies to civilians in occupied Netherlands. On the same day, 400 American B-17 bombers dropped food and other supplies over the Netherlands. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 Commandant Rahm of the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp relinquished control of the camp to the International Red Cross. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 Ann Baumgartner married Major William Carl and adopted her husband's last name. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 British Field Marshal Harold Alexander accepted the surrender of the Axis forces in Southern Europe. Over 1,000,000 men in northern Italy and Austria laid down their arms. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 USS Baya fired six torpedoes at a Japanese vessel in the Gulf of Siam; all torpedoes missed. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 The US coastal minesweeper YMS-481 was sunk by Japanese shore batteries off Tarakan, Borneo. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 USS Hawkbill fired three torpedoes into Japanese minelayer Hatsutaka, which she had damaged on the previous day, sinking her. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 Soviet SMERSH operatives captured Hans Fritzsche. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 A group of prominent prisoners of war were transferred from the camp at Laufen in southern Germany to a camp at Markt Pongau near Salzburg in occupied Austria, where they would be treated respectfully by SS-Obergruppenführer Gottlob Berger who wished to curry favor as the war was coming to an end. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 In Burma, Indian 26th Division and Indian 17th Division continued their competition to be the first division to reach Rangoon. The 26th Division made an amphibious landing near the city, while the 17th Division secured Pegu. The first individual to enter Rangoon, however, was an RAF officer who landed on a nearby airstrip on this date. He walked into the city and, having assured himself that the Japanese had really gone, sailed down the river in a commandeered sampan to meet the troops advancing from the south. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 The Japanese-sponsored puppet state Manchukuo issued its last postage stamps. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 General Helmuth Weidling accepted General Vasily Chuikov's terms of unconditional surrender; the surrender of the Berlin garrison in Germany was to be effective at 1500 hours. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 Werhner von Braun departed Haus Ingeborg in Oberjoch in the Allgäu mountains in southern Germany for Austria; his group ran into American troops after passing through Adolf-Hitler-Pass (now Oberjoch Pass). 
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02 May 1945 WW2 Soviet troops captured Rechlin-Lärz Airfield in Rechlin, Mecklenburg, Germany, a Luftwaffe test site. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 Soviet SMERSH agents captured German SS-Gruppenführer Johann Rattenhuber, Rear Admiral Hans-Erich Voß, General of Artillery Helmuth Weidling, and SS General Wilhelm Mohnke in Berlin, Germany. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 The Soviet Hammer and Sickle flag was hoisted atop the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 Walter Dornberger departed Haus Ingeborg in Oberjoch in the Allgäu mountains in southern Germany for Austria; his group ran into American troops after passing through Adolf-Hitler-Pass (now Oberjoch Pass). 
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02 May 1945 WW2 Werner Haase was captured by Soviet troops in Berlin, Germany. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 Air Group 87 arrived aboard USS Ticonderoga at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Kure, Japan. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 USS Springer attacked a Japanese transport and two escort ships, sinking Japanese frigate Ojika in the Yellow Sea, hitting her with 3 of 4 torpedoes. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 The Soviet GKO created the positions of Deputy Front Commanders in Charge of the Management of Civil Affairs. The first holders of these positions were Soviet counterintelligence leaders Ivan Serov, Lavrentiy Tsavana, and Pavel Meshik. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 USS Pompon attacked a small Japanese boat off Taiwan with her deck gun; the boat escaped without damage. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 British government announced that London, England, United Kingdom was now a "Go Home" area, ending the nearly six-year evacuation. 
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03 May 1945 WW2 400 American B-17 bombers dropped food and other supplies over the Netherlands. 
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03 May 1945 WW2 US Ninth Army made contact with Soviet forces near Wismar, Germany. 
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03 May 1945 WW2 97 USAAF B-29 bombers dropped mines off of a number of Japanese coastal industrial centers. 
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03 May 1945 WW2 Operation Kikusui No. 5 was launched off Okinawa, Japan, participated by about 75 Japanese Navy and 50 Japanese Army special attack and escorting aircraft; they sank one destroyer and damaged four other ships. On the same day, a special attack boat damaged a transport also off Okinawa. 
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03 May 1945 WW2 Japanese Prime Minister Suzuki maintained "faith in certain victory" in a public statement despite Germany defeat. 
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03 May 1945 WW2 The Allied military government in western Germany began to form. 
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03 May 1945 WW2 Admiral Dönitz established the seat of his government in Denmark. 
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03 May 1945 WW2 Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio de Oliveira Salazar sent a Foreign Ministry official to the German Embassy offering his condolences over the death of Adolf Hitler. Meanwhile, the Portuguese government declared two days of mourning for the recently deceased German leader. 
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03 May 1945 WW2 RAF Typhoon fighter-bombers, looking for ships transporting German troops to Norway where it was believed they planned to make a last stand, attacked and sank the troopships Cap Arcona and Thielbek, which were actually loaded with concentration camp inmates under transportation. The full death toll had never been established but could be as high as 8,000 from the two ships, including crews and SS guards. 
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03 May 1945 WW2 USS Baya fired six torpedoes at a Japanese oiler in the Gulf of Siam; all torpedoes missed. 
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03 May 1945 WW2 A group of prominent prisoners of war were allowed to move toward American lines, with SS guards in escort, from Markt Pongau near Salzburg in occupied Austria per the orders of SS-Obergruppenführer Gottlob Berger who wished to curry favor with the Allies as the European War neared its end. 
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03 May 1945 WW2 Walter Dornberger, having already been detained by American troops on the previous day in Austria, was officially listed as under arrest. 
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03 May 1945 WW2 Werhner von Braun, having already been detained by American troops on the previous day in Austria, was officially listed as under arrest. 
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03 May 1945 WW2 Rangoon, Burma was captured by Indian 26th Division with little resistance. Fleeing Japanese were slaughtered not just by British and Commonwealth troops but by Burmese guerrillas and tribesmen who rose up against their former occupiers. 
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03 May 1945 WW2 Submarine I-369 departed Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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03 May 1945 WW2 Oliver Leese and Louis Mountbatten met at Kandy, Ceylon; Leese recommended William Slim be relieved now that the Burma campaign was effectively completed. 
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03 May 1945 WW2 A German delegation met with British Field Marshal Montgomery on Luneberg Heath, outside Hamburg, Germany, offering the surrender of all their forces in northwestern Germany - A total of more than one million men. 
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03 May 1945 WW2 Hamburg, Germany was declared an open city and surrendered to British Second Army. In the harbor, the Germans scuttled 59 merchant ships and 600 smaller craft to prevent capture. 
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03 May 1945 WW2 US Third Army crossed the Inn River in Germany. 
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03 May 1945 WW2 USS Dragonet departed Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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03 May 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: The following squadrons and air groups aboard at this time: Carrier Air Group 100 (CVG-100); Carrier Night Air Group 91 (CVGN-91); Carrier Night Air Group 53 (CVGN-53); Air Photographic Squadron 3 (VD-3); Air Group 6; CASU - Photographic Training Unit. 
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03 May 1945 WW2 Former Russian White Army officer and more recently German collaborator Boris Smyslowsky successfully escaped Soviet capture by crossing the border into Liechtenstein. 
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03 May 1945 WW2 USS Springer sank Japanese Coastal Defense Vessel No. 25 in the Yellow Sea, hitting her with 3 of 7 torpedoes fired. 
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04 May 1945 WW2 USS Trepang sank Japanese Minesweeper Number 20 in the Yellow Sea. 
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04 May 1945 WW2 Fedor von Bock passed away. 
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04 May 1945 WW2 Orion was sunk off Swinemünde, Germany (now Swinoujscie, Poland) by bombs. About 4,000 people, most of whom refugees, were killed. 
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04 May 1945 WW2 Charles Sweeney became the commanding officer of the 393rd Bombardment Squadron, Heavy which was a part of the USAAF 509th Composite Group designated to deliver the atomic bombs when they are ready. 
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04 May 1945 WW2 German forces in Denmark, the Netherlands, and northwestern Germany surrendered to British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, to be in effect at 0800 hours on the next day. Meanwhile, in Germany, US Ninth Army accepted surrender of German Ninth and Twelfth Armies and US Third Army accepted the surrender by Feldmarschall Paul von Kleist. 
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04 May 1945 WW2 Operation Iceberg II was commenced by the Allies to support the campaign on Okinawa, Japan. Meanwhile, Japanese special attack aircraft sank two destroyers and damaged a number of other warships off the island, including British carrier HMS Formidable and American minesweeper USS Shea (hit by 1 of 7 Ohka special attack aircraft launched on this day). 
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04 May 1945 WW2 HMS King George V bombarded airfields in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. 
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04 May 1945 WW2 Deutschland was decommissioned from service. 
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04 May 1945 WW2 The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Morrison was sunk by a Japanese special attack aircraft off Okinawa, Japan. 
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04 May 1945 WW2 The US submarine Lagarto was sunk by the Japanese minelayer Hatsutaka in the Gulf of Siam. 
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04 May 1945 WW2 Kurt Schuschnigg was liberated by American troops. 
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04 May 1945 WW2 USS Cero sank a Japanese transport east of Japan, hitting her with 1 of 2 torpedoes fired; an additional 3 torpedoes were expended (but missed) in attacking other ships in the same convoy. 
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04 May 1945 WW2 Pastor Hornig, Dr. Konrad, Bishop Ferche, and Canon Kramer, the three leading religious leaders in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), unsuccessfully attempted to persuade German General of the Infantry Hermann Niehoff to surrender the city to the Soviets. 
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04 May 1945 WW2 German pilot Leutnant Rudolf Schmitt shot down a British Tempest fighter while flying a He 162 jet fighter. 
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04 May 1945 WW2 US Seventh Army occupied Innsbruck, Berchtesgaden, Germany and Salzburg, Austria. 
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04 May 1945 WW2 British troops entered Neuengamme Concentration Camp near Hamburg, Germany. 
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04 May 1945 WW2 Hans Fritzsche was brought to the Chancellory in Berlin, Germany to identity the body of Joseph Goebbels. 
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04 May 1945 WW2 US Fifth Army moved up to the Brenner Pass on the Italo-Austrian border. 
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04 May 1945 WW2 Prince Philipp was arrested by US troops at Niederdorf in Sudtirolo (South Tyrol), Italy. 
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04 May 1945 WW2 USS Luce was attacked by two Japanese special attack aircraft off Okinawa, Japan. The first was shot down near the port side of the ship, and the blast of the explosion caused power failures throughout the ship. The second aircraft crashed into the aft portion of the destroyer, knocking out the port engine, jamming the rudder, and flooding engineering spaces. The commanding officer gave the order to abandon ship at 0814 hours. Of the 312 on board, 126 were killed in the attack and the sinking. 
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04 May 1945 WW2 USS Spot arrived at Saipan, Mariana Islands, ending her second war patrol. 
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04 May 1945 WW2 USS Springer set sail toward waters south of Japan on lifeguard duty. 
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04 May 1945 WW2 USS Mingo entered Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States for overhaul. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 Oberleutnant Heinz Schäffer of U-977 decided to head for Argentina instead of returning home per President Karl Dönitz's orders. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 German General Blaskowitz surrendered all German forces in the Netherlands at the Hotel de Wereld in Wageningen to Canadian General Charles Foulkes. In Denmark, the German occupation forces surrendered. In Italy, German Armeegruppe C surrendered. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 Japanese balloon bombs floated across the Pacific Ocean, landing and detonating in Oregon in the United States, killing 6. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 US 11th Armored Division entered Mauthausen Concentration Camp in occupied Austria region of Germany. The Council of Jewish Elders at Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in Czechoslovakia, operating under Commandant Rahm, met with the commandant for the last time. The council was dissolved after that meeting. Later that day, Rahm fled the camp ahead of the advancing Soviet troops. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 Soviet Army launches a final assault in Moravia region of Czechoslovakia against what remains of German Armeegruppe Mitte. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 400 American B-17 bombers dropped food and other supplies over the Netherlands. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 German submarine U-853 torpedoed and sank American collier Black Point Off Block Island, Rhode Island, United States, killing 12, 34 were later rescued; Black Point was the last American merchant ship to be lost in WW2. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 Allied aircraft conducted raids across Borneo in preparation of the Australian invasion. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 Walter Krupinski was captured by the Americans. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 USS Missouri departed Okinawa, Japan. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 USS Hawkbill departed Fremantle, Australia for her fourth war patrol. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 At a meeting attended by SS-Obergruppenführer von Herff and representatives of the Gestapo and SD, Heinrich Himmler outlined his plans to establish an SS government in Schleswig-Holstein which would conduct independent peace negotiations with the western powers. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 Lavrentiy Beria removed Viktor Abakumov from his position as the head counterintelligence chief of Soviet 3rd Byelorussian Front. Three generals were named to replace Abakumov: Colonel General Arkadii Apolonov, Lieutenant General Ivan Gorbatyuk, and Lieutenant General Fyodor Tutushkin. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 Nazi German Gauleiter Karl Hanke escaped Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland) via a Storch aircraft. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 Edward Brooks accepted the surrender of the German 19th and 24th Armies in Innsbruck, Austria. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 Motoki Yamazaki was named the President of the South Manchuria Railway. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 US Third Army captured Karlsbad and Pilsen in occupied Czechoslovakia. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 Czech resistance leaders made a radio broadcast, asking all resistance groups in Czechoslovakia to rise up against the Germans. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 SMERSH agents attached to Soviet 3rd Shock Army found two burned bodies in a bomb crater near the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany and buried them without much thinking. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 USS Marcus Island departed Guam, Mariana Islands with damaged aircraft on board. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 The Hiro Naval Arsenal in Kure, Japan was destroyed by US B-29 Superfortress bombers. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 Yukio Araki along with the rest of the 72nd Shinbu Squadron was ordered to relocate from the current base at Heijo (now Pyongyang), Korea to Metabaru Airfield in Saga Prefecture, Japan. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 US B-25 bombers attacked Matsuyama Airfield in Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 US B-24 bombers based in the Philippine Islands struck Shinchiku Airfield (now Hsinchu), Taiwan. 
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06 May 1945 WW2 USS South Dakota was damaged by a magazine explosion off Okinawa, Japan. Nearby, the British Royal Navy Aircraft Carrier HMS Formidable was hit by Kamikaze planes but her steel decking (most US Aircraft Carriers had wooden decking) saved her. Further south, the British Pacific Fleer shelled Japanese positions on the Sakishima Islands of the Ryukyu Islands, 550 miles south of Japan. 
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06 May 1945 WW2 German submarine U-853, having sunk the last American merchant ship to be lost in the war on the previous day, was discovered by American blimps and destroyers. She was destroyed off Block Island, Rhode Island, United States with all 55 aboard lost, becoming the second-to-last German submarine to be sunk in WW2. 
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06 May 1945 WW2 400 American B-17 bombers dropped food and other supplies over the Netherlands. 
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06 May 1945 WW2 Grand Admiral Dönitz announced that Himmler was to be relieved of all government duties; he also abolished the Schutzstaffel in all its forms, and banned any further resistance by members of the SS. 
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06 May 1945 WW2 The Dutch Nazi Party, Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging, was outlawed. 
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06 May 1945 WW2 USS Cero fired three torpedoes at a Japanese transport east of Japan; all torpedoes missed. 
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06 May 1945 WW2 German General of the Infantry Hermann Niehoff surrendered Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland) to the Soviets, ending the 82-day siege. 
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06 May 1945 WW2 US Fifth Army entered southern Austria through the Brenner Pass on the same day that the German forces in Austria surrendered to the Allies. 
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06 May 1945 WW2 Liberator VLR bombers of No. 86 Squadron of British RAF Coastal Command sank the German submarines U-1008 and U-2534 in the Kattegat off Denmark. 
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06 May 1945 WW2 In Burma, Anglo-Indian XV Corps linked up with IV Corps, which had been advancing down the Sittang River, and effectively cut off 20,000 sick, hungry and increasingly desperate Japanese from their bases in Indo-China. 
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06 May 1945 WW2 Czech resistance leaders made a radio broadcast, appealing to the Americans for military assistance in their war against the Germans, not knowing that the Western Allies had already made a deal with the Soviet Union in terms of operational boundaries in Central Europe. 
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06 May 1945 WW2 SMERSH agents of Soviet 3rd Shock Army sneaked into a section of Berlin, Germany occupied by a different Soviet unit to secretly retrieve two burned bodies near the Chancellery; they believed that one of them might be that of Adolf Hitler's. 
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06 May 1945 WW2 Werner Haase was brought by the Soviets to examine and identify the remains of the Goebbels family in Berlin, Germany. 
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06 May 1945 WW2 USS Capitaine departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. 
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06 May 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Carrier Night Air Group 53 (CVGN-53) departed. 
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06 May 1945 WW2 Portugal severed diplomatic ties with Germany. 
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06 May 1945 WW2 US B-24 bombers attacked Matsuyama Airfield in Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan. 
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06 May 1945 WW2 Joseph Rochefort was requested to report on the situation of Japanese war materials by the office of Admiral Ernest King. 
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07 May 1945 WW2 German submarine U-2336 sank Canadian transport ship Avondale Port and Norwegian transport ship Sneland off the Firth of Forth, Scotland, United Kingdom; around the same time, an RAF Catalina flying boat sank German submarine U-320 off Bergen, Norway. These battles came shortly after Admiral Dönitz's order for all submarines to cease offensive activities. Many German crews began scuttling their own submarines to prevent capture. 
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07 May 1945 WW2 British Eighth Army entered Austria. 
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07 May 1945 WW2 General Jodl signed the unconditional surrender of all German forces to the Allies, to take effect on the following day, at Eisenhower's headquarters near Rheims, France; the Soviets witnessed the surrender at Rheims, but did not recognise the surrender until another document was signed in the Soviet-conquered territory. On the same day, German occupation forces in Norway surrendered. 
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07 May 1945 WW2 Anton Mussert was arrested. 
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07 May 1945 WW2 Nürnberg was decommissioned from service. 
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07 May 1945 WW2 German President Karl Dönitz decreed that "ll nominations for the bestowal of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and their higher grades which have been received by the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht - staff of the Wehrmacht high command - until the capitulation becomes effective are approved, under the premise that all nominations are formally and correctly approved by the nominating authorities of the Wehrmacht, Heer including the Waffen-SS, Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe all the way to the level of the army and Heeres group leadership." 
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07 May 1945 WW2 Oliver Leese told William Slim his intention to transfer Slim to the British 12th Army for the occupation of Burma. Deprived the command to lead the invasion into Malaya, Slim told Leese that he would rather retire. 
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07 May 1945 WW2 USS Ray rescued 10 airmen of a downed B-29 bomber south of Kyushu, Japan. 
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07 May 1945 WW2 Submarine I-369 arrived at Woleai, Caroline Islands. 
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07 May 1945 WW2 German SS troops attacked Czechoslovakian resistance fighters outside of Prague, Czechoslovakia; the resistance fighters were saved by the unexpected assistance from 1st Division of Russian Liberation Army, which has previously fought on the side of the Germans. Meanwhile, in the city, German Field Marshal Ferdinand Schörner ordered his troops to begin evacuating the city, while he would soon depart by plane to southern Germany himself; the plane would crash en route, but he would survive the ordeal. 
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07 May 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: V-E Day.  
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07 May 1945 WW2 The Selfridges Department Store on Oxford Street, London, England, United Kingdom revealed that over the previous 2-3 weeks there had been a considerable public demand for Welcome Home Flags. 
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07 May 1945 WW2 Henry Arnold was relieved of command at the US Twentieth Air Force. 
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07 May 1945 WW2 USS Sunfish entered Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States for a scheduled overhaul. 
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08 May 1945 WW2 Paul Giesler passed away. 
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08 May 1945 WW2 Britain marked VE (Victory in Europe) Day with scenes of great public celebration and services of thanksgiving. In France, the German garrisons in coastal strongholds finally surrendered. In Berlin, Germany, Marshal Zhukov accepted the German surrender, which was to take effect on 11 May. Also on this date, German troops in Czechoslovakia surrendered. 
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08 May 1945 WW2 Every gun present at Okinawa, Japan, including naval guns, fired one round at noon at the Japanese in celebration of V-E Day. 
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08 May 1945 WW2 Soviet troops liberated Theresienstadt Concentration Camp; about 30,000 prisoners were present at the camp at the time. 
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08 May 1945 WW2 Crown Prince Olav of Norway returned to Oslo aboard a British Royal Navy warship on the same day that the city was declared liberated. 
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08 May 1945 WW2 Canadian sailors looted shops in during VE-Day celebrations in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. 
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08 May 1945 WW2 US 83rd Infantry Division became part of the US XIII Corps. 
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08 May 1945 WW2 Bernhard Rust committed suicide. 
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08 May 1945 WW2 Karl von Le Suire was captured by Soviet troops, thus ending his role as the commanding officer of German XXXXIX. Gebirgskorps. 
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08 May 1945 WW2 Field Marshal Robert Ritter von Greim, Head of the Luftwaffe since Hitler's dismissal of Hermann Göring in the last days of the collapsing German Reich, was captured by the Americans in Austria. 
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08 May 1945 WW2 Hubert Lanz surrendered to US Army troops in Austria. 
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08 May 1945 WW2 Most aircraft of the Japanese 5th Kokugun in China began to withdraw to Korea. By the end of the month, over 10,000 personnel would successfully reach their new bases. 
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08 May 1945 WW2 German Field Marshal Ferdinand Schörner escaped Prague, Czechoslovakia for Austria. 
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08 May 1945 WW2 A special medical commission of Soviet 1st Byelorussian Front headed by Lieutenant Colonel Faust Shkaravsky performed an autopsy on the two bodies retrieved near the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, one of which was suspected to be that of Adolf Hitler's. He noted that a part of the skull on one of the bodies was missing, but the cause of death of that person was more likely cyanide poisoning. 
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08 May 1945 WW2 Lieutenant Robert C. Little of US 12th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron became the last pilot to shoot down a German Luftwaffe aircraft in combat over the Western Front when, shortly after 2000 hours, he destroyed an attacking Focke-Wulf Fw 190 aircraft whilst on patrol over the Danube River. 
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08 May 1945 WW2 A German pilot landed a Ju 290 aircraft at München-Riem airport in southern Germany and surrendered to US troops. The aircraft carried women auxiliary personnel of the German Luftwaffe. 
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08 May 1945 WW2 92 German ships of various sizes departed Libau, Latvia with 18,000 German refugees onboard, sailing for Denmark and Germany. It would be the final convoy out of Latvia. 
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08 May 1945 WW2 The crew of USS Segundo held a celebratory dinner at Saipan, Mariana Islands. 
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08 May 1945 WW2 Allied convoy RA-66 arrived at Clyde, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 Feldmarschall Kesselring is captured near Saalfelden, Austria. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 The United States lifted its war time ban on horse racing. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 German cruiser Prinz Eugen surrendered to the Allied forces in Copenhagen, Denmark. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 German Reich Commissar for Norway, Josef Turboven, committed suicide in Oslo, Norway. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 Vidkun Quisling, Norway's pro-Nazi Prime Minister, was captured by the underground. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 In New Guinea, the Australians continued to make gains. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 Soviet troops captured Stutthof Concentration Camp near Danzig, Germany (now Gdansk, Poland) and reached Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in occupied Czechoslovakia. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 William Slim indicated to his senior staff at the British 14th Army that he might soon be sacked by Oliver Leese. The senior staff officers leaked out the news. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 The German garrisons in the Channel Islands surrendered. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 USS Missouri arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 USS Alabama departed Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 Soviet troops entered Prague, Czechoslovakia. A large number of German troops, fleeing Prague, reached the area between villages Milín, Slivice, and Cimelice near the US-USSR demarcation line. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 The German garrisons at Dunkerque (12,000 men), La Rochelle, Lorient, and Saint-Nazaire surrendered. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 Nazi German leader Hermann Göring surrendered to US troops in southern Germany. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 Soviet SMERSH agents arrested Käthe Heusermann, chief assistant to Adolf Hitler's dentist Dr. Hugo Blaschke, to assist in the identification of the body retrieved in Berlin, Germany which was suspected to be that of Hitler's. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 The 20,000-strong German garrison in the Greek islands surrendered. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 German forces on Guernsey surrendered to the British. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 USS Carbonero arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Composite Squadron 63 (VC-63) arrived on board. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 Japanese special attack aircraft damaged two destroyer escorts off Okinawa, Japan and two British carriers (Victorious and Formidable) off Taiwan. On land, the Americans still engaged in vicious close quarter fighting on Okinawa. The Japanese defenders resorted to turning themselves into human bombs, loading themselves with explosives to charge US positions; prisoners were a rarity as the US Marines fired on anything that moved. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 German forces on Jersey surrendered to the British. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 Armeegruppe Kurland surrendered in Latvia. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 Victory was celebrated in Moscow, Russia where two million people watched a parade and firework display. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 Alexander Löhr surrendered to Yugolsavian partisans at Topolsica in the Slovenia region of Yugoslavia. On the same day, he was mentioned in the German Wehrmachtbericht daily radio report. 
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10 May 1945 WW2 Soviet troops regain control of Prague, Czechoslovakia, ending the 5-day uprising. 
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10 May 1945 WW2 U-977 surfaced near Holsenöy Island, Bergen, Norway to release 16 of the crewmen who wished to return home to their families. She then headed for Argentina. 
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10 May 1945 WW2 Konrad Henlein passed away. 
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10 May 1945 WW2 US Navy aircraft attacked Japanese shipping off Korea. 
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10 May 1945 WW2 Norwegian collaborator Vidkun Quisling was arrested. 
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10 May 1945 WW2 Operation Kikusui No. 6 was launched off Okinawa, Japan, participated by about 70 Japanese Navy and 80 Japanese Army special attack and escorting aircraft. 
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10 May 1945 WW2 Heinrich Hoffmann was arrested by the Americans. 
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10 May 1945 WW2 Commander Keiji Koeu was named the commanding officer of destroyer Yukikaze. 
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10 May 1945 WW2 USS Miami departed Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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10 May 1945 WW2 The German garrison in Dunkerque, France surrendered to a Czechoslovak armoured brigade, two days after the surrender of the main German army in its homeland. 
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10 May 1945 WW2 The surrender of Germany officially took effect at 0001 hours on this date. 
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10 May 1945 WW2 Harold Watson flew a captured Ju 290 aircraft from München-Riem airport in southern Germany to another airfield near Nürnberg, Germany. 
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10 May 1945 WW2 Jürgen Stroop surrendered to US troops in he village of Rottau in the Bavarian region of Germany under a false identity. 
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10 May 1945 WW2 The German resistance on the Hel Peninsula across the bay from Danzig, Germany (now Gdansk, Poland) ceased. 
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10 May 1945 WW2 Vice Admiral Kiyohide Shima was named the commanding officer of Takao Guard District in southern Taiwan. 
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10 May 1945 WW2 Manhattan Project Target Committee met at Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States to compile a list of potential atomic weapon targets in Japan. 
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11 May 1945 WW2 Kiyoshi Ogawa passed away. 
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11 May 1945 WW2 Various German units in Czechoslovakia, Dunkirk in France, and the Aegean Sea islands surrendered. 
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11 May 1945 WW2 USS Bunker Hill was hit by two Japanese special attack aircraft off Okinawa, Japan, killing 373. 
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11 May 1945 WW2 A Japanese Navy Ohka combat sortie by 4 G4M bombers off Okinawa, Japan heavily damaged American destroyer USS Hugh W. Hadley. On the island, US troops launched an offensive toward Naha. 
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11 May 1945 WW2 92 American B-29 bombers attacked the Kawanishi aircraft factories near Kobe, Japan. 
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11 May 1945 WW2 The Australians launched their final assault on the last Japanese strongpoint on the northern coast of Wewak, New Guinea. Cut off from support and defending a backwater that had been by-passed in the Pacific War, the Japanese nevertheless fought on fanatically until the 23 May when the surviving sick, starving and broken force retreated into the mountains. 
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11 May 1945 WW2 The Target Committee of the Manhattan Project, led by Robert Oppenheimer, decided the best targets of the atomic bomb were Kyoto, Niigata, Hiroshima, Yokohama, and Kokura. 
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11 May 1945 WW2 German President Karl Dönitz ordered all promotions and awards to cease. 
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11 May 1945 WW2 Submarine I-369 departed Woleai, Caroline Islands with 60 evacuees and 2 boxes of ashes of killed servicemen. 
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11 May 1945 WW2 The Soviet Prague Strategic Offensive in Czechoslovakia concluded. On the same day, SMERSH agents arrested many Russian émigrés in Prague; in 2003, the Czech government would name this day "the day of the destruction of Russian intellectuals". 
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11 May 1945 WW2 Military medical doctor Lieutenant Colonel Faust Shkaravsky of Soviet 1st Byelorussian Front concluded that one of the two bodies Soviet SMERSH agents retrieved near the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany was that of Adolf Hitler's. 
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11 May 1945 WW2 Soviet counterintelligence official Pavel Meshik reported to the Soviet high command in Berlin, Germany that Soviet discipline was poor, and that lootings and rapings continued to occur in and around the German capital. 
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11 May 1945 WW2 USS Shamrock Bay departed waters off Okinawa, Japan, sailing for Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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11 May 1945 WW2 Fumihiro Mitsuyama (born Tak Kyonghyong), flying a Ki-43 aircraft, died in battle off Okinawa, Japan as a special attack pilot. 
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11 May 1945 WW2 Four PV-1 aircraft of US Navy VPB-137 squadron attacked Kagi butanol plant, Taiwan. 
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11 May 1945 WW2 US aircraft based in the Philippine Islands attacked the town of Koshun, Takao Prefecture, Taiwan. 
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11 May 1945 WW2 Sergeant Jack Hinton of New Zealand 2nd Division received the Victoria Cross from King George VI at the Buckingham Palace in London, England, United Kingdom for bravery exhibited while fighting in Kalamata, Greece on 28 Apr 1941. 
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12 May 1945 WW2 George Patton launched Operation Cowboy in Hostau, Czechoslovakia, rescuing 1,200 horses, including 375 of the Lipizzan breed, from potential Soviet slaughter. 
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12 May 1945 WW2 German troops on Crete, Greece surrendered. 
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12 May 1945 WW2 General Andrey Vlasov was turned over to the Red Army after being captured by the Americans. 
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12 May 1945 WW2 British troops landed at St Hélier in Jersey, Channel Islands. 
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12 May 1945 WW2 US Army troops landed on Torishima, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. 
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12 May 1945 WW2 Australian Corporal John Mackey destroyed three machine gun nests at Tarakan, Borneo, that had been holding up his comrades. Many Japanese were killed or forced to retreat, but Corporal Mackey would pay the ultimate price for his bravery. Posthumously he was awarded the Victoria Cross. 
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12 May 1945 WW2 Alfred Ernest Snow was name the British Military Administrator of the Channel Islands. 
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12 May 1945 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Kure, Japan. 
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12 May 1945 WW2 Japanese special attack aircraft damaged USS New Mexico off Okinawa, Japan. Nearby, USS Wichita was damaged by friendly fire. 
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12 May 1945 WW2 Allied convoy JW-67 departed Clyde, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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12 May 1945 WW2 Joseph Rochefort reported to Admiral Ernest King's office on the situation of Japanese war materials, noting, among other things, that Japan had nearly depleted its supply of coal while aluminum and oil stockpiles were running low. 
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13 May 1945 WW2 The Red Army eliminated the last pockets of German resistance in Czechoslovakia. 
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13 May 1945 WW2 Gurkha Rifleman Lachhiman Gurung and two comrades manning a forward observation post ar Taungdaw, Burma, were attacked by more than 200 Japanese. Twice Gurung threw back grenades that were lobbed into their trench but a third went off in his hand blowing away his fingers, shattering his arm and causing other severe wounds to his body. His two comrades were also badly injured. Nevertheless, Gurung fought on, loading his rifle with his good left hand and propping the gun against the parapet to take aim. He held off the enemy for four hours, inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy. For his outstanding bravery, Gurung was awarded the Victoria Cross. 
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13 May 1945 WW2 USS Baya attacked a Japanese convoy in the South China Sea, sinking three ships, hitting them with 7 of 10 torpedoes fired. 
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13 May 1945 WW2 USS Cero sank a Japanese transport east of Japan, hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes fired. 
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13 May 1945 WW2 US Navy carrier aircraft attacked airfields at Kyushu, Japan in an attempt to stop or slow to launch of Japanese special attack missions. 
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13 May 1945 WW2 The British Royal Family and Allied military leaders attended a thanks-giving service at St. Paul's Cathedral, London, England, United Kingdom. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 The Austrian Republic was reformed, free of German influence, and the Anschluss was declared null and void. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 Heligoland Island, Germany was occupied by British troops. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 The Norwegian resistance group Milorg was formally dissolved. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 Japanese special attack aircraft damaged USS Enterprise off Okinawa, Japan. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 Australian troops landed on Borneo. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 472 American B-29 bombers conducted a raid on Nagoya, Japan as part of the first of two days of saturation bombing on Japanese cities. The Americans would drop 16,000 tons of napalm and oil bombs during the campaign; vast areas were burned out but 77 B-29 bombers failed to return. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 Adolf Galland was captured by the US Army. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 Alan Brooke reprimanded Oliver Leese for his intention to dismiss William Slim. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 USS Chub departed Fremantle, Australia for her second war patrol. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 Chinese guerrilla fighters (who had been trained by the staff of Sino-American Special Technical Cooperative Organization (SACO) Camp Four) under the tactical command of US Navy officer Donald Wilcox attacked a Japanese armored force 130 miles south of Xamba, Suiyuan Province, China. The attackers made use of a unusual weapon, a horse-mounted bazooka. They killed 60 Japanese soldiers and destroyed 2 tanks, while suffering 2 killed. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 USS Tunny departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her ninth war patrol. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Maizuru, Japan. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 USS Alabama shot down two of the several Japanese aircraft that attempted to attack US warships; she also shared credit with anti-aircraft crews of other ships for the downing two other aircraft during the attack. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 USS Springer's crew observed a dogfight between a Japanese fighter and four US fighters; after seeing the Japanese fighter fall into the water, the crew recovered the body of the dead Japanese pilot, retrieved papers for intelligence, and gave the piot a proper sea burial. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 Two PV-1 aircraft of US Navy squadron VPB-137 from Clark Field in the Philippine Islands conducted a reconnaissance mission over Taiwan, two of which fired eight and six 5-inch rockets, respectively, at the Ujitsu sugar plant, which was misidentified as a Butanol plant, in Ujitsu (now Wuri). The facility was hit by eight of the rockets and suffered some damage. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 Two PV-1 aircraft of US Navy squadron VPB-137 from Clark Field in the Philippine Islands conducted a reconnaissance mission over Taiwan, one of which dropped three 250-pound bombs on a pair of bridges over Daito River (now Dadu River) in Shoka (now Changhua); both bombs missed. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 British Admiral Sir Max Horton (Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches) formally accepted the surrender of a token force of eight U-boats at Londonderry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. The U-boats which had been escorted from Loch Alsh, Scotland, United Kingdom by destroyer HMS Hesperus, Canadian Frigate Thetford Mines, and USS Paine had their torpedoes and two-thirds of their crew removed before their journey up the Foyle. The German crews were mostly very young men. Some were sullen and many were arrogant but the morale among the officers was unbroken. They were convinced that Hitler had died in action and their first question was "When do we start fighting the Russians?" One or two were so convinced that war with Russia was imminent that they had retained their confidential books and secret equipment to be ready when the war faced east. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 USS Rock arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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14 May 1945 WW2 William Donovan met with the new US President Harry Truman at the White House in Washington DC, United States. Truman only granted him 15 minutes as he did not value the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). 
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15 May 1945 WW2 USS Sargent Bay departed Okinawa and arrived at Guam for repairs. 
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15 May 1945 WW2 Croatian troops that surrendered to British forces in Austria were handed over to Yugoslavian partisans, resulting in the murder of over 110,000, including women and children. 
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15 May 1945 WW2 British destroyer forces sank the Japanese cruiser Haguro in the Malacca Strait off the Malay Peninsula. 
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15 May 1945 WW2 In fighting at Wewak, New Guinea, Australian Private Ted Kenna exposed himself to Japanese machine guns only 50 yards away, thus enabling his comrades to capture the position without further casualties. His rash bravery won him the Victoria Cross. 
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15 May 1945 WW2 USS Croaker departed Subic Bay, Philippine Islands for her fifth war patrol in the Java Sea. 
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15 May 1945 WW2 Otto Skorzeny requested the local American officers a staff car, in which he would travel to the Americans field headquarters to surrender. As a prisoner, he was taken to Salzburg, Austria in an armored car with a heavy escort. 
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15 May 1945 WW2 USS Ray rescued 10 airmen of a foundering PBM Mariner aircraft south of Kyushu, Japan. 
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15 May 1945 WW2 Nobutake Kondo was appointed to the Japanese Supreme War Council. 
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15 May 1945 WW2 Soviet SMERSH captured former German intelligence official and more recently commanding officer of German 81st Infantry Division Franz-Eccard von Bentivegni in the Courland Pocket in Latvia. Bentivegni would remain imprisoned in Russia until Oct 1955. 
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15 May 1945 WW2 Crown Prince Olaf of Norway returned to Oslo in a Royal Navy destroyer and was greeted by a large crowd. 
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15 May 1945 WW2 Viktor Abakumov appointed Isai Babich and Aleksandr Misyurev to head the SMERSH units attached to the Far Eastern Group of Soviet Troops. 
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15 May 1945 WW2 US B-24 bombers based in the Philippine Islands struck the city of Shinchiku (now Hsinchu), Taiwan. 
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15 May 1945 WW2 USS Saint Paul departed Boston, Massachusetts, United States. 
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15 May 1945 WW2 Alexander Löhr's war crimes trial in Belgrade, Yugoslavia began. 
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16 May 1945 WW2 Alderney of the Channel Islands was reoccupied by British troops; the garrison of 3,200 German troops became prisoners of war. 
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16 May 1945 WW2 Aircraft from escort carrier HMS Emperor attacked Japanese cruiser Haguro at the entrance of the Malacca Strait. 
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16 May 1945 WW2 USS Segundo departed for her fourth war patrol. 
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16 May 1945 WW2 After not responding to communications since 9 Apr 1945, USS Snook was presumed lost. 
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16 May 1945 WW2 USS Hawkbill arrived off British Malaya to serve on lifeguard station. 
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16 May 1945 WW2 US Army Colonel Albert Caswell Metts, Jr. assisted the five daughters of Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, who had been liberated from Dachau Concentration Camp by the American army, to return to Luxembourg. 
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16 May 1945 WW2 William Slim and Aung San met at Meiktila, Burma; Slim later noted that although Aung San had an anti-British history, he was a promising candidate to lead Burma after the war. 
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16 May 1945 WW2 Exiled Czechoslovakian President Eduard Beneš returned to Prague, Czechoslovakia to a rapturous welcome. 
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16 May 1945 WW2 USS Sennet arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her third war patrol. 
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16 May 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Inspection of engine overhaul facilities by Vice Admiral JH Newton, USN; Commodore HE Overesh, USN; Captain RE Farnsworth, USN; Commander GC Briant, USNR; Captain EA Tarbutton, USN. 
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16 May 1945 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Maizuru, Japan. 
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16 May 1945 WW2 USS Boarfish departed Subic Bay, Philippine Islands for her third war patrol. 
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16 May 1945 WW2 The Kukutsu Prisoners of War Camp in northern Taiwan was opened. 
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17 May 1945 WW2 470 American B-29 bombers conducted a raid on Nagoya, Japan. 
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17 May 1945 WW2 P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft began to arrive at Ie Shima, Japan. They would start operating against the Japanese home islands on the following day. 
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17 May 1945 WW2 US Navy carrier aircraft attacked Maloelap Atoll, Marshall Islands. 
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17 May 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Single day maximum of catapult launches (22). 
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17 May 1945 WW2 USS Miami arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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17 May 1945 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Sasebo, Japan. 
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17 May 1945 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze departed Kure, Japan. 
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17 May 1945 WW2 In Japan, after a vicious 48-hour battle the Okinawan capital, Naha, was captured by the Americans. 
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17 May 1945 WW2 Yukio Araki and the 72nd Shinbu Squadron arrived at Metabaru Airfield in Saga Prefecture, Japan. 
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17 May 1945 WW2 Air Group 87 aircraft from USS Ticonderoga struck Taroa, Marshall Islands. 
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17 May 1945 WW2 Mexican 201st Expeditionary Squadron with P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft began operations from Clark Field in the Philippine Islands. 
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17 May 1945 WW2 B-24 bombers of US 380th Bomb Group attacked Matsuyama Airfield in Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan. 
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18 May 1945 WW2 Specially-modified American B-29 bombers arrived at Tinian, Mariana Islands in preparation of future atomic bomb missions. 
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18 May 1945 WW2 Destroyer USS Longshaw, stuck on a reef, was sunk by Japanese shore battery at Okinawa, Japan. 
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18 May 1945 WW2 King George VI of the United Kingdom awarded Philip Gardner a Victoria Cross for his daring rescue of comrades at Tobruk, Libya on 23 Nov 1941. 
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18 May 1945 WW2 USS Missouri arrived at Apra Harbor, Guam, Mariana Islands. In the afternoon, she became the flagship of Admiral William Halsey of the US Navy 3rd Fleet. 
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18 May 1945 WW2 Captain Keiji Furutani was named the commanding officer of light carrier Hosho. 
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18 May 1945 WW2 Marshal Tito, in negotiations with British and US representatives over disputed territory, claimed to have the right to add Trieste to Yugoslav territory, and refused to leave the area. 
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18 May 1945 WW2 German Field Marshal Ferdinand Schörner was captured by Americans in Austria. 
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18 May 1945 WW2 USS Flying Fish arrived at Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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18 May 1945 WW2 USS Springer arrived at Guam, ending her second war patrol. 
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18 May 1945 WW2 P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft based in Ie Shima near Okinawa attacked airfields on Kyushu, Japan. 
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18 May 1945 WW2 USS Segundo encountered two bodies floating in the water in the East China Sea; her crew identified them to be one American and one Japanese. 
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18 May 1945 WW2 USS Bergall damaged a small Japanese vessel with her deck gun in the South China Sea. 
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18 May 1945 WW2 US Navy gave the firm North American Aviation a contract for three XP-86 prototype jet fighters. 
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19 May 1945 WW2 French troops landed in Syria and Lebanon. Arab nationalists launched protest demonstrations against the landing. 
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19 May 1945 WW2 Alfred Rosenberg was captured at Flensburg, Germany. 
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19 May 1945 WW2 Stalin denied that his troops had been arresting Polish leaders for political reasons. 
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19 May 1945 WW2 US 43rd Division secured the Ipoh dam area north of Manila, Luzon, Philippine Islands. US 25th Division began mopping up operations at Santa, Romblon, Philippine Islands. 
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19 May 1945 WW2 US 77th Division withdrew near the Ishimmi Ridge at Okinawa, Japan after suffering heavy casualties. 
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19 May 1945 WW2 272 B-29 Superfortress bombers struck Hamamatsu, Japan. 
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19 May 1945 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze arrived at Maizuru, Japan. 
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19 May 1945 WW2 USS Ray attacked a three-ship Japanese convoy west of Japan, missing with all three torpedoes fired. The Japanese freighters, actually armed Q-ships, fought back with depth charges, forcing Ray to surface. Ray was able to escape on the surface, deck gun firing to discourage pursuit. She claimed that one of the Q-ships were sunk by gunfire. 
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19 May 1945 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Sasebo, Japan. 
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20 May 1945 WW2 Japanese troops began pulling out of China. 
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20 May 1945 WW2 American troops reached Shuri Castle, Okinawa, Japan. 
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20 May 1945 WW2 Canadian troops landed on the island of Texel off the Dutch coast. 
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20 May 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island completed her repairs at Apra Harbor, Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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20 May 1945 WW2 Claude Auchinleck had lunch with Winston Churchill, during which Auchinleck noted to Churchill that William Slim was among the best generals in the British Army and recommended the appointment of Slim to succeed him as Commander-in-Chief, India. 
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20 May 1945 WW2 USS Chub attacked a Japanese convoy in the Java Sea, sinking a transport with one of four torpedoes fired. 
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20 May 1945 WW2 USS Ray sank a Japanese patrol vessel west of Japan with her deck gun. 
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20 May 1945 WW2 USS Cero sank a Japanese trawler east of Japan, hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes fired. 
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20 May 1945 WW2 Captain J. E. Leeper was named the commanding officer of USS Shamrock Bay, relieving Captain Frank T. Ward, Jr, while the ship was at Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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20 May 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Composite Squadron 63 (VC-63) departed. 
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20 May 1945 WW2 Pilots of Japanese Navy 631st Naval Air Group were officially assigned to individual submarines of Submarine Squadron 1. 
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20 May 1945 WW2 Allied convoy JW-67 arrived at the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. 
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20 May 1945 WW2 USS Tirante departed Midway for her second war patrol. 
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20 May 1945 WW2 USS Puffer departed Midway Atoll for her eighth war patrol. 
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21 May 1945 WW2 Heinrich Himmler was arrested by British troops near Bremen, Germany as he attempted to disguise himself as refugee "Heinrich Hitzinger" and flee with the masses. 
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21 May 1945 WW2 Japanese traditional and special attacks damaged five Allied ships off Okinawa, Japan. 
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21 May 1945 WW2 USS Charr arrived at the naval base at Subic Bay, Luzon, Philippine Islands, ending her second war patrol. 
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21 May 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island departed Guam, Mariana Islands for Okinawa, Japan. 
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21 May 1945 WW2 USS Missouri departed Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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21 May 1945 WW2 USS Chub sank a Japanese ship in the Java Sea, hitting her with one of five torpedoes fired. 
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21 May 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Carrier Air Group 91 (CVG-91) departed. Escort Carrier Air Group 33 (CVEG-33) arrived on board. 
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21 May 1945 WW2 Prince Kotohito passed away in Odawara, Kanagawa, Japan. 
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21 May 1945 WW2 USS Hackleback departed Midway Atoll for her second war patrol. 
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22 May 1945 WW2 Field Marshall Montgomery was designated as commander of British occupation troops, as well as a British member of the Allied Control Commission in Germany. 
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22 May 1945 WW2 The British Government announced further reductions in rations. Bacon was reduced to three ounces per person per week, cooking fat to one ounce and meat to 106-lb per person per year, and the soap ration was also reduced for all but babies and young children. 
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22 May 1945 WW2 Torrential rain reduced mobility of US armoured forces on Okinawa, Japan and gave the Japanese defenders a temporary respite. 
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22 May 1945 WW2 USS Becuna departed for her fourth war patrol on lifeguard station for carrier air crews. 
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22 May 1945 WW2 Viktor Abakumov complained to Lavrentiy Beria of NKVD official Ivan Serov's interference with the SMERSH investigation of Adolf Hitler's final days. 
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22 May 1945 WW2 Lavrentiy Beria received a report from Soviet NKVD official Ivan Serov regarding Adolf Hitler's final days. 
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22 May 1945 WW2 USS Ticonderoga arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands and joined Task Group 58.4. 
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22 May 1945 WW2 Soviet SMERSH captured German SS Lieutenant General Bruno Streckenbach in Latvia. He would remain imprisoned in Russia until Oct 1955. 
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22 May 1945 WW2 USS Marcus Island arrived at San Diego, California, United States. 
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23 May 1945 WW2 USS Sargent Bay completed repairs and arrived in Okinawa. 
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23 May 1945 WW2 Himmler committed suicide at Lüneburg, Germany. 
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23 May 1945 WW2 Members of the German High Command and the Provisional Government were taken into custody and imprisoned. 
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23 May 1945 WW2 The Allies dissolved Karl Dönitz's government. 
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23 May 1945 WW2 USS Ray sank 4 small Japanese vessels west of Japan with her deck gun. 
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23 May 1945 WW2 525 American B-29 bombers conducted a raid on Tokyo, Japan. 
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23 May 1945 WW2 Allied convoy RA-67, the last outgoing Allied arctic convoy, departed the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. 
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23 May 1945 WW2 In Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom, British Prime Minister Churchill resigned and formed a caretaker administration in which the Labour Party refused to serve. 
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24 May 1945 WW2 The Allies began exchanging the prisoners of war they had freed in Germany. 
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24 May 1945 WW2 Operation Kikusui No. 7 was launched off Okinawa, Japan, participated by about 65 Japanese Navy and 100 Japanese Army special attack and escorting aircraft. On the island, seven Type 97 bombers attempted to crash-land at an American-controlled airfield to deliver suicide commandos during Operation Gi; several aircraft were shot down, but those who successfully reached the airfield delivered 69 commandos who destroyed 9 aircraft and damaged 29 others and set the fuel dump aflame; all commandos were killed or committed suicide. 
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24 May 1945 WW2 USS Pompon arrived at Guam, Mariana Islands, ending her eighth war patrol. 
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24 May 1945 WW2 USS Ray sank 2 small Japanese vessels west of Japan with her deck gun. 
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24 May 1945 WW2 At Salzburg, Austria, Field Marshal Robert Ritter von Greim, head of the Luftwaffe, committed suicide in American captivity. Having learnt that he was to be a part of a Soviet-American prisoner exchange and, fearing torture and execution at the hands of the Russians, he took cyanide. His final words were: "I am the head of the Luftwaffe, but have no Luftwaffe." 
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24 May 1945 WW2 USS Ticonderoga departed Ulithi, Caroline Islands with other ships of Task Group 58.4. 
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24 May 1945 WW2 Aircraft of US Navy Task Force 58 attacked airfields in southern Kyushu, Japan while 520 US Army B-29 bombers attacked urban and industrial areas south of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. 
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24 May 1945 WW2 Submarine I-369 arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. 
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24 May 1945 WW2 Joseph Stilwell arrived in Manila, Philippine Islands. 
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24 May 1945 WW2 USS Miami arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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25 May 1945 WW2 USS Blenny reported sinking a small Japanese craft with torpedoes. 
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25 May 1945 WW2 Operation Olympic, the invasion of Japan, was approved by the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, setting the date at 1 Nov 1945. 
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25 May 1945 WW2 Japanese special attack aircraft sank destroyer USS Bates and damaged several other ships off Okinawa, Japan. Part of these attacks included an Ohka combat sortie by 11 G4M bombers, most of which were turned back due to poor weather while the few that launched their Ohka weapons reported no hits. 
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25 May 1945 WW2 Australian Private Leslie Starcevitch won the Victoria Cross during the capture of Beaufort, North Borneo by destroying a series of Japanese bunkers that had been holding up the Australian advance. 
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25 May 1945 WW2 Submarine I-369 was taken out of commission for conversion into an aviation gasoline submarine-transport. 
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25 May 1945 WW2 Bataan (Tribal-class) was commissioned into service. 
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25 May 1945 WW2 The destroyer escort USS Bates was sunk by a Japanese special attack aircraft off Okinawa, Japan. 
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25 May 1945 WW2 The Japanese Navy reorganized the 3rd Air Fleet (now with 13th, 25th, and 27th Air Flotillas) and the 5th Air Fleet (now with 12th and 72nd Air Flotillas and 13 air groups). 
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25 May 1945 WW2 USS Iowa arrived off Kyushu, Japan. 
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25 May 1945 WW2 USS Ray sank 2 small Japanese vessels west of Japan with her deck gun. 
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25 May 1945 WW2 USS Parche began her sixth war patrol, the first half of which would be on lifeguard station south of Japan. 
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25 May 1945 WW2 464 American B-29 bombers conducted a raid on Tokyo, Japan. 26 aircraft were lost, which was the highest one-day loss. 
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25 May 1945 WW2 Yukio Araki and the 72nd Shinbu Squadron was relocated to Bansei Airfield, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. 
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26 May 1945 WW2 USS Ray sank 3 small Japanese vessels west of Japan with her deck gun. 
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26 May 1945 WW2 German Field Marshal Ferdinand Schörner, previously captured by the Americans in southern Germany, was turned over to Soviet SMERSH agents. 
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26 May 1945 WW2 USS Carbonero departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. She would for the most part remain on lifeguard station off the island of Taiwan on the Chinese coast. 
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26 May 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Carrier Night Air Group 52 (CVGN-52) arrived on board. 
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27 May 1945 WW2 Operation Kikusui No. 8 was launched off Okinawa, Japan, participated by about 60 Japanese Navy and 50 Japanese Army special attack and escorting aircraft; together with manned torpedoes, these special attacks damaged 5 destroyers and 6 other ships in the area. 
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27 May 1945 WW2 USS Guitarro arrived at Saipan, Mariana Islands. 
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27 May 1945 WW2 USS Missouri bombarded Japanese positions on Okinawa, Japan. 
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27 May 1945 WW2 USS Ray sank 3 small Japanese vessels west of Japan with her deck gun. 
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27 May 1945 WW2 US 101st Airborne Division Master Sergeant Charles Dickey discovered Heinrich Himmler's emergency cash in Himmler's family barn in Bayern (Bavaria) in southern Germany. It consisted of currencies of 26 nations worth a total of US$4,000,000. 
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27 May 1945 WW2 USS Cero arrived at Guam, Mariana Islands, ending her seventh war patrol. 
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27 May 1945 WW2 Japanese submarines I-13 and I-14 departed Kure, Japan for Chinkai, Korea. They came under attack in the Straits of Shimonoseki later in the day, but escaped unscathed. 
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27 May 1945 WW2 USS Boarfish intercepted a two-masted junk in the Java Sea; the search party sent aboard found nothing suspicious and allowed the ship to leave. 
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27 May 1945 WW2 Corporal Yukio Araki died as a special attack pilot. His Ki-51 aircraft might be one of the two aircraft which crashed into destroyer USS Braine off Okinawa, Japan. 
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27 May 1945 WW2 US B-25 bombers and fighters based in the Philippine Islands attacked Koshun Airfield, Takao Prefecture, Taiwan. 
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28 May 1945 WW2 Japanese air offensive sank destroyer USS Drexler and damaged several other ships off Okinawa, Japan. 
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28 May 1945 WW2 American-born William Joyce, the German propagandist whose radio broadcasts to Britain during the war had earned him the nickname "Lord Haw-Haw", was captured by British troops. He was to be hanged as a traitor in 1946, and was to be the last person to be executed in Britain for an act of treason. 
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28 May 1945 WW2 The British Admiralty ended the convoy system in the Atlantic Ocean. 
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28 May 1945 WW2 USS Tunny departed Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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28 May 1945 WW2 USS Guitarro departed Saipan, Mariana Islands. 
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28 May 1945 WW2 Light carrier Hosho was camouflaged at Nishinomishima, Japan. 
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28 May 1945 WW2 USS Ray sank 3 small Japanese vessels west of Japan with her deck gun. 
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28 May 1945 WW2 USS Shamrock Bay departed Apra Harbor, Guam, Mariana Islands with US Navy squadron VC-96 on board. 
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28 May 1945 WW2 USS Manta departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. 
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28 May 1945 WW2 USS Gabilan arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her fifth war patrol. 
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29 May 1945 WW2 USS Cod arrived at Guam, Mariana Islands for refitting, ending her sixth war patrol. 
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29 May 1945 WW2 Jisaburo Ozawa was named the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet. 
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29 May 1945 WW2 US 10th Army captured Shuri Castle at Okinawa, Japan. Off the coast, Japanese special attack aircraft damaged 2 destroyers. 
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29 May 1945 WW2 Vasily Chuikov was awarded the Order of Suvorov 1st Class for the third time. 
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29 May 1945 WW2 Soviet 2nd Byelorussian Front was renamed Northern Group of Military Forces, or SGV. Konstantin Rokossovsky remained the commanding officer of the group. 
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29 May 1945 WW2 USS Bluegill landed US and Australian personnel on Pratas of the Pratas Islands (Chinese: Dongsha Islands) in the South China Sea and destroyed the Japanese radio tower, weather station, fuel, ammunition dump, and several buildings. The operation was unopposed as the Japanese had already abandoned the island. 
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29 May 1945 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Jakarta, Java. 
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29 May 1945 WW2 USS Flying Fish departed Guam, Mariana Islands for her twelfth war patrol. 
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29 May 1945 WW2 American B-25 bombers from Okinawa conducted a raid on Tokyo, Japan, while 454 B-29 bombers (escorted by 101 P-51 fighters) firebombed Yokohama, Japan. 
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29 May 1945 WW2 Japanese pilto Second Lieutenant Kiyoharu Kawada (Roh Yong-U) rammed his Ki-45 Toryu heavy fighter into an attacking US B-29 Superfortress bomber (serial 42-24894) over Oi River, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, destroying the bomber but also sacrificing himself. 
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29 May 1945 WW2 USS Sterlet attacked a Japanese convoy east of the southern tip of Karafuto, Japan (now Sakhalin, Russia), sinking a freighter and damaging another, hitting them with four of six torpedoes. As the escort vessels counterattacked, she fired three salvos of four, three, and then four torpedoes at them, all of which missed, but she was able to escape from the counterattack. 
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29 May 1945 WW2 USS Segundo encountered several vessels in the East China Sea; she seven two-masted schooners her crew identified as Japanese with the deck gun. 
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29 May 1945 WW2 USS Boarfish attacked a Japanese convoy in the Java Sea between Sumatra and Java with four torpedoes and observed at least one explosion against an oiler; she was severely damaged in the subsequent depth charge counterattack, but she would be able to set sail for home. 
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29 May 1945 WW2 The BI-7 rocket-powered prototype aircraft underwent a unpowered glider test at Khimki near Moscow, Russia. 
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29 May 1945 WW2 14 of the 25 captured US Army and US Navy airmen imprisoned at the Taihoku Prison in Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan were sentenced to death by firing squad; the execution was to be carried out on 19 Jun 1945 
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29 May 1945 WW2 100 American B-24 bombers conducted a raid on Taiwan. 
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30 May 1945 WW2 USS Blenny reported sinking a small Japanese craft with the deck gun in the morning and a transport with torpedoes in the afternoon. 
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30 May 1945 WW2 US P-47 aircraft from Ie Shima attacked Japanese shipping and the lighthouse at Amami Oshima, which was part of the Ryukyu Islands north of Okinawa, Japan. 
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30 May 1945 WW2 USS Croaker attacked a small Japanese convoy consisted of three small oilers and an armed escort; firing a total of 21 torpedoes, 3 of them made contact, and she claimed to have sunk two oilers and the escort vessel, but the sinkings were not confirmed. 
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30 May 1945 WW2 USS Chub attacked a Japanese convoy in the Java Sea; both torpedoes missed. 
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30 May 1945 WW2 USS Ray sank a small Japanese patrol vessel west of Japan with her deck gun. 
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30 May 1945 WW2 The remainder of General Seiei Yamamoto's troops in Burma was effectively wiped out. 
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30 May 1945 WW2 French guns shelled the centre of Damascus in Syria-Lebanon, damaging the Syrian government building and Government House. In addition there was much street fighting between French and Syrian troops. That evening General Charles de Gaulle ordered a cease fire; some hours prior Winston Churchill sent him a note demanding an immediate French cease fire and return to barracks. 
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30 May 1945 WW2 USS Bergall attacked a group of small Japanese vessels in the Gulf of Thailand with her deck gun, sinking seven. 
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30 May 1945 WW2 Allied convoy RA-67, the last returning Allied arctic convoy, arrived at Clyde, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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31 May 1945 WW2 USS Cassin Young arrived at Okinawa, Japan. 
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31 May 1945 WW2 USS Segundo sank a four-masted sail ship with two torpedoes. 
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31 May 1945 WW2 12 M26 Pershing heavy tanks departed the United States board a cargo ship for Okinawa, Japan. They would arrive too late to see combat. 
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31 May 1945 WW2 Chiang Kaishek stepped down as the Premier of the Republic of China. 
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31 May 1945 WW2 Soviet SMERSH captured German intelligence officer Erwin Stolze in Berlin, Germany in civilian clothing. 
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31 May 1945 WW2 117 B-24 bombers of US 15th Air Force attacked Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan between 1000 and 1300 hours nearly without stop, dropping about 3,800 bombs. US air crews reported minimal Japanese fighter defense. Taihoku General Government Building suffered a direct hit, rendering it unusable until after the war. The anti-aircraft position in present day Sanzhong District of New Taipei City, Taihoku General Government building, residence of the Assistant Governor-General, Taihoku Raiway Hotel, Army Headquarters building, Taihoku Imperial University, Taihoku Train Station, Bank of Taiwan, Taihoku High Court, Taihoku Park, Taihoku First Girls' High School, Longshan Temple (main building and left corridor were damaged, destroying many precious artifacts), Penglai Catholic Church (used by civilians as an air raid shelter; it was completely destroyed), Huashan Catholic Church, and many other military, government, and civilian structures were damaged or destroyed. About 3,000 were killed, tens of thousands were made homeless. This was the largest US raid on the city during WW2. 
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01 Jun 1945 WW2 458 American B-29 bombers attacked Osaka harbor, Japan in poor weather. 148 P-51 Mustang fighters flew in escort, and 27 were lost, many due to collisions due to poor visibility. 6 ships were sunk by the attack while another 6 were damaged; many naval mines were also laid in the harbor. 
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01 Jun 1945 WW2 Knowing the fate that would await them at the hands of the Soviets, a pitched battle broke out between British troops and the 28,000 strong Cossack Corps (White Russians who had always opposed the Communists and had been fighting for the Germans), when it was announced that they were to be repatriated to the Russian zone of Austria. Some 700 Cossacks and their families were killed by the British, trampled to death or commit suicide. Almost all the Cossacks who were sent back disappeared without trace. 
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01 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Makin Island departed Okinawa, Japan area for Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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01 Jun 1945 WW2 The Japanese Navy 10th Air Fleet attached to the Combined Fleet was reorganized to contain eight air groups. The 13th Air Fleet attached to the 10th Area Fleet was reorganized to contain one air flotilla and two air groups. 
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01 Jun 1945 WW2 The United States Marine Corps' Supply Service FMFPac, whose responsibilities included ensuring beach logistic supply to hostile shores, was redesignated as Service Command FMFPac to control the scattered island bases and service and supply battalions spread across the Pacific Ocean. 
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01 Jun 1945 WW2 The United States Marine Corps 7th and 8th Field Depots were redesignated as service regiments and reorganized to include headquarters and service, motor transport, and supply and maintenance battalions. 
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01 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Chub gave chase to a Japanese convoy in the Java Sea, firing two spreads of three torpedoes on separate occasions; all torpedoes missed. 
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01 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Sea Robin departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her third war patrol. 
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01 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Pintado departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her fifth war patrol on lifeguard station off Japan. 
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01 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Skipjack departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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01 Jun 1945 WW2 Light carrier Hosho was assigned to the habor defense force at Kure, Japan as a reserve ship, which meant her crew was reduced to half the standard complement size. 
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01 Jun 1945 WW2 I-401 departed Kure, Japan 
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01 Jun 1945 WW2 Japanese submarines I-13 and I-14 arrived at Nanao Bay, Japan. 
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01 Jun 1945 WW2 Georgy Zhukov was made a Hero of the Soviet Union for the third time. 
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02 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Tunny arrived in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. 
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02 Jun 1945 WW2 American carrier aircraft of Task Force 38 attacked airfields in southern Kyushu, Japan. On the same day, 12 Japanese ships were sunk or damaged by naval mines in Japanese waters. 
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02 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island received supplies at Kaika Harbor, Kerama Retto, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. 
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02 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Ray attacked a Japanese transport west of Japan; all 5 torpedoes missed. 
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02 Jun 1945 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Jakarta, Java. 
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02 Jun 1945 WW2 Air Group 87 aircraft from USS Ticonderoga struck airfields on Kyushu, Japan in an attempt to stop special attack aircraft from taking off. 
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02 Jun 1945 WW2 I-400 arrived at Nanao Bay, Japan. 
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02 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Spot departed Saipan, Mariana Islands for her third war patrol. 
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02 Jun 1945 WW2 Two B-25J bombers of 822nd Bomb Squadron, USAAF 38th Bombardment Group attacked the sugar refinery in Suantau, Kagi (now Suantou, Chiayi), Taiwan. 
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03 Jun 1945 WW2 French forces reluctantly left Damascus, French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon, leaving the British in control. 
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03 Jun 1945 WW2 The US began preparing for the transit of 200,000 US troops from Europe to the Pacific via Marseilles, France. 
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03 Jun 1945 WW2 American carrier aircraft of Task Force 38 attacked airfields in southern Kyushu, Japan for the second day in a row. On the same day, 7 Japanese ships were sunk or damaged by naval mines in Japanese waters. 
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03 Jun 1945 WW2 US Marines landed on Iheya Jima, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. 
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03 Jun 1945 WW2 Operation Kikusui No. 9 was launched off Okinawa, Japan, participated by about 20 Japanese Navy and 30 Japanese Army special attack and escorting aircraft. 
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03 Jun 1945 WW2 Air Group 87 aircraft from USS Ticonderoga struck airfields on Kyushu, Japan in an attempt to stop special attack aircraft from taking off. 
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03 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Segundo sank a Japanese sail in the East China Sea with her deck gun. 
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03 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Sterlet fired six torpedoes at a Japanese transport in the Sea of Okhotsk; all torpedoes missed. The transport then revealed herself to be an armed Q-ship, which gave chase to the American submarine. Sterlet was able to escape the counterattack. 
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03 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Macabi departed Balboa, Panama Canal Zone. 
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04 Jun 1945 WW2 The body of Air Chief Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory, who died in an air crash, was found. 
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04 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Tunny arrived off Kyushu, Japan. 
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04 Jun 1945 WW2 Song Ziwen was named the chief of the Executive Yuan; he had been serving in this position in an acting status since Dec 1944. 
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04 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Ray attacked a Japanese transport west of Japan; all 6 torpedoes missed. 
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04 Jun 1945 WW2 I-401 arrived at Nanao Bay, Japan 
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04 Jun 1945 WW2 Japanese submarine I-14 received her full complement of Seiran aircraft while at Nanao, Japan. 
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04 Jun 1945 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Seletar, Singapore. 
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04 Jun 1945 WW2 Semyon Timoshenko was awarded the Order of Victory. 
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05 Jun 1945 WW2 Field Marshal Montgomery and General Eisenhower were awarded the Order of Victory, the Soviet Union's highest award. 
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05 Jun 1945 WW2 473 American B-29 bombers destroyed 11 square kilometers of urban areas at Kobe, Japan. 
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05 Jun 1945 WW2 Brazil declared war on Japan. 
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05 Jun 1945 WW2 More than 30 American ships were damaged by a typhoon near Okinawa, Japan. 
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05 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Tunny passed through the Korea Strait. 
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05 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Croaker arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her fifth war patrol. 
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05 Jun 1945 WW2 The Supreme Commanders of the four occupying powers in Germany signed the Berlin Declaration which formally abolished any German government over the nation. Germany was divided into four zones, each ruled by an occupational government. 
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05 Jun 1945 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Seletar, Singapore. 
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05 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Alabama suffered minor damage from a typhoon. 
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06 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island returned to her front line position off Okinawa, Japan. 
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06 Jun 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 33 arrived. 
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06 Jun 1945 WW2 Japanese Submarine Squadron 1 began joint submarine-seaplane exercises in Nanao Bay, Japan. 
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06 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Capitaine fired four torpedoes at a small Japanese patrol craft in the South China Sea; all torpedoes missed. 
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07 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Sea Cat sank a 400-ton Japanese schooner with her deck gun. 
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07 Jun 1945 WW2 King Haakon returned to Norway on the fifth anniversary of his departure. 
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07 Jun 1945 WW2 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visited the liberated Channel Islands. 
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07 Jun 1945 WW2 400 American B-29 bombers attacked Osaka, Japan. 
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07 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Segundo sank a Japanese ship with her deck gun. 
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07 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Flying Fish entered the Sea of Japan. 
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07 Jun 1945 WW2 The Western Allies made German citizens in their occupation zones watch films about the Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camps. 
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08 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Sea Cat attacked a Japanese merchant ship with two torpedoes, both of which missed their target. 
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08 Jun 1945 WW2 Jozef Tiso was arrested. 
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08 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Missouri bombarded Kyushu, Japan. 
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08 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Boarfish arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her third war patrol. 
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08 Jun 1945 WW2 The fleet minesweeper USS Salute was sunk by a Japanese mine whilst covering landings at Brunei Bay. 
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08 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Guitarro arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her fifth and final war patrol. 
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08 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Saint Paul conducted training operations in waters off Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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08 Jun 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Rear Admiral CP Mason made an inspection of the station. 
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08 Jun 1945 WW2 Air Group 87 aircraft from USS Ticonderoga struck airfields on Kyushu, Japan in an attempt to stop special attack aircraft from taking off. 
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09 Jun 1945 WW2 Japanese Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki announced publicly that Japan would fight on rather than accept unconditional surrender. 
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09 Jun 1945 WW2 The British RAF unveiled the Vampire jet fighter design. 
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09 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Tunny attacked a cargo vessel in the Sea of Japan; the torpedo hit but failed to explode. 
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09 Jun 1945 WW2 277,380 Soviet and Bulgarian personnel were awarded the medal for the capture of Vienna, Ostmark, Germany (occupied Austria). 
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09 Jun 1945 WW2 Captain William Van Hamilton was named the commanding officer of USS Astoria. 
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09 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Wisconsin was designated a training ship for a cruise to Britain, France, and Cuba. 
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09 Jun 1945 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Yulin, Hainan, China and departed on the same day. 
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09 Jun 1945 WW2 Soviet SMERSH agents arrested Russian émigré and liberal political activist Prince Pyotr Dolgorukov in Prague, Czechoslovakia. 
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09 Jun 1945 WW2 Soviet enlisted men were allowed to carry home from Germany whatever they could fit on their persons, the officers on bicycles or motorcycles, and the generals on automobiles. 
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09 Jun 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: A reception was given by the station in honor of Rear Admiral Mason, Commander, Naval Air Bases, Fourteenth Naval District. 
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09 Jun 1945 WW2 Air Group 87 aircraft from USS Ticonderoga struck Okinawa, Japan. 
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09 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Segundo fired three torpedoes at a tug and her tow; all three missed. She then proceeded to sink them with her deck gun. Seeing that the targets fired back, Segundo's officers determined that the tug was likely a Q-ship. 
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09 Jun 1945 WW2 The GUKR SMERSH updated a list of Japanese intelligence personnel and Russian émigré living in northeastern China for arrests when Soviet troops invaded the region. 
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09 Jun 1945 WW2 George Patton and James Doolittle were honored at a parade in Los Angeles, California, United States. 
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10 Jun 1945 WW2 Australian troops landed at Brunei, Borneo and at Bougainville, Solomon Islands. 
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10 Jun 1945 WW2 Montgomery and Eisenhower were decorated with the Order of Victory by Marshal Zhukov in Germany. 
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10 Jun 1945 WW2 The Fletcher-class destroyer USS William D. Porter was sunk by a Japanese special attack aircraft off Okinawa, Japan. 
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10 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Flying Fish sank a Japanese cargo ship off the coast of Korea in the Sea of Japan, hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes fired. 
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10 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Dragonet arrived at Guam, Mariana Islands, ending her second war patrol. 
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10 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Sterlet arrived at Midway, ending her fourth war patrol. 
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10 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Skate sank Japanese submarine I-222 in the Sea of Japan. 
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10 Jun 1945 WW2 N. A. Korolev was made the head of Soviet TsGV Counterintelligence Directorate and Ya. A. Yedunov the head of SGV Counterintelligence Directorate. 
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10 Jun 1945 WW2 George Patton addressed a crowd of 100,000 civilians in Burbank, California, United States. 
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11 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Crevalle sank Hakusan Maru. 
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11 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Tirante attacked a Japanese freighter and claimed a kill; this sinking was not confirmed. 
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11 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Caiman sank two Japanese schooners by gunfire in the southern South China Sea. 
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11 Jun 1945 WW2 Czechoslovakian police and civilians continued to drive ethnic Germans out of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. 
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11 Jun 1945 WW2 James Franck and other Metallurgical Laboratory scientists issued the Franck Report, arguing for a demonstration of an atomic bomb before using it against an enemy target. 
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11 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Segundo sank Fukui Maru with 3 of 7 torpedoes fired. 
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11 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Flying Fish sank a Japanese transport off the coast of Korea in the Sea of Japan, hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes fired. 
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11 Jun 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 6 departed. 
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11 Jun 1945 WW2 US aircraft attacked neutral Portuguese Macau. 
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12 Jun 1945 WW2 With Japanese troops hopelessly surrounded in the Oroku sector of Okinawa, Japan requested a ceasefire to allow them to commit suicide rather than surrender. Hundreds blew themselves up with grenades or jumped off cliffs. 
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12 Jun 1945 WW2 Dwight Eisenhower received the Freedom of the City of London of England, United Kingdom and the Order of Merit from the French. 
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12 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Tunny patrolled immediately off the coast of Etomo Ko, Honshu, Japan. She was detected by search lights and withdrew out to sea. 
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12 Jun 1945 WW2 The Oka Prisoners of War Camp in northern Taiwan was opened. 
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12 Jun 1945 WW2 Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Anderson announced the creation of the Arts Council of Great Britain to succeed the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts. 
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13 Jun 1945 WW2 Minoru Ota passed away. 
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13 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Iowa departed waters off Kyushu, Japan for waters off northern Japan. 
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13 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Missouri bombarded Japanese positions on Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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13 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Flying Fish attacked a Japanese transport in the Sea of Japan; all 6 torpedoes fired missed. 
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13 Jun 1945 WW2 Soviet Politburo ordered trials for a number of war time Polish leaders, including those who headed up the anti-German Home Army. 
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13 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Gunnel started her eighth war patrol. 
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13 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Bergall was damaged by a friendly naval mine. 
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13 Jun 1945 WW2 HMS Colossus arrived at Colombo, Ceylon. 
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13 Jun 1945 WW2 The Seiran aircraft flown by Lieutenant Masuo Egami and Warranty Officer Hisayoshi Kimoto crashed in a mountain on the coast of Nanao Bay, Japan. 
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13 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Ticonderoga arrived at Leyte, Philippine Islands. 
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13 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Wisconsin arrived at Leyte Gulf, Philippine Islands for repairs. 
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13 Jun 1945 WW2 US B-24 bombers based in the Philippine Islands attacked the town of Koshun, Takao Prefecture, Taiwan. Meanwhile, Two B-32 bombers attacked nearby Koshun Airfield. 
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14 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Pollack arrived at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, United States for inactivation. 
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14 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Chub sank a Japanese ship in the Java Sea, hitting her with one of five torpedoes fired. 
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14 Jun 1945 WW2 Otozo Yamada met with his top Kwangtung Army officers in Xinjin (Changchun), China to plan defenses against a potential Soviet invasion. 
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14 Jun 1945 WW2 Joachim von Ribbentrop was captured in Hamburg, Germany. 
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14 Jun 1945 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Sasebo, Japan. 
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15 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Charr departed the naval base at Subic Bay, Luzon, Philippine Islands for her third war patrol. 
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15 Jun 1945 WW2 The General Dutch Youth League (ANJV) was founded in Amsterdam, Netherlands. 
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15 Jun 1945 WW2 Rear Admiral Calvin Durgin visited USS Wake Island at Okinawa, Japan and presented awards to 16 of her pilots. 
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15 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Flying Fish sank ten small Japanese sail vessels with gunfire in the Sea of Japan and forced another two to beach to prevent sinking. 
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15 Jun 1945 WW2 Hurricane fighters of British No. 351 Squadron RAF were transferred to Yugoslavia. 
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15 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Whale departed for her eleventh war patrol. 
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16 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Tunny sighted life rafts from a Japanese ship that was sunk by USS Bonefish; from the survivors she captured a chief petty officer for interrogation. 
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16 Jun 1945 WW2 The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Twiggs was sunk by a Japanese special attack aircraft off Okinawa, Japan. 
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16 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island was removed from the front lines at Okinawa, Japan. 
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16 Jun 1945 WW2 Lavrentiy Beria gathered the conclusive evidence of Adolf Hitler's death and reported this to Joseph Stalin. 
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16 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Springer arrived at Saipan, Mariana Islands. 
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16 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Capitaine rescued five survivors of a sunken Japanese merchant ship. 
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16 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Columbia arrived at Leyte, Philippine Islands. 
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16 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Ray arrived at Midway Atoll, ending her seventh war patrol. 
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17 Jun 1945 WW2 Japanese Admiral Ota Minoru committed ritual suicide for failing to defend Okinawa, Japan. 
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17 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Tunny was attacked by Japanese aircraft in the Sea of Japan. 
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17 Jun 1945 WW2 Trawler Anticosti was decommissioned from Canadian service and was returned to the British Royal Navy. 
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17 Jun 1945 WW2 Georg-Wolfgang Feller became the last recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross award, although the award was given more than one month after German President Karl Dönitz had officially ordered all awards to cease. 
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17 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island received supplies at Kaika Harbor, Kerama Retto, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. 
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17 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Springer departed Saipan, Mariana Islands for her third war patrol. 
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17 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Bergall arrived at Subic Bay, Philippine Islands to receive emergency repairs for damage sustained four days prior by a friendly naval mine. This ended her fifth war patrol. 
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18 Jun 1945 WW2 While inspecting the front lines at Okinawa, Japan, Simon Buckner was killed by shrapnel. 
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18 Jun 1945 WW2 Japanese resistance on Mindinao, Philippine Islands ceased. 
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18 Jun 1945 WW2 The British demobilization began. 
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18 Jun 1945 WW2 25 American B-29 bombers laid naval mines in several areas including waters near Kobe, Japan. 
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18 Jun 1945 WW2 The US submarine Bonefish was sunk by Japanese naval vessels in Toyama Wan, Honshu, Japan. 
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18 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Pompon departed Guam, Mariana Islands for her ninth and final war patrol. 
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18 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Hawkbill arrived at Subic Bay, Zambales, Philippine Islands, ending her fourth war patrol. 
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18 Jun 1945 WW2 Douglas MacArthur offered Joseph Stilwell the position as his chief of staff, but Stilwell turned it down, citing that he preferred to command troops. 
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18 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Parche was relieved from her lifeguard station south of Japan. 
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18 Jun 1945 WW2 The US coastal minesweeper YMS-50 was destroyed by the light cruiser USS Denver after striking a Japanese mine during the landings at Balikpapan, Borneo. 
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18 Jun 1945 WW2 General Nikolai Berzarin, the Soviet commander in Berlin, Germany, was killed in a car crash in the city. 
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18 Jun 1945 WW2 Prince Kotohito was given a state funeral in Japan. 
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18 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Guitarro arrived at San Franciso, California, United States. 
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19 Jun 1945 WW2 US Army captured Okinawa, Japan. 
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19 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Tunny came across a Japanese cargo ship but was not able to attack due to shallow coastal waters. 
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19 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island was detached from Task Group 32.1. 
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19 Jun 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 86 arrived. 
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19 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Columbia departed Leyte, Philippine Islands. 
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19 Jun 1945 WW2 The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet created the Medal for the Liberation of Belgrade for those who participated in the successful Sep-Nov 1944 operation. 
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19 Jun 1945 WW2 14 US Army and US Navy airmen were executed at Taihoku Prison in Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan in the early morning. They were found guilty of "indiscriminate bombing" of civilians of Taiwan. Their remains were cremated and their ashes placed a local shrine. 
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19 Jun 1945 WW2 General Dwight Eisenhower received a ticker tape parade at New York City, New York, United States. 
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20 Jun 1945 WW2 Captain Shigenori Kami was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Navy 10th Air Fleet. 
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20 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Flying Fish attacked a Japanese transport in the Sea of Japan; all 3 torpedoes fired missed. 
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20 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Gabilan departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her sixth and final war patrol. 
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20 Jun 1945 WW2 US PB4Y-2 aircraft from Okinawa, Japan began laying mines in waters off the southern tip of Korea. 
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20 Jun 1945 WW2 US B-24 bombers based in the Philippine Islands struck Shinchiku Airfield (now Hsinchu), Taiwan. 
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21 Jun 1945 WW2 US troops captured Aparri, Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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21 Jun 1945 WW2 Otto Skorzeny was interrogated by three Allied Generals regarding his role in the Ardennes Offensive in Wiesbaden, Germany. 
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21 Jun 1945 WW2 Operation Kikusui No. 10 was launched off Okinawa, Japan, participated by about 30 Japanese Navy and 15 Japanese Army special attack and escorting aircraft. 
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21 Jun 1945 WW2 Major George Laven became the last P-38 Lightning ace of the war with the destruction of a Japanese H8K flying boat. 
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21 Jun 1945 WW2 HMS Hildasay was wrecked off Kilindili, Kenya, British East Africa. 
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21 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Becuna departed for her fifth war patrol. 
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21 Jun 1945 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Maizuru, Japan and was drydocked for maintenance. 
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21 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Parche sank a Japanese freighter Hizen Maru in the Tsugara Strait between Aomori Prefecture and Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan, hitting her with 1 of 4 torpedoes fired. 
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21 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Whale arrived at Saipan, Mariana Islands. 
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21 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Chub arrived at Subic Bay in central Luzon, Philippine Islands, ending her second war patrol. 
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22 Jun 1945 WW2 Mitsuru Ushijima committed ritual suicide at Okinawa, Japan. 
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22 Jun 1945 WW2 The Americans secured Okinawa, Japan. Three months of savage fighting had cost the Japanese 129,700 military and 42,000 civilian dead. Just over 10,000 were taken prisoner. The Japanese had also lost 7,800 aircraft and six capital ships. The Americans had lost 12,520 dead, 36,600 wounded, 763 aircraft destroyed and 40 warships sunk. 
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22 Jun 1945 WW2 Otto Skorzeny was transferred from a makeshift prison cell to the city jail of Wiesbaden, Germany. 
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22 Jun 1945 WW2 The final Japanese Navy Ohka combat sortie was conducted with six G4M bombers; none hit. 
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22 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Menhaden was commissioned into service, Commander David H. McClintock in command. 
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22 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Hackleback rescued downed pilot Lieutenant Commander C. P. Smith off Sakishima Islands, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. 
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22 Jun 1945 WW2 Viktor Abakumov wrote to Lavrentiy Beria complaining of Ivan Serov's interference with Soviet SMERSH business. Beria, with Joseph Stalin's approval, instead made Serov the plenipotentiary of all Soviet counterintelligence in Germany, thus expanding NKVD's control over SMERSH in the occupied country. Abakumov refused to allow his subordinates to follow Serov's command, however, thus Serov's authority would only be nominal. 
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22 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Parche sank two small Japanese boats and damaged a third in the Tsugara Strait between Aomori Prefecture and Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. 
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22 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Whale began patrolling waters between Japan and Wake Atoll. 
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22 Jun 1945 WW2 3 B-24 bombers of 65th Bomb Squadron, USAAF 43rd Bombardment Group attacked Japanese Navy Oil Refinery No. 6 (USAAF referred to this facility as the "Toshien Oil Refinery") at Takao (now Zuoying District, Kaohsiung), Taiwan with several 1,000-pound bombs. Smoke and cloud cover prevented the observation of bomb damage. 
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23 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Sargent Bay arrived at Leyte in the Philippine Islands for upkeep. 
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23 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Tunny made rendezvous with USS Skate in the Sea of Japan. 
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23 Jun 1945 WW2 The last organized Japanese defense was broken by Australian troops at Tarakan Island, Borneo. 
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23 Jun 1945 WW2 Joseph Stilwell accepted Douglas MacArthur's offer to make him the commanding officer of the 10th Army, which consisted of American, Canadian, Australian, and Indian troops. 
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23 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Spot set sail for the East China Sea. 
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23 Jun 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 33 departed. 
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23 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Parche sank three small Japanese trawlers with her deck gun in the Tsugara Strait between Aomori Prefecture and Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. 
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24 Jun 1945 WW2 General Zhukov took the salute in the Victory Parade in Moscow, Russia. 
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24 Jun 1945 WW2 Japanese representatives in Moscow, Russia requested the Soviet Union to extend the neutrality pact originally signed in 1941 and due to expire in Apr 1946. 
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24 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island arrived at Apra Harbor, Guam, Mariana Islands. Personnel of her air group were transferred to Naval Air Base Agana. 
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24 Jun 1945 WW2 A German Ar 234 aircraft surrendered to the British at Sola Airfield in Stavanger, Norway. This aircraft was later flown from Sola for Cherbourg, France, where it would be embarked onto a ship for transport to the United States. 
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24 Jun 1945 WW2 Konstantin Rokossovsky commanded a victory parade at the Red Square in Moscow, Russia. 
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24 Jun 1945 WW2 Australian forces captured Sarawak. 
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25 Jun 1945 WW2 Austria was divided into 4 occupied zones. 
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25 Jun 1945 WW2 British Second Army was stood down and sent home. 
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25 Jun 1945 WW2 Four American destroyers sank four Japanese subchasers in the Kurile Islands. 
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25 Jun 1945 WW2 US Marines landed on Kumejima, Okinawa, Japan. 
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25 Jun 1945 WW2 At Guam, Mariana Islands, USS Wake Island loaded 9 F6F Hellcat fighters, 24 F4U Corsair fighters, 11 Avenger torpedo bombers, and two Piper J-3 Cub observation aircraft for a transport mission to Okinawa, Japan. 
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25 Jun 1945 WW2 HMCS Trillium was decommissioned from service. 
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25 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Sea Cat arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her third war patrol. 
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25 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Parche attacked a large Japanese convoy off northern Japan, sinking one transport and damaging another with a total of 5 torpedo hits before before being driven off by counterattacks; she expended 7 torpedoes in this attack. 
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25 Jun 1945 WW2 Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa ordered a special attack on the American anchorage at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. Operation Hikari was planned to use submarines I-13 and I-14 to bring Saiun aircraft over Ulithi for reconnaissance. Operation Arashi would then have submarines I-400 and I-401 bring Seiran aircraft to perform special attacks on American ships if the conditions were favorable. Kaiten special attack submarines were to attack at the same time as well. 
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26 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Cod departed Guam, Mariana Islands for her seventh war patrol. 
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26 Jun 1945 WW2 Emil Hácha passed away in a prison hospital while awaiting trial. 
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26 Jun 1945 WW2 The Ohka Model 22 variant design saw its first drop test; it was a failure, with the aircraft exploding in an in-flight accident. 
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26 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Pintado rescued a downed B-29 bomber crew south of Honshu, Japan. 
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26 Jun 1945 WW2 The US coastal minesweepers YMS-39 and YMS-365 were mined and sunk off Balikpapan, Borneo. 
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26 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Springer rescued the eight survivors of a shot down B-29 bomber and one survivor of another south of Tokyo, Japan. 
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26 Jun 1945 WW2 The United Nations charter was signed at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco, California, United States. 
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26 Jun 1945 WW2 As Jan Smuts affixed his signature to the United Nations Charter at San Francisco, California, United States, he became the only person to have signed the documents forming the League of Nations and the United Nations. 
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27 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Caiman arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending third war patrol. 
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27 Jun 1945 WW2 French fighter ace Marcel Albert was appointed Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur. 
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27 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Baya fired six torpedoes at a Japanese vessel in the South China Sea; all torpedoes missed. 
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27 Jun 1945 WW2 HMCS Trillium was transferred to the British Royal Navy. 
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27 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Cero departed Guam, Mariana Islands for her eighth war patrol. 
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27 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Shamrock Bay arrived at San Pedro Bay in the Philippine Islands. 
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27 Jun 1945 WW2 Aleksandr Vadis was made the head of Soviet GSOVG Counterintelligence Directorate and P. I. Ivashutin was made the head of YuGV Counterintelligence Directorate. 
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27 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Tunny set sail for Midway Atoll. 
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28 Jun 1945 WW2 29 American B-29 bombers laid naval mines in three harbors, including Kobe, Japan. 
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28 Jun 1945 WW2 General MacArthur announced the end of Japanese resistance throughout the Philippine Islands. 
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28 Jun 1945 WW2 The US War Department ordered 150 million incendiary bombs, amounting to some 850,000 tons, to be employed over the next twelve months against Japanese industrial targets. 
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28 Jun 1945 WW2 Freighter USS Antares spotted a periscope and wake 100 yards from her starboard quarter off Saipan, Mariana Islands at 1329 hours. A hard maneuver to the starboard side avoided the torpedo, but the crew soon spotted a kaiten human-piloted torpedo approaching from the port side. At 1331, the freighter began firing at the kaiten, hitting it with the 2-inch gun and destroying it. At 1344 hours, another periscope was spotted; her guns opened fire on it, but the Japanese submarine I-36 would be able to dive and flee the area. 
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28 Jun 1945 WW2 Dong Zhao was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. 
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28 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Columbia arrived off Balikpapan, Borneo to escort minesweepers. 
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28 Jun 1945 WW2 Joseph Stalin ordered the planning for war with Japan, adding that "ll preparations were to be carried out in the greatest secrecy" as the Soviet Union and Japan were still engaged in neutrality with each other per the 1941 pact. 
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29 Jun 1945 WW2 Japan offered the Soviet Union fishing rights in various areas of waters on the Japanese-Russian maritime border in exchange for oil and continued to request the Soviet Union to renew the 1941 neutrality pact. 
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29 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Intensity arrived at Charleston, South Carolina, United States. 
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29 Jun 1945 WW2 Winston Churchill and Alan Brooke dismissed Oliver Leese and promoted William Slim to the rank of full general to succeed Leese as Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces, South-East Asia. 
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29 Jun 1945 WW2 Lieutenant Commander Stephen Johnson was named the commanding officer of USS Segundo. 
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29 Jun 1945 WW2 US B-24 bombers based in the Philippine Islands attacked the oil refinery at Shinchiku (now Hsinchu), Taiwan. 
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29 Jun 1945 WW2 USS R-1 arrived at Groton, Connecticut, United States. 
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30 Jun 1945 WW2 Commander H. H. Hale relieved Captain L. E. Gehres as the commanding officer of USS Franklin. 
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30 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Trepang sank a Japanese freighter at 0600 hours; the Japanese survivors refused to be picked up, thus were left to die. 
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30 Jun 1945 WW2 Japanese troops in Burma massacred 600 natives in the village of Kalagon, who had been accused of helping British paratroopers and guerrillas. The bodies were thrown down deep wells and when these filled up, the soldiers pounded the corpses with staves to make them fit better. 
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30 Jun 1945 WW2 The US Navy reported that it had in its possession 67,952 vessels and had a personnel strength of 3,383,196. The US Marine Corps reported a personnel strength of 476,709. The US Coast Guard reported a personnel strength of 171,192. 
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30 Jun 1945 WW2 Nautilus was decommissioned from service. 
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30 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Baya attacked small coastal vessels with her deck gun off Borneo in the Sulu Sea. 
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30 Jun 1945 WW2 Six of the ten sections of USS ABSD-1 began to be towed from Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. 
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30 Jun 1945 WW2 Ilse Koch was arrested by US authorities. 
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30 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Saint Paul completed training operations in waters off Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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30 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Whale set sail for Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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30 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Capitaine attacked five small Japanese craft with her deck gun in the Java Sea, sinking Bandai Maru. 
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30 Jun 1945 WW2 The Kinkaseki Prisoners of War Camp in northern Taiwan was closed. 
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01 Jul 1945 WW2 US submarine Barb attacked Japanese positions at Kaihyo Island off Sakhalin with rockets; it was the first American submarine-based rocket attack. 
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01 Jul 1945 WW2 Pedro Cerono discovered 8 skulls that led to the discovery of the Tapel Massacre by Japanese troops in the Philippine Islands. 
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01 Jul 1945 WW2 Amphibious landings by Australian and Dutch troops captured the great Borneo oil producing centre of Balik Papan. 
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01 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Croaker departed Fremantle, Australia for her sixth war patrol. 
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01 Jul 1945 WW2 More than 530 American B-29 bombers attacked various cities in Japan with incendiary bombs. 
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01 Jul 1945 WW2 US Navy PB4Y Privateer aircraft based in Okinawa, Japan mined waters off the southern tip of Korea for the last time. 
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01 Jul 1945 WW2 US Army B-29 bombers mined the Straits of Shimonoseki in Japan. 
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01 Jul 1945 WW2 The US Third Fleet set sail for Leyte, Philippine Islands for rest and refit. 
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01 Jul 1945 WW2 Whitehall was decommissioned from service. 
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01 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Sennet began her fourth war patrol in the Sea of Japan. 
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01 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Columbia covered landing operations at Borneo. 
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01 Jul 1945 WW2 US 2nd Armored Division moved into Berlin, Germany to take over the American Zone. 
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01 Jul 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Vice Admiral George D Murray, US Navy, was awarded Honorary Degree of Doctor of Naval Science by Boston College at this station. 
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01 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Parche sank three small Japanese trawlers with her deck gun in the Tsugara Strait between Aomori Prefecture and Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. 
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01 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Alabama set sail for the Japanese Home Islands. 
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01 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Ticonderoga departed Leyte, Philippine Islands and was assigned to Task Group 38.3. 
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01 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Wisconsin completed her repairs at Leyte Gulf, Philippine Islands. 
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02 Jul 1945 WW2 Okinawa, Japan was declared secure. 
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02 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Barb launched rockets on Japanese shore installations; she was the first American submarine to fire rockets in combat. 
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02 Jul 1945 WW2 Jürgen Stroop admitted his real identity to his US captors. 
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02 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Columbia provided naval gunfire support for Australian troops fighting on Borneo. 
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02 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Saint Paul departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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02 Jul 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Commander WC King relieved Captain Erl CB Gould as Commanding Officer of this station. Photographic Squadron 3 (VD-3) departed. 
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03 Jul 1945 WW2 Australian troops captured oil fields at Balikpapan, Borneo. 
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03 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Ticonderoga arrived at Guam, Mariana Islands for repairs on damaged reduction gear. 
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03 Jul 1945 WW2 US Senator James F. Byrnes succeeded Edward Stettinius, Jr. as the US Secretary of State. 
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04 Jul 1945 WW2 Canadian troops rioted in Aldershot, England, United Kingdom in protest against the delay in shipping them home after service in Europe. Around 500 troops were involved although little damage was caused and no one was seriously injured. 
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04 Jul 1945 WW2 B-29 bombers of the US Army Far East Air Force aircraft attacked Kyushu, Japan from their bases in the Philippine Islands. 
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04 Jul 1945 WW2 British 7th Armored Division entered Berlin, Germany to occupy the British Zone. 
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04 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Flying Fish arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her twelfth war patrol. 
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04 Jul 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 63 arrived. 
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04 Jul 1945 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Maizuru, Japan. 
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04 Jul 1945 WW2 Submarines I-13 and I-14 arrived at Mutsu, Japan. 
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05 Jul 1945 WW2 John Curtin passed away from heart disease. 
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05 Jul 1945 WW2 Douglas MacArthur announced that the Philippine Islands had been liberated. 
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05 Jul 1945 WW2 Britain citizens went to the polls. The results, which would yield a Labour Party victory over Winston Churchill's Conservative Party, would not be declared until 26 Jul 1945. 
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05 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Puffer claimed the sinking of seven small Japanese vessels with her deck gun and another vessel with 2 torpedoes (1 hit) at Bali, Dutch East Indies, and then went on to bombard shore facilities. 
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05 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Boarfish departed Fremantle, Australia for her fourth war patrol. 
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05 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Sterlet departed Midway for her fifth war patrol. 
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05 Jul 1945 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Sasebo, Japan. 
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05 Jul 1945 WW2 American B-24 bombers based on Okinawa, Japan bombed the Omura-Nagasaki area in the Japanese home islands. On the same day, more than 100 American fighters based on Iwo Jima, Japan attacked targets in eastern Honshu in the Japanese home islands. 
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05 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Shamrock Bay departed San Pedro Bay in the Philippine Islands for Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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05 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Hoe completed her overhaul at Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States and departed for the western Pacific. 
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06 Jul 1945 WW2 Norway declared war on Japan. On this date, there were over 800 Norwegians being held in Japanese prisoner of war camps. 
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06 Jul 1945 WW2 517 American B-29 bombers from the Mariana Islands dropped incendiary bombs on Japan. 
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06 Jul 1945 WW2 100 American P-51 and P-38 fighters attacked Japanese targets in Indochina. 
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06 Jul 1945 WW2 King Mihai I of Romania was awarded the Soviet Order of Victory for his leadership role in the ousting of Ion Antonescu, making him the only civilian recipient of this award. 
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06 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Tunny arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her ninth and final war patrol. 
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06 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Whale arrived at Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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07 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Trepang sank Japanese freighter Koun Maru Number Two; the subsequent attack by depth charges from an aircraft resulted in no damage to the submarine. 
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07 Jul 1945 WW2 The J8M Shusui/Ki-200 fighter took its first flight; the aircraft stalled in flight and was destroyed after a unsuccessful crash landing. 
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07 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Gabilan detected a hostile submarine south of Japan and attacked with 6 torpedoes; all torpedoes missed. 
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07 Jul 1945 WW2 Four of the ten sections of USS ABSD-1 began to be towed from Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. 
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07 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Hackleback fired 73 shells against Japanese positions on Koto Sho (now Lanyu "Orchid" Island), Taiwan. 
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07 Jul 1945 WW2 US B-24 bombers attacked Matsuyama Airfield in Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan. 
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07 Jul 1945 WW2 USS R-1 departed Groton, Connecticut, United States for the Fleet Sonar School at Key West, Florida, United States. 
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07 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Whale departed Guam, Mariana Islands to conduct lifeguard patrols. 
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08 Jul 1945 WW2 RAF sergeant Simon Eden, son of British foreign secretary Anthony Eden, was listed as missing in action in Burma. 
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08 Jul 1945 WW2 9 US carriers, organized into 3 task groups each complete with battleship and cruiser screens, refueled east of Iwo Jima, Japan. 
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08 Jul 1945 WW2 Over 100 American fighters struck eastern Honshu, Japan from their bases on Iwo Jima, Japan. 
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08 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Carbonero completed her first war patrol. 
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08 Jul 1945 WW2 Subhash Chandra Bose attended the foundation stone laying ceremony for the Indian National Army War Memorial in Singapore. 
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08 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Missouri set sail as an escort for carriers. 
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08 Jul 1945 WW2 The crew of light cruiser Voroshilov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. 
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08 Jul 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 10 arrived. 
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08 Jul 1945 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Maizuru, Japan. 
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08 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Bluefish sank a Japanese patrol boat in the South China Sea, hitting her with 2 of 12 torpedoes fired. 
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08 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Boarfish was attacked by bombs by a Japanese aircraft, but sustained no damage. 
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08 Jul 1945 WW2 US B-24 bombers based in the Philippine Islands struck Shinchiku Airfield (now Hsinchu), Taiwan. 
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08 Jul 1945 WW2 In what was later nicknamed as "The Midnight Massacre", US Army prison guard Private Clarence V. Bertucci climbed to the top of a guard tower of the prisoners of war camp in Salina, Utah, United States and fired the mounted M1917 Browning machine gun on tents occupied by German prisoners. His 15 seconds of rampage, during which 250 rounds were fired, killed 6 and wounded 20 (3 of whom would later of their wounds). The victims were later buried with full military honors at Fort Douglas Cemetery in Salt Lake City, Utah, while Bertucci was admitted into a mental institution in the state of New York in eastern United States. 
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08 Jul 1945 WW2 British carrier HMS Reaper arrived at Newark, New Jersey, United States with a captured German Ar 234 aircraft aboard. 
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09 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Cod rescued the crew of the grounded Dutch submarine O-19. Upon completion, she scuttled the grounded boat by gunfire. 
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09 Jul 1945 WW2 The Brazilian cruiser Bahia exploded and sank in the North Atlantic, with the loss of nearly 300 men. Whilst most likely an accident a theory persisted that she had been torpedoed by a German U-boats fleeing to South America. 
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09 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Sea Robin sank a small Japanese patrol craft with one torpedo in the East China Sea and took on one survivor. 
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09 Jul 1945 WW2 The US Coastal minesweeper YMS-84 struck a mine and sank off Balikpapan, Borneo. 
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09 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Dragonet departed Guam, Mariana Islands for her third war patrol.  
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09 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Macabi departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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09 Jul 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Lieut. Comdr. Holt assumed duty as Acting Executive Officer of station, relieving Commander Allan Lowrey. 
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09 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Spot sank two Japanese boats with her deck gun in the Yellow Sea. 
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09 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Gunnel attacked a Japanese submarine south of Japan; all 4 torpedoes missed. 
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10 Jul 1945 WW2 U-530 arrived at Mar del Plata, Argentina and surrendered to the Argentineans. 
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10 Jul 1945 WW2 The Americans launched the first of several 1,000-bomber raids against the Japanese home islands. 
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10 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Sea Robin sank Japanese cargo ship Sakishima Maru in the East China Sea, hitting her with all four torpedoes fired. 
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10 Jul 1945 WW2 United Kingdom, United States, and the Soviet Union agreed to include France in the administration of Berlin, Germany. 
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10 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Marcus Island departed the west coast of the United States for Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii with troops and aircraft on board. 
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11 Jul 1945 WW2 More than 2,100 heavy bombers of the US 8th Air Force began redeployment from England, United Kingdom to the United States for onward movement to the Pacific Theatre. 
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11 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Ray departed for her eighth and final war patrol. 
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11 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Brill damaged a Japanese transport in the Gulf of Thailand, hitting her with 1 of 11 torpedoes fired. 
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11 Jul 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 86 departed. 
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11 Jul 1945 WW2 I-13 departed Mutsu, Japan. 
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11 Jul 1945 WW2 Japanese ambassador to the Soviet Union Naotake Sato failed to convince Vyacheslav Molotov to engage their two nations in a formal peace treaty. 
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11 Jul 1945 WW2 US B-24 bombers based in the Philippine Islands struck Shinchiku Airfield (now Hsinchu), Taiwan. 
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12 Jul 1945 WW2 Japanese representatives in the Soviet Union requested a update on the Japanese inquiry on the extension of the 1941 non-aggression treaty, getting little in the way of a response. 
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12 Jul 1945 WW2 More than 500 American B-29 bombers dropped incendiary bombs on a number of cities on Honshu, Japan. 
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12 Jul 1945 WW2 A number of B-25 bombers based in Okinawa attacked military airfields on Kyushu, Japan. 
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12 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Hawkbill departed Subic Bay, Zambales, Philippine Islands for her fifth war patrol. 
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12 Jul 1945 WW2 The Britain honored Soviet General Zhukov in a ceremony at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany. 
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12 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Hackleback arrived at Guam, Mariana Islands, ending her second war patrol. 
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12 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Seahorse departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her eighth war patrol. 
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12 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Wasp departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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13 Jul 1945 WW2 Large cruisers USS Alaska and USS Guam, accompanied by 4 light cruisers and 9 destroyers, sortied from Leyte, Philippine Islands to attack Japanese shipping in the East China Sea. 
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13 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Missouri escorted carriers while the aircraft struck Japan. 
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13 Jul 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Four members of Congressional Committee inspected this station. Present: Edward VM IZAC, Albert A GORE, Andrew J BIEMILLER and CW BISHOP. 
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13 Jul 1945 WW2 I-400 departed Nanao Bay and arrived at Maizuru, Japan. 
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13 Jul 1945 WW2 I-401 departed Nanao Bay and arrived at Maizuru, Japan. 
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14 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Trepang rescued down US Navy airman Lieutenant (junior grade) Bill Kingston from the water. 
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14 Jul 1945 WW2 The French celebrated Bastille Day for the first time since 1940. 
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14 Jul 1945 WW2 The US Seventh Air Force was assigned under the Far East Air Forces. 
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14 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Bluefish sank Japanese submarine I-351 in the South China Sea. 
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14 Jul 1945 WW2 Destroyer HMCS St. Francis, while under tow to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, sank off Sagonnet Point, Rhode Island, United States after colliding with transport Winding Gulf. 
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14 Jul 1945 WW2 Corvettes HMCS Chilliwack and Fredericton were decommissioned at Sorel, Quebec, Canada. 
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14 Jul 1945 WW2 Corvette HMCS Fergus was decommissioned at Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. 
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14 Jul 1945 WW2 Escort carrier Rabaul was launched. 
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14 Jul 1945 WW2 Destroyer USS Glennon was launched. 
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14 Jul 1945 WW2 US carrier aircraft struck the airfield at Misawa, Aomori in northern Japan, destroying the G4M bombers that were assigned to partake the planned Operation Ken, which sought to deliver 300 suicide commandos to the Mariana Islands. The mission was launched by the US Navy with knowledge of Operation Ken. 
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14 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Missouri escorted carriers while the aircraft struck Japan. 
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14 Jul 1945 WW2 Light carrier Hosho received orders to transit the Shimonoseki Strait for Moji, Japan, but the order was repeatedly delayed due to US air attacks. 
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14 Jul 1945 WW2 Eisenhower dissolved the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force at Königssee, Thüringen, Germany. 
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14 Jul 1945 WW2 American battleships USS South Dakota, USS Indiana, and USS Massachusetts and escorting destroyers bombarded Kamaishi, Honshu, Japan; the primary target was the Kamaishi Works of the Japan Iron Company, but several destroyers shells overshot the target and hit the town, killing many civilians; battleship shells were more accurate, destroying about 65% of the industrial complex, but they also killed many civilians; this was the first time the Japanese home islands were subjected to naval bombardment. To the north, the sinking of 6 warships and 37 steamers on the ferry route between Honshu and Hokkaido effectively cut off the latter from the rest of the home islands. At Kure, aircraft of US Navy TF 38 damaged carrier Amagi, carrier Katsuragi, and battleship Haruna. Far to the south, the USAAF XXI Bomber Command canceled a long-range P-51 raid from Iwo Jima to attack Meiji and Kagamigahara near Nagoya due to poor weather. 
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15 Jul 1945 WW2 Italy declared war on Japan. 
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15 Jul 1945 WW2 King Leopold of Belgium again refused to abdicate. 
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15 Jul 1945 WW2 Japanese submarine I-502 was commissioned into service at Singapore. 
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15 Jul 1945 WW2 Japanese submarine I-501 was commissioned into service. 
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15 Jul 1945 WW2 Japanese submarine I-505 was commissioned into service. 
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15 Jul 1945 WW2 Japanese submarine I-506 was commissioned into service. 
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15 Jul 1945 WW2 Corvettes HMCS Timmins and HMCS Thorlock were decommissioned at Sorel, Quebec, Canada. 
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15 Jul 1945 WW2 Corvette HMCS Midland was decommissioned at Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. 
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15 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Becuna attacked a Japanese Otori-class torpedo boat without effect. 
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15 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Menhaden completed training in Lake Michigan in the United States. 
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15 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Cero rescued three downed US airmen off Japan. Later in the day, she bombarded the Japanese lighthouse and radio station at Shiriya Saki at Higashidori, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. 
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15 Jul 1945 WW2 American battleships USS Iowa, USS Missouri, and USS Wisconsin bombarded industrial targets at Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan; the main targets were Wanishi Iron Works plants and the Muroran Works. From the air, American naval aircraft attacked northern Honshu and Hokkaido, destroying railways and coal ferries. 104 US Army P-51 fighters based in Iwo Jima Meiji, Kagamigahara, Kowa, Akenogahara, Nagoya, and Suzuko, Japan. B-24 bombers attacked Tomitaka, Usa, Kikaiga-shima, Amami Islands, Yaku-shima, Osumi Islands, and Tamega Island. After sun down, American B-29 bombers mined Japanese waters at Naoetsu and Niigata and Korean waters at Najin, Busan, and Wonsan, while other B-29 bombers attacked and seriously damaged the Nippon Oil Company facilities at Kudamatsu in southwestern Japan. 
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15 Jul 1945 WW2 Marquis Hironobu was made an instructor at the Japanese Navy Torpedo School. 
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15 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Bluefish sank Japanese submarine I-351 in the South China Sea, hitting her with 2 of 5 torpedoes fired. 
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15 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Chub departed Subic Bay in central Luzon, Philippine Islands for her third war patrol. 
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16 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Blenny reported sinking a small Japanese craft with the deck gun. 
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16 Jul 1945 WW2 UK Task Force 37 (HMS Victorious, HMS Formidable, and HMS Implacable) made rendezvous with US Task Force 38.2 about 500 miles north of Manus for a raid on the Japanese home islands; they were to be joined by HMS Indefatigable four days later. 
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16 Jul 1945 WW2 Churchill arrived in Berlin, Germany for the Potsdam Conference and visited the bunker where Hitler committed suicide. 
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16 Jul 1945 WW2 German Field Marshal Ernst Busch, formerly commander of Army Group Centre in Russia and later Army Group Northwest during the final months of the European war, passed away whilst in a military hospital in Nottingham, England, United Kingdom where he was being held as a prisoner of war. 
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16 Jul 1945 WW2 Canadian physicist Louis Slotin assembled the atomic bomb Gadget for Operation Trinity, and received the nickname "Chief Armorer of the United States". 
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16 Jul 1945 WW2 The headquarters of the US Army Eighth Air Force was ordered to move from Britain to Okinawa, Japan. 
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16 Jul 1945 WW2 During the day, 5 American P-47 fighters attacked Yanagawa, Japan while 94 American P-51 fighters based in Iwo Jima attacked Kameyama, Kiyosu, Komaki, Okazaki, Suzuko, and Akenogahara. After sundown, four B-29 incendiary bombing missions were launched against Japanese cities, with 119 aircraft over Namazu (destroying 3.6 square kilometers of the city), 124 over Oita (1.437 square kilometers), 94 over Kuwana (1.63 square kilometers), and 129 over Hiratsuka (2.69 square kilometers); damage caused on all four cities were severe. 
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16 Jul 1945 WW2 2 B-24 bombers of US Eleventh Air Force searched for Japanese shipping off Shimushiru in the Kurile Islands without success. 
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16 Jul 1945 WW2 Destroyer escort USS Lawrence C. Taylor and TBM Avenger aircraft of Composite Squadron 13 from escort aircraft carrier USS Anzio sank Japanese submarine I-13 860 kilometers east of Yokohama, Japan. 
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16 Jul 1945 WW2 General Carl Spaatz became the commanding officer of the US Army Strategic Air Forces based at Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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16 Jul 1945 WW2 In Canada, corvettes HMCS Amherst and Whitby were decommissioned from service at Sydney, Nova Scotia and at Sorel, Quebec, respectively. 
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16 Jul 1945 WW2 Escort carrier USS Bairoko was commissioned into service. 
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16 Jul 1945 WW2 The keel of American destroyer Witek was laid down. 
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16 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Baya sank a Japanese coastal patrol vessel off Borneo in the South China Sea, hitting her with 2 of 11 torpedoes fired. 
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16 Jul 1945 WW2 The US Military Tribunal at Dachau, Germany sentenced Josef Dietrich to life in prison (later commuted to 25 years in prison) for the execution of US prisoners of war at Malmedy, Belgium in 1944. 
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16 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Manta arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her first war patrol. 
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16 Jul 1945 WW2 The Americans successfully detonated an atomic bomb at Alamogordo Bombing Range in New Mexico, United States. The test blast created temperatures 10,000 times the surface temperature of the sun and was felt 200 miles away. The explosion was the equivalent of 20,000 tons of TNT and throws a column of fire and smoke 35,000 feet into the night sky. The authorities hid the blast by claiming that an ammunition dump had gone up. 
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16 Jul 1945 WW2 The cruiser USS Indianapolis sailed from San Francisco, California, United States with a top secret cargo - components of the atomic bomb to be dropped on Hiroshima unless the Japanese surrendered. The Indianapolis would take 10 days to sail to the island of Tinian, Mariana Islands where US B-29 bombers were waiting. 
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17 Jul 1945 WW2 UK Task Force 37 and US Task Force 38.2 launched their first strike on the Japanese home islands; it was the first British attack on Japan in the Pacific War. British Seafire carrier fighters were launched against Japanese airfields at Kionoke, Naruto, and Miyakawa. American warships bombarded Hitachi, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. 1,207 16-inch shells from battleships and 292 6-inch shells from cruisers were fired. 
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17 Jul 1945 WW2 At the Potsdam Conference in Germany, top Allied leadership set up a Control Council to administer occupied Germany. 
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17 Jul 1945 WW2 Rescue tug HMS Athlete hit a mine and sank off Leghorn, Italy. 
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17 Jul 1945 WW2 4 B-25 bombers of the 77th Bombardment Squadron (Medium), 28th Bombardment Group (Composite), US Eleventh Air Force based in the Aleutian Islands searched for Japanese shipping in the northern Kurile Islands off Shumshu and Atlasov Islands. 2 of the bombers were forced to land in Kamchatka and became the last American airmen to be interned by the Russians. 
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17 Jul 1945 WW2 After sundown, in Japan, 27 B-29 bombers deployed naval mines in the Straits of Shimonoseki between the islands of Honshu and Kyushu, waters off the Nanao-Fushiki area on the northern coast of central Honshu, off Henashi Cape in northern Honshu, and off Iwase in eastern Honshu. 
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17 Jul 1945 WW2 Canadian corvettes HMCS Trail and HMCS Dundas were decommissioned at Sorel, Quebec, Canada; corvette HMCS Athol was decommissioned at Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. 
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17 Jul 1945 WW2 Over 200 American bombers attacked Jiangwan, Shanghai, China, which held the largest concentration of Japanese aircraft in China. 
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17 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii with 300 sacks of mail and 30 defective aircraft from Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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17 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Springer began patrolling the Kii Channel between Honshu and Shikoku islands of Japan. 
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17 Jul 1945 WW2 I-14 departed Mutsu, Japan. 
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17 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Parche made rendezvous with USS Cero and took on three rescued aviators, then set sail for Midway Atoll. 
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18 Jul 1945 WW2 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada had a miraculous escape when the Bedford Naval magazine blew up. Thousands were evacuated as explosions rocked the town for 24 hours, but battling firemen managed to prevent the flames from reaching the main magazine. Fortunately there were only fifteen casualties of which only one proved fatal. 
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18 Jul 1945 WW2 In Germany, the second plenary session of the Potsdam Conference was conducted. 
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18 Jul 1945 WW2 The headquarters of the US Army Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific was established on Guam, Mariana Islands under General Carl Spaatz. 
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18 Jul 1945 WW2 P-47 Thunderbolt and P-51 Mustang aircraft of US Far East Air Forces attacked various targets on Kyushu and the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, focusing largely on communications lines, bridges, shipping, and population centers. 
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18 Jul 1945 WW2 US Eleventh Air Force launched two routine search and weather missions in the Aleutian Islands. 
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18 Jul 1945 WW2 In Canada, corvettes HMCS Battleford and HMCS Mimico were decommissioned at Sorel, Quebec while corvette HMCS Lindsay was decommissioned at Sydney, Nova Scotia. 
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18 Jul 1945 WW2 Canadian frigate HMCS Runnymede arrived at Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. 
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18 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Hawkbill attacked a Japanese convoy; she only narrowly escaped the subsequent depth charge attack by the convoy escorts. 
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18 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Cero was attacked by Japanese aircraft and suffered extensive damage; she set sail for Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for repairs. 
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18 Jul 1945 WW2 214 US aircraft attacked the Japanese airfield at Shanghai, China. 
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18 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii after taking on 187 passengers. 
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18 Jul 1945 WW2 American battleships USS North Carolina, USS Alabama, USS Iowa, USS Missouri, and USS Wisconsin and British battleship HMS King George V bombarded Hitachi, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan with 2,000 shells; the Taga Works and Mito Works of Hitachi Manufacturing Company were moderately damaged, and the Yamate Plant and the copper refining plants of Hitachi Mine were lightly damaged. Civilian housing areas were also attacked, causing many deaths. 
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18 Jul 1945 WW2 Nagato was damaged in port at Yokosuka, Japan during an American carrier air raid. A destroyer, a sumarine, and three smaller vessels were sunk during the attack. 
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18 Jul 1945 WW2 Lieutenant William Bell Asbridge, Corsair fighter pilot stationed flying from HMS Formidable, was shot down and killed in action near Tokyo, Japan. 
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18 Jul 1945 WW2 The air groups of submarines I-400 and I-401 held a farewell dinner in Maizuru, Japan before their planned suicide mission against Ulithi, Caroline Islands. Lieutenant Commander Nobukiyo Nambu, commanding officer of I-401, secretly invited some of the airmen's family members as a nice gesture. 
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18 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Spot arrived at Saipan, Mariana Islands, ending her third war patrol. 
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18 Jul 1945 WW2 US B-24 bombers attacked Matsuyama Airfield in Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan. 
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18 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Wasp launched Carrier Air Group Eighty Six aircraft against Wake Island. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Tirante arrived at at Guam, Mariana Islands, ending her second war patrol. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Sea Robin fired eight torpedoes at a Japanese tanker in the East China Sea, but all torpedoes missed. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 Canadian anti-submarine patrol vessels ML 076 and ML 077 were decommissioned from service. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 German submarine U-181 sank transport King Frederick off southern India in the Arabian Sea at 1703 hours; 27 were killed, 29 survived. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Brill fired four torpedoes at a Japanese destroyer in the Gulf of Thailand; all torpedoes missed. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 Viktor Abakumov was promoted to the rank of colonel general. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 Lavrentiy Beria was promoted to the rank of marshal. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 Vsevolod Merkulov was promoted to the rank of general. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 Captain Enosuke Hirano, a doctor of Unit 731, examined prisoners of war Don Atkiss, Joe Holguin, Dick Lanigan, Jim McMurria, and Joe Nason at Rabaul, New Britain. During the examination he injected them with malaria-infected blood drawn from infected Japanese personnel so he could work on a possible vaccination. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 Canadian corvettes HMCS Peterborough, HMCS Rosthern, and HMCS Owen Sound were decommissioned off Sorel, Quebec, Canada. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Bugara fired 9 torpedoes at a Japanese convoy south of Saigon, Indochina. All torpedoes missed. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Ticonderoga departed Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 Japanese special attack aircraft damaged destroyer USS Thatcher off Okinawa, Japan; another special attack aircraft narrowly missed destroyer USS Charles J. Badger. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 After sundown, US 20th Air Force launched 27 B-29 Superfortress bombers to mine waters off Japan and Korea, 127 B-29 bombers to attack Fukui, 126 B-29 bombers to attack Hitachi, 91 B-29 bombers to attack Choshi, 126 B-29 bombers to attack Okazaki, and 83 B-29 bombers to attack the Nippon oil plant at Amagasaki; only 3 B-29 bombers were lost by the US 20th Air Force during this night. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 US Navy Task Force 38 carrier aircraft damaged carrier Amagi, carrier Katsuragi, and battleship Haruna at Kure Naval Shipyard, Japan. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 US warships of Task Group 35.4 conducted a final bombardment of radar stations at Nojima Saki about 90 kilometers south of Tokyo, Japan. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 In a ceremony held by the air groups of submarines I-400 and I-401 in Maizuru, Japan, each of the airmen received a special short sword from Vice Admiral Tadashige Daigo before they embarked on their suicide mission against Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 Settsu departed Kure, Japan. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 P-38 aircraft of US 13th Air Force attacked a Japanese suicide boat base in Sandakan, Sabah, North Borneo, while US B-25 bombers attacked Japanese airfields at Jesselton (now Kota Kinabalu) to the west. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Spot departed Saipan, Mariana Islands. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Bluefish sank a Japanese patrol boat with her deck gun southeast of Singapore. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 Ivan Serov, Sergei Kruglov, Vasili Chernyshev, and Bogdan Kobulov were promoted to the rank of colonel general. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 The United States Congress ratified the Bretton Woods system of monetary management, which led to the establishment of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD). 
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20 Jul 1945 WW2 The US Army Air Force began launching B-29 bomber raids, each with very few planes, against Japanese cities. The goal of such missions was to make such small raids a frequent occurrence to increase the success rate of the planned atomic bomb missions. 
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20 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Sea Robin fired a torpedo at a Japanese ship in the East China Sea; the torpedo missed. 
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20 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Baya attacked a Japanese patrol craft in the South China Sea with her deck gun. 
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20 Jul 1945 WW2 Achille Van Acker recommended abdication for King Leopold III of Belgium. 
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20 Jul 1945 WW2 Canadian corvette HMCS Oakville was decommissioned off Sorel, Quebec, Canada. 
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20 Jul 1945 WW2 Canadian corvette HMCS Prescott was decommissioned off Sorel, Quebec, Canada. 
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20 Jul 1945 WW2 Canadian corvette HMCS St. Lambert was decommissioned off Sorel, Quebec, Canada. 
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20 Jul 1945 WW2 Canadian patrol vessel HMCS Ambler was decommissioned off Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. 
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20 Jul 1945 WW2 Canadian patrol vessel HMCS Reindeer was decommissioned off Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. 
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20 Jul 1945 WW2 Canadian patrol vessel HMCS Caribou was decommissioned off Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. 
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20 Jul 1945 WW2 Canadian patrol vessel HMCS Moose was decommissioned off Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. 
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20 Jul 1945 WW2 Canadian motor launch HMC ML 078 was decommissioned off Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. 
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20 Jul 1945 WW2 British carrier HMS Reaper departed Cherbourg, France with a captured German Ar 234 aircraft aboard. 
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20 Jul 1945 WW2 At Potsdam, Germany, Harry Truman declared that the Allies would demand no territory upon victory. 
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20 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Ticonderoga re-joined Task Group 38.3; Air Group 87 aircraft struck Nagoya, Osaka, and Miko in Japan. 
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20 Jul 1945 WW2 HMS Indefatigable joined UK Task Force 37 and US Task Force 38.2 for an attack on the Japanese home islands. On the same day, an US Army B-29 bomber failed to attack the Imperial Palace in Tokyo with a large "Pumpkin bomb". 
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20 Jul 1945 WW2 US 11th Air Force launched 8 B-24 bombers against Matsuwa Airfield, Matsuwa, Hokkaido, Japan in the Kurile Islands. Meanwhile, 94 Iwo Jima-based US P-51 fighters strafed airfields at Kamezaki, Meiji, Okazaki, Nagoya, Kagamigahara, Hamamatsu, and Komaki; 3 fighters were lost. 
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20 Jul 1945 WW2 The US Congress ratified the Bretton Woods monetary agreement. 
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21 Jul 1945 WW2 The Allied leadership threatened Japan with destruction if it did not surrender. 
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21 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Sea Robin fired a torpedo at a Japanese patrol boat in the East China Sea; the torpedo missed. Later in the same day, she sank two small tankers with her deck gun. 
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21 Jul 1945 WW2 Allied leaders selected Nürnberg, Germany as the location for trials against accused German war criminals. 
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21 Jul 1945 WW2 Soviet submarine ShCh-411 was commissioned into service. 
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21 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Macabi reached waters near Truk, Caroline Islands as a lifeguard vessel. 
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21 Jul 1945 WW2 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill took the salute at a parade of the 7th Armoured Division through the Charlottenburger Chaussee in Berlin, Germany. This was a great honour to the "Desert Rats" who had fought all the way from El Alamein, Egypt to the German capital. 
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21 Jul 1945 WW2 12 M26 Pershing heavy tanks arrived at Okinawa, Japan. 
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21 Jul 1945 WW2 I-400 departed Maizuru, Japan. 
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21 Jul 1945 WW2 I-401 departed Maizuru, Japan. 
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22 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Caiman departed Fremantle, Australia for her fourth war patrol. 
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22 Jul 1945 WW2 The first of American troops with combat experience in Europe arrived in the Philippine Islands. 
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22 Jul 1945 WW2 23 American B-29 bombers based in Iwo Jima, Japan mined the Korean coast. 
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22 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Sea Robin sank a small Japanese vessel with her deck gun in the East China Sea. 
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22 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Pompon arrived at Guam, Mariana Islands, ending her ninth and final war patrol. 
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22 Jul 1945 WW2 I-400 arrived at Mutsu, Japan. 
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22 Jul 1945 WW2 I-401 arrived at Mutsu, Japan. 
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23 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Blenny reported sinking two small Japanese craft with the deck gun in the South China Sea off Malaya. 
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23 Jul 1945 WW2 In Moscow, Russia, the Politburo approved the sentence of death by hanging of turncoat General Andrei Vlasov who had raised two divisions of Russian volunteers to fight for the Germans. 
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23 Jul 1945 WW2 American aviators reported the presence of barrage balloons 12,000 feet above Hitachi, Japan. 
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23 Jul 1945 WW2 Men landed by submarine USS Barb destroyed a train in Karafuto, Japan (Kurile Islands). 
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23 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Sea Robin sank a small Japanese vessel with her deck gun in the East China Sea. 
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23 Jul 1945 WW2 The trial against Marshal Philippe Pétain began at Palais de Justice, Paris, France. 
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23 Jul 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 10 departed. 
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23 Jul 1945 WW2 Light carrier Hosho began preparations to depart Kure, Japan for Moji, Japan. 
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23 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Springer completed her patrol of the Kii Channel between Honshu and Shikoku islands of Japan and set sail for Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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23 Jul 1945 WW2 I-400 departed Mutsu, Japan. 
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23 Jul 1945 WW2 I-401 departed Mutsu, Japan. Shortly after, she was fired upon by friendly Japanese coastal artillery on the island of Hokkaido; she was able to submerge and escaped without damage. 
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23 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Parche arrived at Midway Atoll. 
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24 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Blenny reported sinking a small Japanese craft with the deck gun in the South China Sea off Malaya. 
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24 Jul 1945 WW2 US President Harry Truman informed Soviet leader Joseph Stalin that the United States had successfully constructed atomic weapons. Stalin showed surprise, but in actuality he had already learned this through the Soviet intelligence network. 
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24 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Bugara sank 4 small enemy craft with her deck gun in the Gulf of Siam and South China Sea area during the day. 
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24 Jul 1945 WW2 I-402 was commissioned into service. 
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24 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Sea Robin fired three torpedoes at a Japanese oiler in the East China Sea; all torpedoes missed. 
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24 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Chub sank a Japanese tug in the Java Sea with her deck gun. 
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24 Jul 1945 WW2 The Allied Control Commission for Austria was established in Vienna. 
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24 Jul 1945 WW2 More than 100 B-24 bombers based in Okinawa, Japan attacked Japanese airfields at Shanghai, China. 
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24 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Gunnel arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her eighth war patrol. 
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24 Jul 1945 WW2 British TF 37 launched 416 sorties, 261 of which were sent against the Japanese home islands and 155 were for defensive patrols; escort carrier Kaiyo was damaged by British carrier planes. On the same day, American TF 38 launched 600 aircraft against Kure, Nagoya, Osaka, and Miho, sinking battleship-carrier Hyuga, heavy cruiser Tone, and target ship Settsu, and damaging carrier Ryuho, carrier Amagi, battleship-carrier Ise, battleship Haruna, heavy cruiser Aoba, light cruiser Oyodo, transport Kiyokawa Maru; the Aichi aircraft factories at Nagoya were seriously damaged. 
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24 Jul 1945 WW2 Light carrier Hosho was hit by a bomb or a rocket during an attack by US aircraft at Kure, Japan; the damage was minor. 
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24 Jul 1945 WW2 Settsu was attacked by 30 US Navy F6F-3 fighters while off Kure, Hiroshima, Japan after 1500 hours, suffering one direct bomb hit and five near misses. Captain Masanao Ofuji grounded her on the island of Etajima to prevent sinking. 
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24 Jul 1945 WW2 The destroyer escort USS Underhill was sunk off the Philippine Islands by a Japanese Kaiten midget submarine with the loss of 112 crew. 
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24 Jul 1945 WW2 General Henry Arnold, head of the USAAF, was presented with a top-secret memorandum specifying possible targets recommended for attack with atomic bombs. 
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25 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Blenny reported sinking two small Japanese craft with the deck gun in the South China Sea off Malaya. 
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25 Jul 1945 WW2 US General Carl Spaatz was ordered to prepare for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Kokura, Niigata, or Nagasaki in Japan; the target date was set for some time after 3 Aug. 
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25 Jul 1945 WW2 US carrier aircraft attacked Japanese shipping in the Inland Sea near Osaka and Nagoya, Japan. 
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25 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Bugara sank 6 small enemy craft with her deck gun in the Gulf of Siam and South China Sea area during the day. 
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25 Jul 1945 WW2 I-401 began to sail on the surface after traveling submerged for the paste two days. 
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25 Jul 1945 WW2 Lavrentiy Beria informed Joseph Stalin that the railroad connecting Komsomolsk and the port city of Sovetskaya Gavan in Khabarovsk Krai, eastern Russia had completed. 
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25 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island arrived at San Diego, California, United States. 
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26 Jul 1945 WW2 Clement Attlee became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. 
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26 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Indianapolis delivered components of the atomic bomb "Little Boy" to Tinian, Mariana Islands. 
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26 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Charr arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her third war patrol. 
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26 Jul 1945 WW2 The Potsdam Ultimatum was issued, threatening Japan with "utter destruction" if it did not surrender unconditionally. 
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26 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Bugara sank 5 small enemy craft with her deck gun in the Gulf of Siam and South China Sea area during the day. 
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26 Jul 1945 WW2 Light carrier Hosho departed Kure, Japan for Moji, Japan. 
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26 Jul 1945 WW2 Counter-flooding allowed Settsu, already grounded at Etajima, Japan, to settle at even keel. 
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26 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Whale rescued downed aviators in the Pacific Ocean amidst floating naval mines. 
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26 Jul 1945 WW2 The results of the 5 Jul 1945 election in the United Kingdom was revealed, yielding a Labour Party victory over Winston Churchill's Conservative Party, 394 seats to 188 seats. As Churchill prepared to be replaced by Clement Attlee, many of his war time ministers had also lost their seats, including Air Minister (and later Prime Minister) Harold Macmillan. Throughout the world, there was much sympathy for the great wartime leader. The New York Daily News called him "The greatest Englishman of his time and one of the greatest of all time". 
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27 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Blenny reported sinking three small Japanese craft with the deck gun in the South China Sea off Malaya. 
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27 Jul 1945 WW2 USAAF bombers dropped 600,000 leaflets over 11 Japanese cities, warning civilians of bombing. 
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27 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Bugara sank 3 small enemy craft with her deck gun in the Gulf of Siam and South China Sea area during the day. 
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27 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Becuna arrived at Subic Bay, Luzon, Philippine Islands, ending her fifth war patrol. 
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27 Jul 1945 WW2 Six of the ten sections of USS ABSD-1 arrived at Manicani Bay, Samar, Philippine Islands. 
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27 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Menhaden departed New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. 
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27 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Shamrock Bay arrived at San Diego, California, United States. 
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28 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Cassin Young shot down two Japanese aircraft during a special attack, then proceeded to pick up 125 survivors of the sunken USS Callaghan. 
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28 Jul 1945 WW2 Japanese special attack aircraft sank USS Callaghan off Okinawa, Japan, which would prove to be the last victim of kamikaze tactics. 
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28 Jul 1945 WW2 The US Senate ratified the United Nations Charter. 
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28 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Bugara sank 4 small enemy craft with her deck gun in the Gulf of Siam and South China Sea area during the day and 1 more during the night. 
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28 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Sennet attacked a Japanese convoy in the Sea of Japan, sinking three ships, hitting them with 6 of 12 torpedoes fired. 
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28 Jul 1945 WW2 The remaining 27,000 men of the Japanese 28th Army in Burma began marching for Thailand. They would be harassed by aircraft from above and British troops and local tribal guerrilla fighters on the ground along the way. The crossing of the Sittang River alone would see more than 13,000 casualties, most of whom either wounded or killed by machine gunning or drowned in the current. 
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28 Jul 1945 WW2 Pilot Harold Watson and co-pilot Captain Fred McIntosh, supported by 8 additional crew members, flew a captured Ju 290 aircraft from Orly Field near Paris, France toward the United States. 
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28 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Parche arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her sixth war patrol. 
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28 Jul 1945 WW2 137 American P-47 aircraft based in Ie Shima, Okinawa, Japan attacked targest in Kyushu, Japan. On the same day, 471 B-29 bombers attacked smaller Japanese cities in the home islands with incendiary bombs. Finally, from the sea, US Navy TF 38 struck Inland Sea between Nagoya and northern Kyushu, sinking battleship Haruna, battleship-carrier Ise, heavy cruiser Aoba, and light cruiser Oyodo, and damaging carrier Katsuragi and carrier Hosho. 
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28 Jul 1945 WW2 Aoba, serving as a floating anti-aircraft battery at Kure in Japan, was attacked and sunk in shallow water. 
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28 Jul 1945 WW2 While beached on the island of Etajima, Hiroshima, Japan, Settsu was attacked by 3 US Navy carrier aircraft, suffering two direct bomb hits. 
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28 Jul 1945 WW2 Countess Margot Asquith, widow of the former Liberal Party Leader and Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith, passed away. 
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28 Jul 1945 WW2 A B-25D bomber crashed into the 79th and 80th floor on the north side of the Empire State Building in New York City, New York, United States at 0940 hours in a weather related accident. The air crew of 3, along with 11 people in the building, were killed; the damage was estimated to be about US$1,000,000. 
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29 Jul 1945 WW2 A special attack aircraft struck destroyer USS Cassin Young, killing 22 and injuring 45. 
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29 Jul 1945 WW2 American battleships USS South Dakota, USS Indiana, and USS Massachusetts began a two-day bombardment of Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. 
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29 Jul 1945 WW2 Japanese submarine I-58 sank cruiser USS Indianapolis; USS Indianapolis' prior order to maintain radio silence resulted in a 2-day delay in realization of her loss. 
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29 Jul 1945 WW2 A special attack Japanese biplane trainer aircraft crashed into destroyer USS Callaghan off Okinawa, Japan; Callaghan was to be the last American warship to be sunk by special attack aircraft in the war. 
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29 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Bugara sank 4 small enemy craft with her deck gun in the Gulf of Siam and South China Sea area during the day. 
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29 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Cabrilla attacked a Japanese patrol vessel with an acoustic seeking torpedo in the South China Sea; the torpedo missed. 
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29 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Sennet attacked a Japanese transport in the Sea of Japan; the single torpedo missed. 
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29 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Bluefish ended her ninth war patrol. 
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29 Jul 1945 WW2 Prisoner of war Dick Lanigan, who was injected with malaria-infected blood by Unit 731 doctor Captain Enosuke Hirano, died from the disease at Rabaul, New Britain. 
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29 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Spot arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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29 Jul 1945 WW2 B-25 bombers of US 5th Air Force damaged Japanese escort carrier Kaiyo at Hiji, Japan. 
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29 Jul 1945 WW2 The order to abandon Setsu in place at Etajima, Japan was given. 
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29 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Boarfish performed lifeguard duties off Singapore. 
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29 Jul 1945 WW2 Hans Fritzsche was transferred from the Friedrichshagen Prison in Berlin, Germany to Moscow, Russia. 
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30 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Blenny reported sinking two small Japanese craft with the deck gun in the South China Sea off Malaya. 
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30 Jul 1945 WW2 American battleships USS South Dakota, USS Indiana, and USS Massachusetts ended a two-day bombardment of Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Meanwhile, carrier fighters attacked airfields, railroads, and tactical targets in the Kobe-Osaka region. 
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30 Jul 1945 WW2 American, British, and French troops entered Vienna, Austria. 
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30 Jul 1945 WW2 The Japanese government instructed its citizens on how to prepare acorns for food. 
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30 Jul 1945 WW2 HMS King George V completed the bombardment of Hamamatsu, Honshu, Japan which began on the previous date; it was to be her final combat action of the war. 
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30 Jul 1945 WW2 Otto Skorzeny was transferred from Wiesbaden, Germany to the former Luftwaffe camp at Oberursel. 
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30 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Bugara sank 3 small enemy craft with her deck gun in the Gulf of Siam and South China Sea area during the day. 
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30 Jul 1945 WW2 Song Ziwen stepped down as the Minister of Foreign Affairs. 
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30 Jul 1945 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze suffered minor damage by an US air attack in Miyatsu Bay, Japan; one was killed. 
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30 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Sennet sank a Japanese transport in the Sea of Japan, hitting her with 2 of 3 torpedoes fired. 
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30 Jul 1945 WW2 Prisoner of war Don Atkiss, who was injected with malaria-infected blood by Unit 731 doctor Captain Enosuke Hirano, died from the disease at Rabaul, New Britain. 
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30 Jul 1945 WW2 Japanese beheaded 144 Dutch prisoners at Samarinda, Borneo, Dutch East Indies, but only after they had been forced to watch their wives being bayoneted or hacked to death with swords, and their children hurled down a mine shaft where all of the bodies were eventually dumped. 
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30 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Cero arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her eighth war patrol. 
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30 Jul 1945 WW2 Air Group 87 aircraft from USS Ticonderoga struck Honshu Island, Japan. 
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30 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Whale encountered a heavy storm east of Okino Shima, Japan. 
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30 Jul 1945 WW2 The assembly of the ten sections of USS ABSD-1 began at Manicani Bay, Samar, Philippine Islands. 
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31 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Blenny reported sinking two small Japanese craft with the deck gun in the South China Sea off Malaya. 
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31 Jul 1945 WW2 Operation Struggle: British midget submarine XE3, crewed by Lieutenant Ian Fraser, Acting Leading Seaman James Magennis, Sub-Lieutenant William James Lanyon Smith, (of New Zealand), and Engine Room Artificer Third Class Charles Alfred Reed, attacked Japanese shipping at Singapore, sinking heavy cruiser Takao. Fraser and Magennis would later be awarded the Victoria Cross for this sinking, while Smith would receive the Distinguished Service Order and Reed the Conspicuous Gallantry Medal. 
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31 Jul 1945 WW2 Pierre Laval surrendered in Austria. 
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31 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Bugara sank 1 small enemy craft with her deck gun in the Gulf of Siam and South China Sea area before dawn, and 4 more during the day. 
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31 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Sennet attacked a Japanese patrol boat in the Sea of Japan; all 3 torpedoes missed. 
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31 Jul 1945 WW2 Captain Marcy M. DuPre, Jr. was named the commanding officer of USS Columbia, relieving Captain Maurice E. Curts. 
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31 Jul 1945 WW2 Claire Chennault departed China for the United States. 
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31 Jul 1945 WW2 American PB4Y aircraft based in Okinawa, Japan destroyed a bridge on an important railway in Korea. 
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31 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Sunfish completed her scheduled overhaul at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States. 
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01 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Cod was strafed by a Japanese aircraft while she was boarding a small Japanese vessel. The submarine dove and escaped the area; the boarding party was rescued by submarine USS Blenny two days later. 
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01 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Blenny reported sinking three small Japanese craft with the deck gun in the South China Sea off Malaya. 
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01 Aug 1945 WW2 In the biggest air raid yet over Japan, 820 Superfortress bombers dropped 6,632 tons of high explosive bombs and incendiary bombs on four cities, bringing the total number of Japanese cities incinerated to 56. 
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01 Aug 1945 WW2 Naoshi Kanno was shot down in combat off the island of Yakushima south of Kyushu, Japan. 
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01 Aug 1945 WW2 The Chinese-American Composite Wing (Provisional) was inactivated. 
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01 Aug 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 52 arrived. 
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02 Aug 1945 WW2 On the island of Sado, off Honshu, Japan, 387 allied prisoners working as slave labourers in an ore mine were deliberately entombed and left to suffocate below ground when the Japanese blew up the facility and tried to obliterate any trace of the camp before the Allies inevitably arrive. 
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02 Aug 1945 WW2 Bernard Montgomery was awarded the Order of the Elephant of Denmark. 
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02 Aug 1945 WW2 Divers from USS Chanticleer discovered the wreck of destroyer Yuzuki under 70 feet of water near Cebu, Philippine Islands. Inspection operations by divers would last until 4 Aug 1945 to recover decoding machines in the radio shack. 
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02 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Bugara sank 1 small enemy craft with her deck gun in the Gulf of Siam and South China Sea area before dawn, and 5 more during the day. 
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02 Aug 1945 WW2 A number of survivors of cruiser USS Indianapolis, which was sunk 4 days prior, were found. 
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02 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Ray sank a small Japanese vessel in the Gulf of Thailand with her deck gun. 
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02 Aug 1945 WW2 Four of the ten sections of USS ABSD-1 arrived at Manicani Bay, Samar, Philippine Islands. 
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02 Aug 1945 WW2 King George VI met with President Harry Truman on board HMS Renown in Plymouth Sound. The US President had flown from Germany to an airport in Devon, England, United Kingdom, and had toured the city of Plymouth. 
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03 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Blenny reported sinking two small Japanese craft with the deck gun in the South China Sea off Malaya. 
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03 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Bugara sank 2 small enemy craft with her deck gun in the Gulf of Siam and South China Sea area during the day. 
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03 Aug 1945 WW2 Destroyers USS Conner and USS Charrette intercepted and boarded Japanese hospital ship Tachibana Maru at 0658 hours in the Banda Sea in the Dutch East Indies. Upon finding mortar shells hidden in boxes marked medical supplies, Marines were ordered to board and take control of the Japanese ship. 
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03 Aug 1945 WW2 Six Japanese vessels hit naval mines laid by American aircraft in home waters; three of them were sunk. 
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03 Aug 1945 WW2 John "Jack" Lawson was appointed the UK Secretary of State for War in the Atlee Cabinet. 
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03 Aug 1945 WW2 The J7W Shinden fighter took its first flight. 
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03 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Ray sank 3 small Japanese vessels in the Gulf of Thailand with her deck gun. 
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03 Aug 1945 WW2 Arthur Coningham was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal of the United States. 
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03 Aug 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 13 arrived. 
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03 Aug 1945 WW2 100 American fighters based in Iwo Jima, Japan attacked targets Tokyo, Japan. 
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04 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Blenny reported sinking a small Japanese craft with the deck gun in the South China Sea off Malaya. 
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04 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Macabi arrived at Apra Harbor, Guam, Mariana Islands for repairs. 
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04 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Bugara sank 3 small enemy craft with her deck gun in the Gulf of Siam and South China Sea area during the day. 
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04 Aug 1945 WW2 Japanese guards executed seven captured American airmen in Singapore. 
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04 Aug 1945 WW2 US Army B-25 bombers based on Okinawa, Japan attacked Takanabe, Kyushu, Japan, damaging or destroying warehouses, factories, railways, and a rail marshaling yard. 
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04 Aug 1945 WW2 In a public statement, Douglas MacArthur announced that "a mighty invasion force is being forged", referring to the seemingly impending invasion of the Japanese home islands. 
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04 Aug 1945 WW2 US bombers attacked Japanese positions at Surabaya, Java, Dutch East Indies. 
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04 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Carbonero departed the Philippine Islands for her second war patrol. 
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04 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Ray sank 3 small Japanese vessels in the Gulf of Thailand and 2 small Japanese vessels in the South China Sea with her deck gun. 
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04 Aug 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 52 departed. 
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04 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Whale arrived off Bungo Channel between Japanese islands of Kyushu and Shikoku. 
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04 Aug 1945 WW2 German prisoner of war Kurt Rossmeisl escaped from imprisonment in North Carolina, United States and evaded the immediate search. He would later board a train for Chicago, Illinois, United States, established a false identity as "Frank Ellis", and remained at large until 1959. 
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04 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Bergall arrived at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, United States. 
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05 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Blenny reported sinking 11 small Japanese craft with the deck gun in the South China Sea off Malaya. 
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05 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Bugara sank 4 small enemy craft with her deck gun in the Gulf of Siam and South China Sea area during the day. 
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05 Aug 1945 WW2 The missing items from the Holy Roman Empire Imperial Regalia collection were found hidden under a school in Nürnberg, Germany. 
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05 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Chub attacked a Japanese convoy in the Java Sea, sinking one ship with a torpedo and sinking a tug and a patrol vessel with her deck gun; two torpedoes were expended in the attack. 
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05 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Ray sank 2 small Japanese vessels in the South China Sea with her deck gun. 
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05 Aug 1945 WW2 The US Twentieth Air Force's meteorological service predicted good weather, on the following day, over the four targets (Hiroshima, Kokura, Niigata and Nagasaki in Japan) selected for attack with atomic weapon "Little Boy". 
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05 Aug 1945 WW2 In southern China, Chinese troops captured Danzhu, Guangxi and Xingning County, Guangdong. In northeastern China, Dr. Junod of the International Committee of the Red Cross visited a prisoner of war camp in Mukden; he complained that camp doctors and prisoners were not allowed to speak to him, and that he found many undistributed Red Cross packages. 
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05 Aug 1945 WW2 I-400 developed a electrical power while east of Saipan, Mariana Islands, which quickly developed into an electrical fire that caused the submarine to sink nearly out of control. The repairs took 5 hours to complete. The crew thought that they had surfaced just in time before they ran out of oxygen. 
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06 Aug 1945 WW2 Woo Yi passed away. 
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06 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Blenny reported sinking four small Japanese craft with the deck gun in the South China Sea off Malaya. 
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06 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Bugara sank 4 small enemy craft with her deck gun in the Gulf of Siam and South China Sea area during the day and 1 more during the night. 
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06 Aug 1945 WW2 The US submarine Bullhead was sunk by Japanese aircraft in the Java Sea. 
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06 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Sea Cat departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first fifth patrol. 
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06 Aug 1945 WW2 Hiroshima, Japan was destroyed by the first atomic bomb, "Little Boy". About 70,000 to 80,000 were killed immediately, while about 70,000 were injured. 
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06 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Boarfish departed Malayan waters. 
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06 Aug 1945 WW2 Major Dick Bong, with 40 kills to his credit over the Pacific and his country's top scoring fighter ace of the war, and the holder of the Medal of Honor, was killed at the age of 24 when the Lockheed Shooting Star in which he was carrying out test flights stalled on takeoff and crashed in Burbank, California, United States. 
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07 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Blenny reported sinking four small Japanese craft with the deck gun in the South China Sea off Malaya. 
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07 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Gar departed Apra Harbor, Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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07 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Bugara sank 2 small enemy craft with her deck gun in the Gulf of Siam and South China Sea area during the day. 
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07 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Pintado departed Guam, Mariana Islands for her sixth and final war patrol on lifeguard station off Japan. 
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07 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Ray sank 17 small craft with her deck gun off Saponnoi, Thailand; several hours later, she dispatched boarding parties to scuttle seven junks north of Lem Chong Pra, Thailand by fire. 
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07 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Rock arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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07 Aug 1945 WW2 The Japanese Nakajima J8N-1 Kikka (Orange Blossom) naval special attack aircraft made its maiden flight at Kisarazu Naval Airfield in Japan with Lieutenant Commander Susumu Takaoka at the controls. The Kikka aircraft, a single-seat twin-jet attack aircraft was based on the German Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter. 
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08 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Blenny reported sinking 11 small Japanese craft with the deck gun in the South China Sea off Malaya. 
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08 Aug 1945 WW2 At 2300 hours, the Soviet Union tore up the non-aggression treaty with Japan and declared war; the invasion would begin 61 minutes later at the start of the following day. 
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08 Aug 1945 WW2 US President Harry Truman signed the United Nations Charter, making the US the third nation to join the new organization. 
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08 Aug 1945 WW2 US President Truman threatened Japan with further nuclear devastation during a radio address. 
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08 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Manta departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her second war patrol. 
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08 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Cassin Young departed Okinawa, Japan for San Pedro, California, United States. 
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08 Aug 1945 WW2 About 60 American B-29 bombers attacked aircraft factories and arsenals near Tokyo, Japan. 
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08 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Whale made rendezvous with USS Dragonet in the Pacific Ocean and received a rescued pilot. 
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08 Aug 1945 WW2 US B-24 bombers based in the Philippine Islands struck Shinchiku Airfield (now Hsinchu), Taiwan. 
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08 Aug 1945 WW2 United States, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, and France signed the London Charter of the International Military Tribunal in London, England, United Kingdom. The chief prosecutors from these four nations met for the first time. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Blenny reported sinking three small Japanese craft with the deck gun in the South China Sea off Malaya. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 258 British Avenger, Corsair, Hellcat, Firefly, and Seafire carrier aircraft of Task Force 37 expended more than 120 tons of bombs and cannon shells on targets in and near the Japanese home islands. Meanwhile, American battleships USS South Dakota, USS Indiana, and USS Massachusetts bombarded Kamaishi, Iwate, Japan. 850 16-inch shells from battleships, 1,440 8-inch shells from cruisers, and 2,500 5-inch shells from destroyers were fired. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 At one minute after midnight, Soviet troops crossed the border into northeastern China, which was administered by the Japanese-sponsored puppet state of Manchukuo. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 Canadian Lieutenant Robert Hampton Gray won the last Victoria Cross of the war (posthumously) when his Corsair fighter-bomber was shot down in flames off the Japanese mainland during an attack on the destroyer, Amakusa, which he sank. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Hawkbill arrived at Borneo, Dutch East Indies and destroyed the Japanese radio station at Tambelan. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Sennet ended her fuorth war patrol. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Chub sank a small Japanese vessel in the Java Sea with her deck gun. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 Medical staff aboard USS Alabama visited destroyers USS Ault and USS Borie to provide medical assistance. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 Du Yuming arrived at Chongqing, China to meet with Chiang Kaishek, planning for a campaign against General Long Yun of Yunnan Province, China. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Sunfish arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 Air Group 87 aircraft from USS Ticonderoga struck Honshu, Japan. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 B-29 bomber Bockscar dropped the atomic bomb "Fat Man" on the city of Nagasaki, Japan, killing 40,000 to 75,000 immediately. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Whale made rendezvous with USS Blackfish in the Pacific Ocean and received 16 rescued aviators. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Wasp was nearly hit by a Japanese special attack aircraft off Japan. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 On Mindanao in the Philippines, captured Japanese Army officer Minoru Wada flew with US Marine Mitchell bombers to guide them to the Japanese Army 100th Infantry Division headquarters. The complex was destroyed and the fighting on Mindanao ended. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 US B-24 bombers attacked Matsuyama Airfield in Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Sargent Bay arrived at San Pedro, Los Angeles, California for overhaul. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Mingo completed her overhaul at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States. 
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10 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Blenny reported sinking six small Japanese craft with the deck gun in the South China Sea off Malaya. 
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10 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Caiman sank a Japanese schooner by gunfire in the southern South China Sea. 
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10 Aug 1945 WW2 Faced with the threat of more atomic bombs and the menace of the Soviets, Japan announced that it was willing to surrender provided the future status of the Emperor could be assured. 
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10 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Carbonero sank two schooners and a sampan with her deck gun in the Gulf of Siam-South China Sea area. 
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10 Aug 1945 WW2 About 50 P-47 and P-51 fighters of the US 14th Air Force attacked Japanese road and river traffic, railroads, and bridges across a large area in southeastern China. 
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10 Aug 1945 WW2 70 American B-29 bombers attacked the arsenal complex near Tokyo, Japan. 
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10 Aug 1945 WW2 Air Group 87 aircraft from USS Ticonderoga struck Hokkaido, Japan. 
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10 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Boarfish arrived at Subic Bay, Philippine Islands, ending her fourth war patrol. 
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10 Aug 1945 WW2 US B-24 bombers based in the Philippine Islands struck the city of Shinchiku (now Hsinchu), Taiwan. 
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10 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Segundo departed Midway Atoll for her fifth war patrol in the Sea of Okhotsk off the Kurile Islands. She was tasked to monitor Soviet activity in northern Japan. 
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11 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Blenny reported sinking three small Japanese craft with the deck gun in the South China Sea off Malaya. 
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11 Aug 1945 WW2 US Secretary of State James Byrnes rejected the Japanese surrender terms offered on the previous day, citing the refusal for any Japanese preconditions. Meanwhile, American aircraft continued conventional bombing of Japanese cities. 
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11 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Carbonero sank a sampan with her deck gun in the Gulf of Siam-South China Sea area. 
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11 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Chub attacked a Japanese convoy in the Java Sea with her deck gun, sinking one small ship and damaging a patrol vessel. 
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11 Aug 1945 WW2 Du Yuming arrived at Kunming, Yunnan Province, China. 
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11 Aug 1945 WW2 I-402 suffered a punctured fuel tank during an American air attack on Kure, Japan. 
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11 Aug 1945 WW2 The J8N-1 Kikka prototype jet fighter was damaged at Kisarazu Naval Airfield in Japan after a RATO-related take-off accident and the war ended before repairs could be completed. 
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11 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Whale set sail for Saipan, Mariana Islands. 
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12 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Tirante departed Guam, Mariana Islands for her third war patrol. 
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12 Aug 1945 WW2 Soviet forces in the Manchuria region of northeastern China had advanced 200 miles in four days. Meanwhile, Soviet Pacific Fleet attacked northern Korea, seizing the Japanese naval base at Rashin and the port of Yuki. 
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12 Aug 1945 WW2 Emperor Showa ordered his government to surrender. 
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12 Aug 1945 WW2 The Smyth Report, written by American physicist Henry DeWolf Smyth, with the history of the development of the atomic weapons, was released to the public. 
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12 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Carbonero sank a junk with her deck gun in the Gulf of Siam-South China Sea area. 
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12 Aug 1945 WW2 The Ohka Model 22 variant design's second test flight was launched but canceled mid-flight due to an immature ignition of the jet engine. 
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12 Aug 1945 WW2 He Yingqin arrived in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China. 
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12 Aug 1945 WW2 US B-24 bombers from Okinawa, Japan attacked Matsuyama Airfield in Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan. 
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13 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Cod returned to Fremantle, Australia, ending her seventh war patrol. 
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13 Aug 1945 WW2 Mongolia declared war on Japan. 
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13 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Macabi departed Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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13 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Croaker arrived at Subic Bay, Philippine Islands, ending her sixth and final war patrol. 
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13 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Carbonero sank two schooners with her deck gun in the Gulf of Siam-South China Sea area. 
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13 Aug 1945 WW2 He Yingqin arrived in Chongqing, China. 
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13 Aug 1945 WW2 While in China, Milton Miles was promoted to the war time rank of rear admiral, thus becoming the highest ranked US Navy officer in China. 
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13 Aug 1945 WW2 Air Group 87 aircraft from USS Ticonderoga struck Tokyo, Japan. 
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13 Aug 1945 WW2 Lieutenant Oscar Perdomo of 507th Fighter Group of US 20th Air Force, became the last air ace of the war when he destroyed five Japanese fighters during an offensive sweep over Kyushu island, Japan. 
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13 Aug 1945 WW2 I-400 reached the location south of Ulithi, Caroline Islands and waited for I-401 to arrive; her commanding officer did not realize that the rendezvous point had changed to another location 1,000 miles to the west. 
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13 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Ray arrived at US Naval Base Subic Bay, Philippine Islands to replenish her stock of ammunition; her patrol was called off while in port. 
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14 Aug 1945 WW2 More than 150 Burmese civilians held by the Japanese on Tarmugli in the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal were shot or bayoneted by their captors. 
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14 Aug 1945 WW2 The US government ordered the resumption of civilian automobile production. 
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14 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Carbonero sank a junk with her deck gun in the Gulf of Siam-South China Sea area. 
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14 Aug 1945 WW2 Song Ziwen and Vyacheslav Molotov signed the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance at Moscow, Russia, affirming that the Soviet Union recognized the Chinese Nationalist Party as the legitimate ruler of China (as opposed to the Chinese Communists), and that Outer Mongolia region of China was to become independence (ie. under Soviet control). 
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14 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Hackleback departed Guam, Mariana Islands for her third war patrol. 
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14 Aug 1945 WW2 Air Group 87 aircraft from USS Ticonderoga struck Tokyo, Japan. 
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14 Aug 1945 WW2 The last Japanese aircraft destroyed prior to Emperor Showa's radio address was a C6N1 Saiun aircraft, shot down about five minutes before the announcement. 
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14 Aug 1945 WW2 The Japanese Imperial Council accepted Emperor Showa's order to surrender to the Allies powers' surrender terms. In turn, Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki notified the Allies that Japan was accepting the Potsdam Declaration. 
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14 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Whale arrived at Saipan, Mariana Islands. 
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14 Aug 1945 WW2 Seven aircraft of the Oita Detachment, 701st Air Group, Japanese Navy made the last operational suicide sortie of the war, led by Admiral Matome Ugaki, commander of the 5th Air fleet. 
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14 Aug 1945 WW2 In the evening, I-401 arrived at the rendezvous point south of Ulithi, Caroline Islands but did not find I-400; at this time, I-400 was actually at the incorrect location 1,000 miles to the east. 
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14 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Ray departed US Naval Base Subic Bay, Philippine Islands. 
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15 Aug 1945 WW2 The British government released details of one of most closely guarded secrets of war, radar. 
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15 Aug 1945 WW2 Seafire aircraft of 887 and 894 Naval Air Squadrons of the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm downed seven A6M5 Zero fighters at the cost of one Seafire fighter. 
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15 Aug 1945 WW2 VJ Day was declared in Britain. 
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15 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Hoe arrived at Apra Harbor, Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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15 Aug 1945 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze was assigned to Destroyer Division 41, Escort Squadron 31, Combined Fleet. 
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15 Aug 1945 WW2 Chiang Kaishek made a radio address from the facilities of the Broadcasting System (forerunner of today's Broadcasting Corporation of China located in Taiwan, Republic of China) in Chongqing, China, noting that China must not seek revenge against the defeated Japan, for violence would only yield more violence. 
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15 Aug 1945 WW2 Air Group 87 aircraft from USS Ticonderoga were launched for a strike on Tokyo, Japan, but the mission was aborted while en route due to the Japanese surrender. 
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15 Aug 1945 WW2 Emperor Showa addressed his nation via radio, announcing the end of the war. Meanwhile, the Japanese government informed the Allies its willingness to meet the unconditional surrender terms. In response, the US government ordered all hostilities to cease in Asia. A group of Japanese Army officers made a coup d'état attempt by attacking the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan; it ended in failure. 
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15 Aug 1945 WW2 Marquis Hironobu was promoted to the rank of commander. 
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15 Aug 1945 WW2 Kiyoshi Ito saw his final combat mission of the war over central Japan. 
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15 Aug 1945 WW2 I-401 received conflicting orders, one from Emperor Showa ordering her to surrender, another from naval leadership ordering all submarines to carry out existing orders. Tatsunosuke Ariizumi, commanding officer of 6th Fleet who was aboard the submarine, chose to follow the latter. 
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15 Aug 1945 WW2 I-400 received orders from Emperor Showa to return to Japan to surrender to the Americans; Commander Toshio Kusaka, commanding officer of I-400, chose to obey the order despite receiving conflicting others from naval leadership. 
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15 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Wasp fired her anti-aircraft guns at attacking Japanese aircraft for the final time in the war. 
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16 Aug 1945 WW2 Soviets captured Emperor Kangde, puppet emperor of Manchukuo. 
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16 Aug 1945 WW2 Winston Churchill delivered an address warning of the communist "iron curtain" dividing Eastern and Western Europe. 
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16 Aug 1945 WW2 British Admiral Bruce Fraser awarded William Halsey the Order of the Knight of the British Empire aboard USS Missouri. 
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16 Aug 1945 WW2 British Admiral Bruce Fraser visited USS Missouri. 
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16 Aug 1945 WW2 Warrant Officer Torataro Matsumoto officially declared all Allied prisoners of war at Rabaul, New Britain free. 
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16 Aug 1945 WW2 Jonathan Wainwright was liberated from Japanese captivity in Liaoyuan, Liaobei Province, China. 
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16 Aug 1945 WW2 Takijiro Onishi committed ritual suicide in his quarters. 
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16 Aug 1945 WW2 At 2100 hours, I-401 received specific orders to set sail for Kure, Japan; this order came through just as the submarine was preparing to launch Seiran attack aircraft against the US anchorage at Ulithi, Caroline Islands (Operation Arashi). Tatsunosuke Ariizumi, commanding officer of 6th Fleet who was aboard the submarine and who previously continued the operation despite the country's surrender, now chose to obey. Instead of Kure, however, he set sail for the Sanriku coast in northeastern Honshu island so that the officers and men could disappear into the population rather than having to surrender dishonorably. 
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16 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Hackleback set sail for Midway Atoll. 
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17 Aug 1945 WW2 U-977 arrived at Mar del Plata, Argentina and surrendered to the Argentine Navy. 
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17 Aug 1945 WW2 Prince Naruhiko of Higashikuni was named the 43rd Prime Minister of Japan. Among the new government's first actions was to appeal to General MacArthur to help stop the offensive still being pursued by the Soviet Union. 
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17 Aug 1945 WW2 A death sentence on Marshal Philippe Pétain, former head of the Vichy French Government, was commuted to life imprisonment. 
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17 Aug 1945 WW2 The American government drafted plans for the swift conversion of factories from war to commercial production following predictions that five million will be unemployed in six months and nine million within a year. 
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17 Aug 1945 WW2 In the United States, petrol rationing was removed. Fuel rationing would not be lifted in the United Kingdom until May 1950. 
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17 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Bugara arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her third and final war patrol. 
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17 Aug 1945 WW2 Vice Admiral Ryunosuke Kusaka was name the commanding officer of the Japanese Navy 5th Air Fleet. 
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17 Aug 1945 WW2 Joseph Stalin ordered Aleksandr Vasilevsky to continue the fighting with Japan despite of the Japanese intention to surrender. 
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17 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Chub arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her third and final war patrol. 
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17 Aug 1945 WW2 Sukarno, the pro-Japanese independence leader in the former Dutch East Indies proclaimed a Provisional Indonesian Republic government on Java; armed conflicts ensued for the following four years. 
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17 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Springer departed Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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17 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Gabilan arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her sixth and final war patrol, during which she rescued 17 downed American aviators, 3 of whom were picked up inside of Tokyo Bay, Japan prior to the Japanese surrender. 
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17 Aug 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 36 arrived. 
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17 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Dragonet arrived at Saipan, Mariana Islands, ending her third war patrol. 
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17 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Mero was commissioned into service with Commander John H. Turner in command. 
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18 Aug 1945 WW2 Americans began parachuting medical and aid teams into selected prisoners of war camps in the Japanese home islands. 
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18 Aug 1945 WW2 In the Manchuria region of northeastern China, nearly 4,000 Japanese troops surrendered at Hailar, effectively ending organised resistance. Far to the northeast, Soviet troops landed on Paramushiro, Kurile Islands, Japan. 
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18 Aug 1945 WW2 Guo Fengwu, the deputy commander of the 24th Pursuit Squadron of the Chinese Air Force, flew over Guisui, Suiyuan (now Hohhot, Inner Mongolia), China and dropped leaflets containing a transcript of Emperor Showa's 15 Aug 1945 radio address. He was shot down by Japanese anti-aircraft fire and became the final Chinese Air Force casualty of the war. 
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18 Aug 1945 WW2 Soviet First Deputy Commissar for Foreign Affairs Andrei Vyshinsky submitted a list of names of Germans who could be sent to the Nuremberg Trials to his superior Vyacheslav Molotov. The list consisted of Ferdinand Schörner, Hans Fritzche, Hans-Erich Voß, Adolf Beckerle, and Reiner Stahel. 
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18 Aug 1945 WW2 The last air conflict of WW2 took place over Tokyo, Japan. Two US reconnaissance aircraft were attacked by fighters and flak. One American crewman was killed and two fighters were shot down. 
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18 Aug 1945 WW2 Subhash Chandra Bose was killed during an air crash off Taiwan. 
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19 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Caiman arrived at Subic Bay, Zambales, Philippine Islands, ending her fourth war patrol. 
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19 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Segundo reconnoitered waters off the Kurile Islands, monitoring Soviet activity. 
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19 Aug 1945 WW2 In Burma the Communists split away from the AFO (Anti-Fascist Organisation) leaving Aung San's AFPFL (Anti-Fascist Peoples Freedom League) to lead the campaign for independence. 
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19 Aug 1945 WW2 Soviet SMERSH operatives convinced General Otozo Yamada to surrender at Xinjing (Changchun), China. 
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19 Aug 1945 WW2 Hiroshi Nemoto was named the commanding officer of the Japanese North China Area Army while still retaining his command over the Japanese Mongolian Garrison Army. 
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19 Aug 1945 WW2 Ho Chi Mihn, backed by Vo Nguyen Giap's 30,000-strong Chu Luc force, took over control of Hanoi, Vietnam, French Indochina. 
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19 Aug 1945 WW2 Japanese troops were told by their government that surrendering under the terms of a ceasefire would not be considered a loss of honour under the Bushido code which demanded fighting to the death. As a result thousands began laying down their arms. Meanwhile, more than 100 Allied warships waited off the coast of Japan for the order to enter her ports. 
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20 Aug 1945 WW2 Soviet forces declared the cities of Mukden, Changchun, and Qiqihar in northeastern China secure. 
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20 Aug 1945 WW2 He Yingqin arrived in Zhijiang, Hunan Province, China and met with China Expeditionary Army representative Takeo Imai to negotiate surrender terms. 
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20 Aug 1945 WW2 The final naval engagement of WW2 took place along the Chinese coast between Wenzhou and Shanghai between a Japanese-manned junk equipped with a howitzer and two smaller Sino-American junks each equipped with a bazooka (five rounds each) and various small arms. The Allies were of the US Navy Sino-American Special Technical Cooperative Organization (SACO) organization. The Japanese junk surrendered after 44 of its 83-men crew were killed; 35 were wounded. 4 Chinese were killed on the Allied side; 4 Chinese and 1 American were wounded. This was also the last US Navy engagement in a vessel powered by sail. 
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20 Aug 1945 WW2 I-401 received orders to report in with her current location. Tatsunosuke Ariizumi, commanding officer of 6th Fleet who was aboard the submarine, did not respond. 
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20 Aug 1945 WW2 Joseph Stalin signed the final GKO order (No. 9887) making Lavrentiy Beria the head of State Committees No. 1 (atomic research), No. 2 (jet engine research), and No. 3 (radio location equipment development); he no longer held direct authority over counterintelligence. 
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20 Aug 1945 WW2 Pavel Meshik was named the deputy head of the Soviet 1st Main Directorate for the construction of atomic weapons. 
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20 Aug 1945 WW2 Percy Hobart's British 79th (Experimental) Armoured Division Royal Engineers was disbanded. 
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21 Aug 1945 WW2 US President Harry Truman canceled all contracts under the Lend-Lease Act. 
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21 Aug 1945 WW2 The first major Japanese surrender ceremony in China took place at the Zhijiang Airfield in Zhijiang County, Hunan Province at 1600 hours. 
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21 Aug 1945 WW2 Xiao Yisu accepted the Japanese surrender at Zhijiang, Hunan Province, China, and for the following two weeks prepared for the main surrender to be taken place in the capital of Nanjing. 
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21 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Missouri dispatched a 200-men party to USS Iowa for temporary duty with the initial occupation force for Tokyo, Japan. 
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21 Aug 1945 WW2 The Oka Prisoners of War Camp in northern Taiwan was closed. 
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21 Aug 1945 WW2 At Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States, American physicist Harry Daghlian, Jr. of the Manhattan Project accidentally dropped a tungsten carbide brick onto a plutonium bomb core and received a fatal dose of 510 rems of radiation. 
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22 Aug 1945 WW2 Japanese forces in the Manchuria region of northeastern China surrendered. In the two-week campaign, the Japanese had lost 80,000 killed and wounded and 54,000 taken prisoner, including 143 generals. The Soviets had lost 8,200 dead and 22,000 wounded. 
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22 Aug 1945 WW2 The Yugoslavian parliament decreed that all arable land over 75 acres would be taken over by the state and be given to former partisan and wounded soldiers. 
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22 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Pompon departed Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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22 Aug 1945 WW2 Bob Feller was discharged from the US Navy. 
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23 Aug 1945 WW2 Douglas MacArthur ordered 5,000 Filipino internees in Manila, Philippine Islands freed. 
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23 Aug 1945 WW2 A new British colonial administration departed Colombo, Ceylon for Singapore. 
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23 Aug 1945 WW2 The United Kingdom ratified the United Nations Charter. 
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23 Aug 1945 WW2 The Soviet Union announced that all Japanese resistance in the Manchuria region of northeastern China had ceased. Meanwhile, Soviet troops received the surrender of the Japanese garrison at Paramushiro, Kurile Islands. 
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23 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Sterlet arrived at Midway, ending her fifth war patrol. 
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23 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Tirante arrived at Midway Atoll. 
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24 Aug 1945 WW2 Shizuichi Tanaka committed suicide by firing a pistol into his heart. 
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24 Aug 1945 WW2 Japan agreed that the first Allied troops on the homeland would be paratroopers. 
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24 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Segundo was ordered to sail for Tokyo Bay, Japan. 
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24 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Whale arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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24 Aug 1945 WW2 The Kukutsu Prisoners of War Camp in northern Taiwan was closed. 
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24 Aug 1945 WW2 The city of Cleveland, Ohio, United States honored Bob Feller with a parade; hours later, he played in his first professional post-WW2 baseball game. 
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25 Aug 1945 WW2 Willis Lee passed away. 
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25 Aug 1945 WW2 John Birch passed away. 
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25 Aug 1945 WW2 Jonathan Wainwright arrived at Chongqing, China. 
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25 Aug 1945 WW2 Soviet UKR SMERSH agents captured Cossack leader Lieutenant General D. F. Semenov at Dalian, Liaoning, China. 
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25 Aug 1945 WW2 Emperor Bao Dai abdicated, ending Nguyen Dynasty Vietnam. 
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25 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Pintado arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her sixth and final war patrol. 
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25 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Miami arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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25 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Wasp sailed through a typhoon in the Pacific Ocean. 
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25 Aug 1945 WW2 The Churon Temporary Prisoners of War Camp in northern Taiwan was opened. 
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25 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Mero departed from port and prepared for her shakedown cruise. 
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26 Aug 1945 WW2 Former Allied prisoners of war in mainland China were air-dropped supplies. 
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26 Aug 1945 WW2 Soviet forces occupied the Kurile Islands north of Japan and took the first of what would become 63,000 prisoners of war. 
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26 Aug 1945 WW2 Vice Admiral Sadayoshi Yamada was named the commanding officer of the Japanese Navy 3rd Air Fleet, with Captain Chihaya Takahashi as his chief of staff. 
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26 Aug 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 52 arrived. Air Group 13 departed. 
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26 Aug 1945 WW2 I-400 dumped all of her ammunition and Seiran aircraft overboard according to orders. 
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26 Aug 1945 WW2 I-401 dumped all of her ammunition and Seiran aircraft overboard according to orders. 
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26 Aug 1945 WW2 The Shirakawa Prisoners of War Camp in southern Taiwan was closed. 
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27 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Iowa arrived at Sagami Bay, Japan. 
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27 Aug 1945 WW2 Lavrentiy Beria added more names to the list of possible German leaders to be sent to Nuremberg, Germany to stand trials; the previous list had been prepared by Vyacheslav Molotov's foreign ministry several days prior. Beria's additions included Erich Raeder, Martin Mutschmann, Friedrich Gustav Bernhardt, Hilmar Moser, Johann Georg Richert, Wilhelm Robert Oksmann, Hans Julius Traut, Günther Walter Klammt, and Friedrich Jeckeln. 
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27 Aug 1945 WW2 He Yingqin began an inspection tour of several Chinese cities including Xi'an, Shaanxi Province and Nancheng, Jiangxi Province to oversee the Japanese surrender process. 
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27 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Macabi arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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27 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Spot departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for San Diego, California, United States. 
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27 Aug 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 36 departed. 
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27 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Saint Paul arrived in Sagami Wan southwest of Tokyo, Japan. 
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27 Aug 1945 WW2 I-400 was spotted in the Pacific Ocean by US Navy pilot Lieutenant Robert Mahoney flying a TBM Avenger aircraft. Commander Toshio Kusaka attempted to speed up to escape, but ultimately was ordered by his superiors to cooperate. 
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27 Aug 1945 WW2 The Maruyama Temporary Prisoners of War Camp in Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan was opened. 
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28 Aug 1945 WW2 Indictments were made against accused Nazi German war criminals. 
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28 Aug 1945 WW2 Soviet troops landed at Rubetzu Bay on Iturup, Kurile Islands, Japan, as well as nearby islands of Kunashir, Shikotan, Sibotzu, Taraku-Shima, Uri-Shima, Akiuri, and Suiseto. 
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28 Aug 1945 WW2 The minesweeper USS Logic was transferred to the Republic of China (renamed Yung Shun) under the Lend-Lease programme. 
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28 Aug 1945 WW2 The minesweeper USS Lucid was transferred to the Republic of China (renamed Yung Ting) under the Lend-Lease programme. 
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28 Aug 1945 WW2 The minesweeper USS Magnet was transferred to the Republic of China (renamed Yung Ning) under the Lend-Lease programme. 
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28 Aug 1945 WW2 In Japan, an advance guard of 150 US airborne troops landed at Atsuki airfield outside Tokyo; they were the first Allied troops to set foot on the Japanese mainland. 
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28 Aug 1945 WW2 The battleship HMS Nelson anchored off Penang to take the Japanese surrender in Malaya. 
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28 Aug 1945 WW2 Destroyers USS Blue and USS Mansfield intercepted I-400, which was discovered on the previous day, in the Pacific Ocean. USS Blue sent a 37-man boarding party and secured the submarine. Destroyer USS Weaver of US 20th Submarine Squadron arrived on the scene later, however, and forcibly took over the situation, claiming authority due to the personnel's submarine expertise. 
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28 Aug 1945 WW2 US B-29 bombers dropped food onto the grounds of the Churon Temporary Prisoners of War Camp in northern Taiwan; three prisoners were accidentally killed by falling 50-gallon drums. 
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29 Aug 1945 WW2 Lieutenant Commander Carl Pfeifer became the commanding officer of USS Cassin Young. 
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29 Aug 1945 WW2 Douglas MacArthur was ordered to exercise authority through the Japanese government, thus giving him authority over Emperor Showa. In this capacity, he would oversee the drafting a new constitution, redistribution of land, disbanding monopolistic Zaibatsu firms, among other major initiatives. 
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29 Aug 1945 WW2 A US B-29 bomber was shot down by the Soviets as it attempted to drop supplies to former POWs. 
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29 Aug 1945 WW2 The United States stopped drafting citizens for the military. 
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29 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Charr departed Fremantle, Australia. 
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29 Aug 1945 WW2 US Army Air Forces returned the control of Xinjin Airfield in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China to the Chinese Air Force. 
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29 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Finback departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for New London, Connecticut, United States. 
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29 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Sunfish departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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29 Aug 1945 WW2 US troops made an administrative landing near Tokyo, Japan, starting the occupation. 
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29 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Missouri entered Tokyo Bay, Japan. 
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29 Aug 1945 WW2 Gregory Boyington was liberated from the Omori Prison Camp in Tokyo, Japan. 
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29 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Segundo halted Japanese submarine I-401 less than 200 miles southeast of Honshu island, Japan and escorted her toward Sagami Wan, Japan. 
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29 Aug 1945 WW2 The Four Power Commission of Prosecutors in London, England, United Kingdom presented the first list of German war criminals to be tried at Nürnberg, Germany. 
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30 Aug 1945 WW2 Submarine I-369 was surrendered to the Americans. 
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30 Aug 1945 WW2 Zang Shiyi was captured by Soviet troops. 
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30 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Whale departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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30 Aug 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 63 departed. 
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30 Aug 1945 WW2 A British battle squadron led by the aircraft carrier Indomitable entered Hong Kong to reoccupy the Crown Colony. 
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30 Aug 1945 WW2 The main Allied forces began going ashore on mainland Japan. 
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30 Aug 1945 WW2 Douglas MacArthur arrived at Atsugi Airfield near Tokyo, Japan. 
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30 Aug 1945 WW2 USS San Diego arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. 
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30 Aug 1945 WW2 Jonathan Wainwright arrived at Manila, Philippine Islands. 
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31 Aug 1945 WW2 Battleship Yamato was removed from the Japanese Navy list. 
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31 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Cod departed Fremantle, Australia. 
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31 Aug 1945 WW2 Truman wrote Attlee, requesting the United Kingdom to accept the immigration of 100,000 European Jews into Palestine. 
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31 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Segundo arrived at Sagami Wan, Japan at 0500 hours and was relieved of the duty of escorting the captured Japanese submarine I-401. 
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31 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Cabrilla departed Fremantle, Australia for the United States. 
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31 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Brill departed Fremantle, Australia. 
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31 Aug 1945 WW2 Shokaku was removed from the Japanese Navy List. 
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31 Aug 1945 WW2 At 0500 hours, Japanese submarine I-401 lowered its naval ensign while in Sagami Wan, Japan. Nobukiyo Nambu, the submarine's commanding officer, secretly ordered his signal officer to burn the flag to prevent US capture. The US naval ensign was soon hoisted. 
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31 Aug 1945 WW2 Around 1,000 Allied prisoners of war from camps in the Tokyo, Japan area were transferred to hospital ships offshore. 
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31 Aug 1945 WW2 MacArthur established the Supreme Allied Command in Tokyo, Japan. 
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31 Aug 1945 WW2 Tatsunosuke Ariizumi committed suicide aboard submarine I-401 by taking a pistol to his mouth at 0420 hours. He was buried at sea in a ceremony that somehow evaded the US boarding party. 
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01 Sep 1945 WW2 British colonial secretary Franklin Gimson established a temporary government in Hong Kong. 
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01 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Saint Paul arrived in Tokyo Bay, Japan. 
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01 Sep 1945 WW2 Two US Marine Corps aircraft dropped surrender terms to the Japanese garrisons on Wotje and Maloelap Atolls in the Marshall Islands. 
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01 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Menhaden departed Balboa, Panama Canal Zone. 
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02 Sep 1945 WW2 Ho Chi Minh proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in Hanoi. 
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02 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Missouri hosted the official ceremony during which Japan surrendered to the Allies. 
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02 Sep 1945 WW2 V-J Day: Japan signed the surrender document aboard USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. 
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02 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Marcus Island arrived at Alameda, California, United States. 
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03 Sep 1945 WW2 General Tomoyuki Yamashita surrendered Japanese troops in the Philippine Islands to US Army General Jonathan Wainwright. 
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03 Sep 1945 WW2 British doctors parachuted into Singapore ahead of a Royal Navy fleet. 
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03 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Segundo departed Tokyo Bay, Japan for the west coast of the United States. 
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03 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Trepang arrived at San Diego, California, United States. 
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03 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Spot was assigned to anti-submarine warfare training at San Diego, California, United States. 
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04 Sep 1945 WW2 RAF aircraft dropped fresh uniforms and 88,000 Red Cross parcels on POW camps throughout the South East Asia region. 
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04 Sep 1945 WW2 Japanese troops on Wake Island surrendered. 
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04 Sep 1945 WW2 Seishiro Itagaki surrendered to Allied troops in Singapore. 
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04 Sep 1945 WW2 Dai Li, with Chiang Kaishek's support, dissolved the Sino-American Special Technical Cooperative Organization (SACO) as its mission had been concluded successfully. 
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04 Sep 1945 WW2 Milton Miles arrived in Shanghai, China by aircraft to prepared for the arrival of the US Navy 7th Fleet. 
0
04 Sep 1945 WW2 The Soviet State Defense Committee, GKO, was disbanded. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 British and Indian troops re-entered Singapore where they liberated 33,000 prisoners of war. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Blackfin arrived at Apra, Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 Iva Toguri D'Aquino was arrested in Yokohama, Japan. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Missouri was relieved of duty as Admiral William Halsey's flagship. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 Soviet Politburo approved the formation of "The Commission on the Guidance of Preparation of Indictment Materials and Activity of Soviet Representatives at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg", or "Governmental Commission on Nuremberg Trials" for short, with foreign ministry deputy commissar Andrei Vyshinsky at its helm, to provide direction to the Soviet prosecutors. The members of the commission included Vsevolod Merkulov, Bogdan Kobulov, Viktor Abakumov, Konstantin Gorshenin, Ivan Golyakov, and Nikolai Safonov. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 Destroyer HMAS Vendetta entered Simpson Harbor, New Britain in preparation of the surrender ceremony. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 Nobutake Kondo was transferred to the Japanese Navy Reserve. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Wisconsin arrived in Tokyo Bay, Japan. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Alabama entered Tokyo Bay, Japan. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 Marquis Hironobu was promoted to the rank of captain. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Boarfish departed Subic Bay, Philippine Islands. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 Governor Manuel de Abreu Ferreira de Carvalho received the transfer of power over Portuguese Timor from Japan. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 USMC Major Dick Johnson, flying a TBM-3 Avenger aircraft, landed at Matsuyama Airfield in Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan. He was the first US airman to arrive on Taiwan after the cease of hostilities. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Blenny arrived at San Diego, California, United States. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Macabi arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Pintado arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Springer arrived at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Sunfish arrived at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States. 
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06 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Copahee embarked on her first Operation Magic Carpet run. 
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06 Sep 1945 WW2 John McCain passed away. 
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06 Sep 1945 WW2 Carrier HMS Glory and her task force arrived off Rabaul, New Britain in the morning. At 0900 hours, sloop HMS Hart picked up Hitoshi Imamura and Jinichi Kusaka at Kabanga Bay, who would sign the surrender documents aboard HMS Glory at 1127 hours which surrendered 139,000 remaining personnel at Rabaul plus all forces in Australian territory in the South Pacific. 
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06 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Sterlet departed Midway. 
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06 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Ticonderoga arrived at Tokyo Bay, Japan. 
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06 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Missouri departed Tokyo Bay, Japan. 
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06 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Preston departed Okinawa, Japan. 
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06 Sep 1945 WW2 The Churon Temporary Prisoners of War Camp in northern Taiwan was closed. Former prisoners of the Oka Prisoners of War Camp in northern Taiwan and the Maruyama Temporary Prisoners of War Camp in Taihoku were evacuated by US and British ships via Keelung. 
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06 Sep 1945 WW2 The Taihoku Prisoners of War Camp No. 6 near Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan was closed. 
0
06 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Mero began her shakedown cruise on Lake Michigan in northern United States. 
0
06 Sep 1945 WW2 USS R-5 arrived at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States. 
0
07 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Sea Cat arrived at Guam, Mariana Islands. 
0
07 Sep 1945 WW2 The Allies held a victory parade was held in Berlin, Germany. 
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07 Sep 1945 WW2 Australia ratified the United Nations Charter. 
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07 Sep 1945 WW2 Allied prisoners of war at Rabaul, New Britain, technically freed on 16 Aug 1945 but still remained under Japanese care, were liberated by men under Royal Australian Navy Captain P. Brice Morris. 
0
07 Sep 1945 WW2 A Monetary Agreement was signed by the governments of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands in London, England, United Kingdom. 
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08 Sep 1945 WW2 Escorted by eight fighters, He Yingqin arrived in Nanjing, China by air at 0900 hours; later in the day he would meet with General Yasuji Okamura to work out the surrender ceremony details. 
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08 Sep 1945 WW2 General Douglas MacArthur arrived in Tokyo, Japan. 
0
08 Sep 1945 WW2 The Japanese Navy Northern Fleet surrendered to the Americans at Mutsu Bay, Japan. 
0
08 Sep 1945 WW2 Former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo failed in his suicide attempt at Sugamo Prison, Tokyo, Japan. 
0
08 Sep 1945 WW2 Elements of the USAAF 3rd Bomberment Group was assigned to Atsugi Airfield in Japan. 
0
08 Sep 1945 WW2 American troops landed at Inchon, Korea to prevent the Soviet Union from breaking the previous agreement for Soviet troops to only occupy northern Korea. 
0
08 Sep 1945 WW2 Royal New Zealand Air Force aircraft dropped leaflets on Nauru and Ocean Islands, urging Japanese soldiers to stop fighting and surrender. 
0
08 Sep 1945 WW2 Aleksandr Vasilevsky was made a Hero of the Soviet Union for the second time. 
0
09 Sep 1945 WW2 Operation Magic Carpet: Americans began the repatriation of servicemen from the Pacific theatre. Over the next six months, 369 warships would take 1.3 million men back to the United States. 
0
09 Sep 1945 WW2 Georgy Zhukov ordered his troops to stop committing crimes against the German civilian population; this order would be countermanded by Joseph Stalin on 20 Sep 1945 as the order was perceived to have failed to improve discipline. 
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09 Sep 1945 WW2 Japanese Army General Yasuji Okamura, Commander-in-Chief of the China Expeditionary Force, signed a surrender document at Nanjing, China on behalf of 1,000,000 Japanese troops and handed it to General He Yingqin, acting on behalf of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. 
0
09 Sep 1945 WW2 Americans Vice Admiral Thomas Kinkaid and Lieutenant General John Hodge accepted the surrender of all Japanese forces in Korea in the General Government Building in Seoul, Korea. 
0
09 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Brill arrived at Subic Bay, Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
0
09 Sep 1945 WW2 The Maruyama Temporary Prisoners of War Camp in Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan was closed. 
0
10 Sep 1945 WW2 In Oslo, Norway, Vidkun Quisling was sentenced to death. 
0
10 Sep 1945 WW2 Otto Skorzeny was transferred from Wiesbaden, Germany to Nuremberg, Germany; he traveled by aircraft with other top former German leaders. 
0
10 Sep 1945 WW2 Sergei Kartashov reported to Victor Abakumov, giving recommendation on how SMERSH could control the proceedings at the Nuremberg Trials in Germany. 
0
10 Sep 1945 WW2 The Allied re-occupation of Rabaul, New Britain officially began. 
0
10 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Manta arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her second war patrol. 
0
10 Sep 1945 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru departed Maizuru, Japan. 
0
11 Sep 1945 WW2 Operation Magic Carpet began to return US servicemen back to the United States. 
0
11 Sep 1945 WW2 The Allied Control Council for Austria met at the Hotel Imperial in Vienna, Austria. 
0
11 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Hackleback arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
0
12 Sep 1945 WW2 British rule was officially re-established in Singapore; British troops had already returned to the island on 5 Sep 1945. 
0
12 Sep 1945 WW2 Seishiro Itagaki surrendered Japanese forces in Southeast Asia to British Admiral Louis Mountbatten in Singapore. 
0
12 Sep 1945 WW2 Hajime Sugiyama committed suicide by shooting himself four times in the chest with a revolver in his office in Tokyo, Japan. His wife also killed herself. 
0
12 Sep 1945 WW2 The personnel of US Marine Corps squadron VMF-214 held a reunion at Naval Air Station Alameda in California, United States, where the recently liberated prisoner of war Gregory Boyington would see his former squadron mates for the first time since he became captured. The Chance Vought corporation paid for the dinner at the nearby St. Francis Hotel. 
0
13 Sep 1945 WW2 Japanese forces in Burma surrendered to the Allies. 
0
13 Sep 1945 WW2 Captain Hisayuki Soeda surrendered Nauru and Ocean Island surrendered to Australian troops. 
0
14 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Whale arrived at the Panama Canal Zone. 
0
14 Sep 1945 WW2 USS San Diego arrived at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States for a scheduled overhaul. 
0
14 Sep 1945 WW2 USS R-5 was decommissioned from service at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States. 
0
15 Sep 1945 WW2 General Hatazo Adachi surrendered the remnants of his 18th Army to the Australians near Wewak in New Guinea. Of his original force of 100,000 men, only 13,000 survived, sick and half starved after being abandoned without supplies for months. Adachi was so weak that he had to be carried to the surrender table. Later sentenced to death for war crimes against prisoners of war and natives, he cheated the hangman by committing suicide in 1947. 
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15 Sep 1945 WW2 The British published a captured Gestapo "death list" of 2,300 British and Allied figures should Germany had won the war. It included Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee, Neville Chamberlain, Lady Astor, Lord Baden-Powell, Noel Coward, Sigmund Freud, Dame Sybil Thorndike, Jacob Epstein, most newspaper proprietors and editors and the leaders of the French, Polish and Czech governments in exile. 
0
15 Sep 1945 WW2 Submarine I-369 was removed from the Japanese Navy List. 
0
15 Sep 1945 WW2 HMS Activity departed Singapore for Trincomalee, Ceylon with former prisoners of war on board. 
0
15 Sep 1945 WW2 Elements of the USAAF 49th Fighter Group was assigned to Atsugi Airfield in Japan. 
0
15 Sep 1945 WW2 American Manhattan Project physicist Harry Daghlian, Jr., after receiving a fatal dose of radiation during an accident on 21 Aug, died from radiation poisoning in Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States. 
0
15 Sep 1945 WW2 Joseph Rochefort requested sea duty, listing service aboard a cruiser as his preference. 
0
16 Sep 1945 WW2 The US coastal minesweepers YMS-98 and YMS-341 were sunk off Okinawa, Japan during a typhoon. 
0
16 Sep 1945 WW2 Four surviving Japanese aircraft (three A6M and one Ki-46) at Rabaul, New Britain were flown to the Australian airfield at Jacquinot Bay in southeastern New Britain. 
0
16 Sep 1945 WW2 In Shanghai, China, after being overworked, recovering from malaria (and at times overdosing on Atabrine), and taking too much Benzedrine and sleeping pills to help him work and rest, Milton Miles began showing signs of psychosis. On this date, he met with newly arrived Thomas Kinkaid in Shanghai, China; Kinkaid described Miles as suffering from "war shock". 
0
16 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Menhaden arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
0
16 Sep 1945 WW2 Japanese troops surrendered in Hong Kong. 
0
16 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Sterlet arrived at San Diego, California, United States. 
0
17 Sep 1945 WW2 Nationalist Chinese forces re-entered Beiping, China. 
0
17 Sep 1945 WW2 Joseph Kramer, Camp Commandant at Belsen, and 44 other SS officers were put on trial at Lüneburg, Germany for mass murders at Belsen and Auschwitz. Kramer and 10 others were sentenced to hang, while others received prison sentences. 
0
17 Sep 1945 WW2 Shigeru Yoshida was named the Foreign Minister of Japan. 
0
17 Sep 1945 WW2 US Army took control of the Japanese Army base in Busan (Pusan), Korea and soon renamed it Camp Hialeah. 
0
17 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Whale departed the Panama Canal Zone. 
0
18 Sep 1945 WW2 HMCS Micmac (R10) was commissioned into service with Lieutenant Commander R. L. Hennessy in command. 
0
18 Sep 1945 WW2 Douglas MacArthur established his headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. 
0
19 Sep 1945 WW2 Lord Haw Haw, William Joyce, was sentenced to death in Britain for treason. 
0
19 Sep 1945 WW2 The Congress Party of India began negotiating with Britain regarding independence. 
0
19 Sep 1945 WW2 The Chinese-American Composite Wing was disbanded after producing 5 American and 3 Chinese aces. 
0
19 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Pompon arrived at New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. 
0
19 Sep 1945 WW2 US Navy 7th Fleet sailed into Shanghai, China. 
0
20 Sep 1945 WW2 Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru demanded British troops to leave India. 
0
20 Sep 1945 WW2 USS R-1 was decommissioned from service at Key West, Florida, United States. 
0
20 Sep 1945 WW2 Captain Kunizo Kaneoka was named the commanding officer of light carrier Hosho. 
0
20 Sep 1945 WW2 Joseph Stalin expressed disapproval of Georgy Zhukov's 9 Sep 1945 order in which Zhukov ordered his troops to stop committing crimes against the German people; Stalin noted that such orders failed to improve discipline. 
0
20 Sep 1945 WW2 Naoshi Kanno was posthumously promoted to the rank of captain. 
0
20 Sep 1945 WW2 Lu Han arrived at Hanoi, French Indochina to begin surrender negotiations with Yuitsu Tsuchihashi. 
0
20 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Missouri arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
0
20 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Ticonderoga departed Tokyo, Japan with American servicemen aboard for San Francisco, California, United States (as part of Operation Magic Carpet). 
0
20 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Iowa departed Tokyo Bay, Japan with US servicemen and liberated prisoners of war on board. 
0
20 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Alabama departed Japan. 
0
20 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Sea Robin transited the Panama Canal. 
0
20 Sep 1945 WW2 Lieutenant Commander John B. Carroll was named the commanding officer of USS Preston. 
0
20 Sep 1945 WW2 Harry Truman ordered the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to disband in 10 days. 
0
21 Sep 1945 WW2 The last Beaufighter aircraft (SR919) to be built in the United Kingdom rolled off the production line, bringing total British production to 5,526 machines. 
0
21 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Pollack was decommissioned from service. 
0
21 Sep 1945 WW2 Henry Stimson stepped down from his position as the United States Secretary of War. 
0
21 Sep 1945 WW2 Aleksandr Vadis reported to Soviet SMERSH officer Isai Babich that, between 9 Aug and 18 Sep 1945, 2,249 were arrested in northeastern China (666 Japanese military intelligence officers and agents, 569 Japanese policemen, and 552 Soviet citizens). 
0
21 Sep 1945 WW2 Milton Miles arrived at his headquarters in Chongqing, China. 
0
21 Sep 1945 WW2 Soviet operative Andrei Onishchenko arrived in Turkey under the guise of a diplomatic courier; he was tasked with capturing Konstantin Volkov who was in the process of defecting to the United Kingdom. 
0
21 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Flying Fish arrived at New London, Connecticut, United States to serve as the flagship of Commander, Submarine Force, Atlantic Fleet. 
0
22 Sep 1945 WW2 Taken out of context, Patton's careless comparison of Nazi Party members in Germany to Democratic Party or Republican Party members in the United States stirred much controversy. 
0
22 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Carbonero arrived at Seattle, Washington, United States. 
0
22 Sep 1945 WW2 Edward Brooks' son, Major Edward Brooks, Jr., was killed in Belgium in a night flight training landing accident. 
0
22 Sep 1945 WW2 The overworked Milton Miles was placed under house arrest at his headquarters in Chongqing, China by the orders of his physician. 
0
22 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Hawkbill departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for San Francisco, California, United States. 
0
22 Sep 1945 WW2 The US 5th Marine Division landed at Nagasaki on Kyushu Island, Japan, for occupation duties. 
0
22 Sep 1945 WW2 US 5th Marine Division landed at Sasebo, Japan and took control of the Sasebo Naval District, including its shipyards. 
0
22 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Becuna arrived at San Diego, California, United States and was assigned to the Submarine Force of the US Navy Pacific Fleet. 
0
23 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Whale arrived at the Tompkinsville area of Staten Island, New York, United States. 
0
24 Sep 1945 WW2 Salmon was decommissioned from service. 
0
24 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Sea Robin arrived at Galveston, Texas, United States. 
0
24 Sep 1945 WW2 Soviet operative Andrei Onishchenko and his team captured Konstantin Volkov, who was in the process of defecting to the United Kingdom, and departed Turkey for Russia. 
0
24 Sep 1945 WW2 German test pilot Karl Bauer arrived at Wright Field in Ohio, United States. 
0
24 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Baya arrived in San Francisco, California, United States. 
0
24 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Preston arrived at San Pedro, California, United States. 
0
25 Sep 1945 WW2 The Nazi Party was officially declared illegal in Germany. 
0
25 Sep 1945 WW2 The last of the Soviet Army forces departed Norway. 
0
25 Sep 1945 WW2 Viktor Abakumov ordered the curtailment of looting by Soviet troops in Germany. 
0
25 Sep 1945 WW2 Milton Miles was awarded the Order of the White Cloud and Golden Banner of the Republic of China while he was at his headquarters in Chongqing, China. 
0
25 Sep 1945 WW2 Joseph Rochefort's request for transfer to sea duty was accepted; he was ordered to be detached from the US Navy Office of Naval Operations on 1 Oct 1945. 
0
25 Sep 1945 WW2 William Donovan presided over the closing ceremonies of the Office of Strategic Services. 
0
26 Sep 1945 WW2 Viet Minh troops in Vietnam rioted against the French, killing US Army Lieutenant Colonel A. Peter Dewey by accident. 
0
26 Sep 1945 WW2 US President Truman announced that the remaining assets of the German Navy was to be divided among United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union. 
0
26 Sep 1945 WW2 Brigadier General John Magruder and Assistant Secretary of War John McCloy, defying US President Harry Truman's orders to disband the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), kept a number of OSS operatives active in a new organization called the Strategic Services Unit. 
0
27 Sep 1945 WW2 Emperor Showa visited General Douglas MacArthur. 
0
27 Sep 1945 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Mille, Marshall Islands, embarked Japanese troops, and departed later in the same day. 
0
27 Sep 1945 WW2 2,000 Portuguese military personnel arrived at in Portuguese Timor. 
0
28 Sep 1945 WW2 Rioting took place in Indonesia against the Dutch. 
0
28 Sep 1945 WW2 US Coast Guard Lieutenant (jg) John Murchison relieved G. E. Oliver as the commanding officer of US Army ship FS-390. 
0
28 Sep 1945 WW2 Lu Han accepted the surrender of Japanese 38th Army at Hanoi, French Indochina. 
0
28 Sep 1945 WW2 George Patton was summoned to Frankfurt, Germany by Dwight Eisenhower, who scolded him for repeatedly stirring up controversies and transferred him to the US 15th Army in the rear, which was tasked with compiling a history of the European War. 
0
28 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Marcus Island arrived at Okinawa, Japan. 
0
29 Sep 1945 WW2 Aleksandr Vasilevsky was awarded the Order of Lenin for the fourth time. 
0
29 Sep 1945 WW2 Du Yuming established a field headquarters north of Kunming, Yunnan Province, China for the upcoming campaign against General Long Yun. 
0
29 Sep 1945 WW2 Milton Miles departed Chongqing, China. Irwin Beyerly would take over command of US Navy's Sino-American Special Technical Cooperative Organization (SACO) organization from Beyerly's headquarters in Shanghai, China. 
0
29 Sep 1945 WW2 Lavrentiy Beria ordered that the response to inquiries regarding those arrested and executed by the Special Board (OSO) of the Soviet NKVD during WW2 would be that they were sent to imprison for 10-year terms and they were not allowed to send nor receive letters. 
0
29 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Hoe arrived at New York, New York, United States. 
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30 Sep 1945 WW2 US Marines landed in Tanggu, Tianjin, China and began to move toward Beiping. 
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30 Sep 1945 WW2 The Chenggong Airfield in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China ceased operations. 
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30 Sep 1945 WW2 Chengdu Airfield in Sichuan Province, China was closed. 
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30 Sep 1945 WW2 Du Yuming gave the order to launch a surprise attack against General Long Yun in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, forcing Long to flee to the high ground at Wuhua Mountain, where he would soon surrender. 
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30 Sep 1945 WW2 Milton Miles was officially relieved of his command of the US Navy Naval Group China, and his rank was reverted to the peace time rank of captain. 
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30 Sep 1945 WW2 I-401's crew was disbanded by the Americans. All officers and men went back into the civilian population, including the few who had committed war crimes. 
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30 Sep 1945 WW2 A captured Me 262 jet fighter flew over Freeman Field in Indiana, United States with test pilot Harold Watson in the cockpit. The flight was observed by German test pilot Karl Bauer. 
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01 Oct 1945 WW2 The airline company TWA became the first commercial organization to operate a Constellation aircraft. 
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01 Oct 1945 WW2 Western Allies recognized Karl Renner's socialist government in Austria. 
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01 Oct 1945 WW2 Joseph Rochefort was officially detached from the US Navy Office of Naval Operations in Washington DC, United States. 
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01 Oct 1945 WW2 Pope Pius XII met with Thomas Dodd between 1050 hours and 1130 hours; part of that time was spent discussion the trials of German leaders. 
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02 Oct 1945 WW2 Dwight Eisenhower informed George Patton that Eisenhower was to announce Patton's transfer from US 3rd Army to US 15th Army on the following day. 
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02 Oct 1945 WW2 Roberts Dunstan was discharged from the Royal Australian Air Force. 
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03 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Intensity was decommissioned from service. 
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04 Oct 1945 WW2 Du Yuming and Long Yun arrived at Chongqing, China. 
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04 Oct 1945 WW2 He Yingqin arrived at Hanoi, French Indochina to meet with Lu Han. 
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05 Oct 1945 WW2 Yukikaze was decommissioned from service. 
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05 Oct 1945 WW2 Lieutenant General Kuzma Derevyanko reported to Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Lavrentiy Beria, and Georgy Malenkov on his observations of destroyed cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. 
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05 Oct 1945 WW2 Thomas Dodd interrogated Wilhelm Keitel for several hours in the afternoon in Nürnberg, Germany, and the session was observed by Soviet representatives. During this session, Keitel showed scorn for the Soviets, admitted issuing the order to execute captured Soviet commissars, and discussed the torture of Soviet prisoners of war. 
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05 Oct 1945 WW2 Light carrier Hosho was removed from the Japanese Navy List. On the same day, she departed Kure, Japan for the Marshall Islands in an effort to repatriot Japanese military servicemen. 
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05 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Ticonderoga arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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05 Oct 1945 WW2 A parade was held in Washington DC, United States in honor of Chester Nimitz. 
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05 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Ray arrived at New London, Connecticut, United States. 
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06 Oct 1945 WW2 Communist forces in China attacked US Marines. 
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07 Oct 1945 WW2 George Patton handed control of the US 3rd Army to Lucian Truscott. 
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07 Oct 1945 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Uraga, Japan and disembarked troops. 
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08 Oct 1945 WW2 Rudolph Heß was transported from Britain to Nürnberg, Germany for trial. 
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08 Oct 1945 WW2 Japanese General Yamashita was arraigned in war crimes court in the Philippine Islands. 
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08 Oct 1945 WW2 António de Oliveira Salazar of Portugal allowed opposition political parties for the first time. 
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09 Oct 1945 WW2 Communist forces in China occupied northern Shandong Province. 
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09 Oct 1945 WW2 S-30 was decommissioned from service. 
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09 Oct 1945 WW2 Drayton was decommissioned from service. 
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09 Oct 1945 WW2 The submarine chaser USS SC.636 foundered during Typhoon Louise off the coast of Okinawa, Japan. 
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09 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Bluefish arrived at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States. 
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10 Oct 1945 WW2 A Soviet code clerk defected to the US and revealed the extent of the Soviet spy network in the US. 
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10 Oct 1945 WW2 The Japanese Navy 5th and 10th Air Fleets were officially disbanded. 
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10 Oct 1945 WW2 Dong Zhao was awarded the Order of Loyalty and Diligence. 
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10 Oct 1945 WW2 George Brett stepped down as the chief of the US Caribbean Defense Command and the US Army's Panama Canal Department. 
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10 Oct 1945 WW2 US 68th Composite Wing departed Baishiyi Airfield near Chongqing, China. 
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10 Oct 1945 WW2 Hiroshi Nemoto surrendered the Japanese North China Area Army at a ceremony at the Forbidden City in Beiping, China. 
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10 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Enterprise arrived at the Panama Canal Zone. 
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11 Oct 1945 WW2 US Marines landed on the southern coast of Shandong Province, China to slow the Chinese Communist advance. 
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11 Oct 1945 WW2 Shyler Cammann and four other US Navy personnel became the first to depart Sino-American Special Technical Cooperative Organization (SACO) Camp Four in China. They would return to the US via Chongqing and then Shanghai. 
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11 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Enterprise departed the Panama Canal Zone. 
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11 Oct 1945 WW2 Submarine Pollack was struck from the US Naval Register. 
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11 Oct 1945 WW2 Submarine R-5 was struck from the US Naval Register. 
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12 Oct 1945 WW2 A typhoon in Okinawa, Japan killed a number of US troops. 
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12 Oct 1945 WW2 Mason was decommissioned from service. 
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12 Oct 1945 WW2 Bogdan Kobulov, Vasilii Chernyshev, and Victor Abakumov signed a joint letter requesting Hans Fritzsche and Erich Raeder to be transferred from Moscow, Russia to Berlin, Germany. 
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12 Oct 1945 WW2 Dwight Eisenhower visited George Patton at the headquarters of the US 15th Army. Patton noted that by this time Eisenhower was much more a politician than a general. 
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12 Oct 1945 WW2 Anton Dostler was sentenced to death in Rome, Italy. 
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13 Oct 1945 WW2 The last of 11,461 Vickers Wellington aircraft to be built rolled off the production line. 
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13 Oct 1945 WW2 US Marines stepped in to break up the violence that had broken out between Japanese nationals and an angry Chinese mob in the city of Tianjin, China. 
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13 Oct 1945 WW2 The Soviet Directorate of the NKVD Troops for Guarding the Rear of the Red Army was disbanded. 
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13 Oct 1945 WW2 A show open to the public was held at Wright Field, Ohio, United States, featuring M3 262, P-80, He 162, Me 163, Ju 290, Ba 349, Ju 388L, A6M, and Ohka aircraft. Among the guests was German test pilot Karl Bauer. 
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14 Oct 1945 WW2 The Indonesian People's Army declared war on the Netherlands. 
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14 Oct 1945 WW2 Du Yuming received orders to travel to Chongqing, China to meet with Chiang Kaishek. 
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15 Oct 1945 WW2 Pierre Laval was executed for treason. 
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15 Oct 1945 WW2 US Army ship FS-390 was decommissioned from service. 
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15 Oct 1945 WW2 Du Yuming arrived at Chongqing, China, where Chiang told him that Du was to become the scapegoat for the removal of General Long Yun; Chiang would later award him with higher positions for taking on this responsibility. 
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15 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Puffer arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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15 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Iowa arrived at Seattle, Washington, United States. 
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15 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Wisconsin arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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15 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Alabama arrived at San Francisco, California, United States at about 1200 hours. 
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16 Oct 1945 WW2 Japanese physicist Yoshio Nishina sought permission from the American occupation administration to use his two cyclotrons for biological and medical research. The request was granted, but orders from United States Secretary of War Robert Patterson dated 10 Nov would have all cyclotrons in Japan destroyed on 24 Nov. 
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16 Oct 1945 WW2 Du Yuming was relieved as the commanding officer of Kunming, Yunnan Province, China. 
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16 Oct 1945 WW2 Light carrier Hosho arrived at Wotje, Marshall Islands and embarked 700 Japanese military servicemen. She departed for Eniwetok, Marshall Islands later on the same day. 
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16 Oct 1945 WW2 Robert Oppenheimer resigned as the director of the Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States facility of the Manhattan Project. 
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17 Oct 1945 WW2 A coup d'etat put Colonel Juan Peron at the helm of Argentina. 
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17 Oct 1945 WW2 Cachalot was decommissioned from service. 
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17 Oct 1945 WW2 Darlowo, Poland (formerly Rügenwalde, Germany) began deporting its German citizens. 
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17 Oct 1945 WW2 Miklós Horthy met with Thomas Dodd in Nürnberg, Germany. 
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17 Oct 1945 WW2 Norris Bradbury succeeded Robert Oppenheimer as the director of the Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States facility of the Manhattan Project. 
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17 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Enterprise entered the Hudson River in New York, New York, United States in preparation of the Navy Day holiday celebrations. 
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18 Oct 1945 WW2 The war crimes trials in Nürnberg, Germany began. Erich Raeder and Hans Fritzsche arrived in Nürnberg under Soviet guard on the same day. 
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18 Oct 1945 WW2 Du Yuming arrived in Chongqing, China. 
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18 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Makin Island departed Japan for San Francisco, California, United States. 
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18 Oct 1945 WW2 US Navy squadron VF-66, flying FR Fireball piston-jet mix-powered fighters, was decommissioned before ever seeing combat. 
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19 Oct 1945 WW2 Communist forces in China attacked US Marine trains and aircraft. 
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19 Oct 1945 WW2 USS S-31 was decommissioned from service. 
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19 Oct 1945 WW2 S-32 was decommissioned from service. 
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19 Oct 1945 WW2 Maury was decommissioned from service. 
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19 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Parche arrived at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States. 
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20 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Gar arrived at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States. 
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20 Oct 1945 WW2 HMS Activity was decommissioned from service upon arriving at the Clyde, Scotland, United Kingdom with former prisoners of war from Singapore. 
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20 Oct 1945 WW2 The Soviets sentenced Captain Eberhard von Scheller to death; during the war Scheller had worked for the Soviet SMERSH counterintelligence agency but he was caught attempting to smuggle sensitive information to the Germans. Scheller would be executed about two weeks later. 
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20 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Marlin departed New London, Connecticut, United States and arrived at Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. 
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21 Oct 1945 WW2 British engineers destroyed the U-Boat pens in Hamburg, Germany. 
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23 Oct 1945 WW2 Farragut was decommissioned from service. 
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23 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Missouri arrived at New York, New York, United States. 
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23 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Parche departed Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States. 
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23 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Whale arrived at Boston, Massachusetts, United States. 
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24 Oct 1945 WW2 Norwegian collaborator Vidkun Quisling was executed by firing squad. 
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24 Oct 1945 WW2 The United Nations was officially inaugurated. 
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24 Oct 1945 WW2 Lawrence was decommissioned from service. 
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24 Oct 1945 WW2 Cuttlefish was decommissioned from service. 
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24 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Marcus Island arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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25 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Marlin departed Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. 
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26 Oct 1945 WW2 Du Yuming was named the commanding officer of the Northeastern Provinces Security Command. 
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26 Oct 1945 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru departed Uraga, Japan. 
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27 Oct 1945 WW2 Indonesian separatists rioted against Dutch and British security forces. 
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27 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Rock participated in Navy Day celebrations in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. 
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27 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Missouri hosted US President Harry Truman for the annual Navy Day ceremonies at New York, New York, United States. 
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27 Oct 1945 WW2 On this Navy Day holiday in the United States, Harry Truman reviewed the fleet aboard USS Missouri on the Hudson River and then gave a speech in Central Park, New York, New York, United States. 
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27 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Alabama hosted 9,000 civilian visitors at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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27 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Wasp arrived at Boston, Massachusetts, United States. 
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29 Oct 1945 WW2 S-18 was decommissioned from service. 
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29 Oct 1945 WW2 S-40 was decommissioned from service. 
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29 Oct 1945 WW2 Ellet was decommissioned from service. 
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29 Oct 1945 WW2 Trial against Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita began in Manila, Philippine Islands. 
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29 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Alabama departed San Francisco, California, United States and arrived at San Pedro, which was also in California. 
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30 Oct 1945 WW2 Liberty Ship Albert M. Boe was delivered to the US Navy; she was to be the last Liberty Ship to be built. 
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30 Oct 1945 WW2 S-45 was decommissioned from service. 
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30 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Whale arrived at New London, Connecticut, United States. 
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30 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Permit completed her duty as a training submarine at Submarine Base, New London, Connecticut, United States. 
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30 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Wasp arrived at New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, United States, where she would receive minor conversion work to accommodate 400 officer and 5,000 men. 
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31 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Columbia set sail for the United States. 
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31 Oct 1945 WW2 The British Tiger Force, a planned redeployment of heavy bombers from the European theatre to the Far East, was officially abandoned. 
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31 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Tirante arrived at Staten Island, New York, United States. 
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31 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Marlin arrived at Boston, Massachusetts, United States. 
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31 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Bluefish arrived at New London, Connecticut, United States. 
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31 Oct 1945 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Wake Island. 
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01 Nov 1945 WW2 British Intelligence reported that Adolf Hitler most likely committed suicide on 30 Apr 1945 in Berlin, Germany after marrying Eva Braun. 
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01 Nov 1945 WW2 Submarine S-31 was struck from the US Naval Vessels Register. 
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01 Nov 1945 WW2 Hamilton was decommissioned from service. 
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01 Nov 1945 WW2 This date was the scheduled launch day for Operation Olympic, the invasion of Kyushu, Japan, which never took place. 
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01 Nov 1945 WW2 USS San Diego entered drydock No. 2 at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States. 
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01 Nov 1945 WW2 US Navy approved the swept-wing design element for the new XP-86 jet fighter. 
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01 Nov 1945 WW2 USS Marblehead was decommissioned from service. 
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01 Nov 1945 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru departed Wake Island after embarking about 1,000 Japanese troops. 
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02 Nov 1945 WW2 Hulbert was decommissioned from service. 
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02 Nov 1945 WW2 S-23 was decommissioned from service. 
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02 Nov 1945 WW2 S-46 was decommissioned from service. 
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02 Nov 1945 WW2 Lavrentiy Beria ordered Vsevolod Merkukov, Viktor Abakukov, and Sergei Kruglov to investigate a list of 105 important German prisoners of war for the possibility of placing them on public trial; the three would find that 85 of them could be tried. 
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02 Nov 1945 WW2 USS Mero completed her shakedown cruise and was placed in a floating drydock for transit down the Mississippi River. 
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02 Nov 1945 WW2 USS Shamrock Bay arrived at San Diego, California, United States, bringing back US servicemen from Pacific bases. 
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03 Nov 1945 WW2 Light carrier Hosho arrived at Uraga, Japan and disembarked 1,011 Japanese military servicemen returned from the Marshall Islands. 
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03 Nov 1945 WW2 USS Cod arrived at New London, Connecticut, United States. 
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04 Nov 1945 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Kusaie, Caroline Islands and embarked Japanese personnel. 
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05 Nov 1945 WW2 Lord Gort stepped down as the High Commissioner of the British Mandate of Palestine. 
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05 Nov 1945 WW2 The first carrier landing by a jet aircraft took place on the flight deck of USS Wake Island, off San Diego, California, United States. 
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05 Nov 1945 WW2 Du Yuming requested Chiang Kaishek for permission to use force to take Huludao or Yingkou, Liaoning Province, China from communist forces. He would receive the permission and would launch the offensive within days. 
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05 Nov 1945 WW2 USS Saint Paul departed Tokyo, Japan. 
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05 Nov 1945 WW2 Vsevolod Merkukov, Viktor Abakukov, and Sergei Kruglov concluded that of a list of 105 important German prisoners of war given to them three days prior, 85 of them could be placed on public trial for war crimes. 
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05 Nov 1945 WW2 USS Cero arrived at New London, Connecticut, United States. 
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06 Nov 1945 WW2 The Soviet Union announced that it would soon have its own atomic bomb. 
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06 Nov 1945 WW2 The American FR-1 Fireball jet fighter became the first jet aircraft to land on a carrier. 
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06 Nov 1945 WW2 Ivan Bagramyan was awarded the Order of Lenin for the second time. 
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06 Nov 1945 WW2 A FR Fireball piston-jet mix-powered fighter became the first aircraft to land on an aircraft carrier (USS Wake Island) while using jet power. 
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06 Nov 1945 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru departed Kusaie, Caroline Islands. 
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07 Nov 1945 WW2 USS Sable was decommissioned from service. 
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07 Nov 1945 WW2 USS Wolverine was decommissioned from service. 
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08 Nov 1945 WW2 Chinese Nationalist troops launched an offensive in Liaoning Province, China against communist positions. 
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09 Nov 1945 WW2 USS Marlin was decommissioned from service at the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, United States. 
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10 Nov 1945 WW2 United States Secretary of War Robert Patterson ordered all cyclotrons in Japan destroyed. 
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10 Nov 1945 WW2 Submarine R-1 was struck from the US Naval Register. 
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10 Nov 1945 WW2 USS Saint Paul arrived at Shanghai, China. 
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11 Nov 1945 WW2 Tito was elected the first president of the soon-to-be-established Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. 
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11 Nov 1945 WW2 USS Miami arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands to survey bombing damage to the Japanese base. 
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11 Nov 1945 WW2 Joseph Rochefort was ordered to travel from California, United States to Washington DC, United States as a witness for a Pearl Harbor raid investigation. 
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12 Nov 1945 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Uraga, Japan and disembarked troops. 
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13 Nov 1945 WW2 General Charles de Gaulle became the first post-war head of French government. 
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13 Nov 1945 WW2 Norman Jackson was presented with a Victoria Cross medal by King George VI of the United Kingdom for his brave attempt to put out the fire on his Lancaster bomber's starboard wing during the night of 26-27 Apr 1944. 
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13 Nov 1945 WW2 U-977 arrived at Boston, Massachusetts, United States by tow. 
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13 Nov 1945 WW2 USS Sterlet departed San Diego, California, United States. 
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14 Nov 1945 WW2 Chinese Nationalist troops attacked toward the Shanhaiguan Pass of the Great Wall in northeastern China. 
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14 Nov 1945 WW2 A YP-80A jet aircraft crashed during landing during a test flight in Britain. 
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15 Nov 1945 WW2 US, Britain, and Canada called for a UN Atomic Energy Commission. 
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15 Nov 1945 WW2 Seal was decommissioned from service. 
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15 Nov 1945 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru underwent repairs at the Uraga Zosen docks near Tokyo Bay, Japan. 
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15 Nov 1945 WW2 USS San Diego exited drydock No. 2 at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States. 
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15 Nov 1945 WW2 USS Permit was decommissioned from service at Boston Naval Shipyard. 
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15 Nov 1945 WW2 USS Wasp departed New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, United States. 
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16 Nov 1945 WW2 88 German rocket scientists were brought into the United States. 
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16 Nov 1945 WW2 Albert Wedemeyer ordered that public saluting for US servicemen in Shanghai, China was no longer required unless on official business. 
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17 Nov 1945 WW2 USS Boarfish departed Apra Harbor, Guam. 
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17 Nov 1945 WW2 Stepan Petrichenko (who had participated in the 1921 Kronstadt mutiny but had since became loyal to the Soviet Union once again, acting as a Soviet spy in Finland) was found guilty of counter-revolutionary activities and of being a spy for Finland. The NKVD sentenced him to 10 years in labor camps. 
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18 Nov 1945 WW2 21 Nazi leaders were indicted at the first open session of the International Military War Crimes Tribunal in Germany. 
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18 Nov 1945 WW2 António de Oliveira Salazar retained his seat as the Prime Minister of Portugal in an re-election. 
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19 Nov 1945 WW2 The US Congress voiced its opinion to withdraw US Marines from China. 
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19 Nov 1945 WW2 Commander Keiji Koeu was relieved as the commanding officer of destroyer Yukikaze. 
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20 Nov 1945 WW2 Max Merten, already in captivity as a prisoner of war, was arrested for war crimes. 
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20 Nov 1945 WW2 Trial of the Major War Criminals of the Nuremberg Trials began. Soviet SMERSH officers Leonid Kozlovtsev, Krasilnikov, and Khelipsky arrived in Nürnberg, Germany, presumably to help oversee the Soviet prosecution team. 
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20 Nov 1945 WW2 Settsu was struck from the Japanese Navy list for the second time. 
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21 Nov 1945 WW2 All accused at the Trial of the Major War Criminals of the Nuremberg Trials pleaded not guilty. 
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21 Nov 1945 WW2 The Auto Workers Union closed 100 General Motors factories in the United States. 
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21 Nov 1945 WW2 Otto Skorzeny was transferred to the witness wing at Nuremberg, Germany. 
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21 Nov 1945 WW2 Lieutenant General Alexander Patch died of pneumonia at Brooke General Hospital, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas, United States where he had been hospitalized with lung problems. 
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22 Nov 1945 WW2 USS San Diego completed her scheduled overhaul and departed Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States. 
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23 Nov 1945 WW2 The United States government ended rationing for butter. 
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23 Nov 1945 WW2 Brigadier General Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Schuyler was named the head of the US section of the Allied Control Commission in Bulgaria. 
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23 Nov 1945 WW2 Arthur Coningham was made Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold and was awarded Croix de Guerre of Belgium with Palms. 
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24 Nov 1945 WW2 Per orders of United States Secretary of War Robert Patterson, all cyclotrons in Japan were destroyed. 
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24 Nov 1945 WW2 USS Menhaden became Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz's flagship at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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25 Nov 1945 WW2 The US Congress again voiced its opinion to withdraw US Marines from China. 
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25 Nov 1945 WW2 Soviet SMERSH operatives arrested Captain Yutaka Takeoka who had previously killed Russian defector Genrikh Lyushkov in Dalian, Liaoning, China (Lyushkov had refused to commit suicide in the face of defeat). 
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25 Nov 1945 WW2 USS Miami received orders to return to the United States. 
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26 Nov 1945 WW2 Douglas MacArthur confirmed that Emperor Showa of Japan would not be forced to abdicate the throne. 
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26 Nov 1945 WW2 Joseph McNarney was made the commanding general of US Forces in the European Theater, succeeding Dwight Eisenhower. 
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26 Nov 1945 WW2 Chinese Nationalist troops captured the Shanhai Pass of the Great Wall in northeastern China. 
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26 Nov 1945 WW2 The Soviet Governmental Commission on Nuremberg Trials ordered the Soviet prosecution team in Nürnberg, Germany not to discuss issues such as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the annexation of the Baltic States, Polish borders, etc. 
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27 Nov 1945 WW2 The United States dispatched George Marshall to China in an attempt to halt the civil war between Nationalist and Communist forces. 
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27 Nov 1945 WW2 French fighter Ace, Marcel Albert, received the Hero of the Soviet Union decoration. 
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27 Nov 1945 WW2 Severin Dobrovolsky, a former White Russian military officer who later became loyal to the Soviet Union and acted as a Soviet spy in Finland, was sentenced to death by the Soviet Union for counter-revolutionary activities. 
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28 Nov 1945 WW2 Submarine Marlin was struck from the US Naval Registrar. 
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28 Nov 1945 WW2 Submarine Pollack was restored onto the US Naval Register. 
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28 Nov 1945 WW2 The US 4th Marine Division was deactivated at Camp Pendleton, California, United States. 
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28 Nov 1945 WW2 Sable was struck from the US Naval Vessel Register. 
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28 Nov 1945 WW2 Wolverine was struck from the US Naval Vessel Register. 
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28 Nov 1945 WW2 Marblehead was struck from the US Navy Register. 
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29 Nov 1945 WW2 The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia was declared with Marshal Tito as its first president. 
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29 Nov 1945 WW2 Films of concentration camp atrocities were shown at the Nuremberg Trials in Germany. 
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29 Nov 1945 WW2 Fox was decommissioned from service. 
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29 Nov 1945 WW2 Soviet Politburo replaced MGB 1st Deputy Bogdan Kobulov with Sergei Ogoltsov, the former NKVD/NKGB chief of Kuibyshev, Russia. 
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29 Nov 1945 WW2 USS Mero arrived at New Orleans, Louisiana, United States via a floating drydock down the Mississippi River. 
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29 Nov 1945 WW2 Joseph Redman gave Joseph Rochefort a good fitness report, recommending Rochefort for promotion. 
0
30 Nov 1945 WW2 The US 101st Airborne Division was deactivated. 
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30 Nov 1945 WW2 At the Nuremberg Trials, Rudolph Heß announced that he had been faking insanity and amnesia all along. 
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30 Nov 1945 WW2 Junyo was decommissioned from service. 
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30 Nov 1945 WW2 Kitakami was decommissioned from service. 
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30 Nov 1945 WW2 McCall was decommissioned from service. 
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30 Nov 1945 WW2 The Japanese Navy 12th Air Fleet was officially disbanded. 
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30 Nov 1945 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho was removed from the Japanese Navy List. 
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30 Nov 1945 WW2 Irako was struck from the Japanese Navy List. 
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30 Nov 1945 WW2 Yoshijiro Umezu was placed on the reserve list. 
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30 Nov 1945 WW2 Prince Hiroyasu's position with the Japanese Navy was abolished. 
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30 Nov 1945 WW2 The US Naval Dry Docks, Roosevelt Base near Los Angeles, California, United States was renamed Terminal Island Naval Shipyard. 
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01 Dec 1945 WW2 During this month, former German Navy cruiser Prinz Eugen was renamed USS IX 300 of the US Navy. 
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01 Dec 1945 WW2 Anton Dostler passed away. 
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01 Dec 1945 WW2 The last Japanese resistance unit in Saipan, Mariana Islands surrendered. 
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01 Dec 1945 WW2 Douglas Bader was promoted to the permanent rank of wing commander. 
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01 Dec 1945 WW2 Lu Han was made the Chairman of Yunnan Province, China. 
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01 Dec 1945 WW2 The US military publication Shanghai Stars and Stripes sponsored a US Army-US Navy American football game in Shanghai, China. The passenger of the pre-game rickshaw race was crowned Miss Rickshaw 1945 and Queen of the Army-Navy Game. 1,500,000 people, Americans and Chinese, turned out to join in on the overall festivities while 20,000 attended the football game. Navy defeated Army in the game, 12 to 0. 
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04 Dec 1945 WW2 By a vote of 65 to 7, the United States Senate approved US participation in the United Nations, which was established on 24 Oct 1945. 
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05 Dec 1945 WW2 Light carrier Hosho entered the drydocks at Hidachi Innoshima shipyard in Japan to receive repairs and to remove the forward portions of the flight deck to improve visibility from the bridge. 
0
05 Dec 1945 WW2 USS Columbia arrived at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States for scheduled overhaul. 
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06 Dec 1945 WW2 Leutze was decommissioned from service. 
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06 Dec 1945 WW2 Guavina was decommissioned from service. 
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06 Dec 1945 WW2 USS Guitarro was decommissioned from service at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States. 
0
06 Dec 1945 WW2 USS Mero departed New Orleans, Louisiana, United States for the Panama Canal Zone. 
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07 Dec 1945 WW2 Japanese General Yamashita was found guilty of war crimes. 
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08 Dec 1945 WW2 USS Tautog was decommissioned from service. 
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08 Dec 1945 WW2 The prototype Bell Model 47 (NC1H) helicopter made its maiden flight. In 1946 the type would receive the first commercial helicopter certification. 
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08 Dec 1945 WW2 Captain Harold Baker was named the commanding officer of USS Saint Paul while at Shanghai, China. 
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08 Dec 1945 WW2 An assassination attempt on Mikhail Likhachev failed in Nürnberg, Germany. His driver Buben died when the Horch 951 limousine was shot up while Likhachev was not in the vehicle. 
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09 Dec 1945 WW2 George Patton sustained spinal cord and neck injuries in an automobile accident near Neckarstadt, Germany at 1145 hours. He became paralyzed from the neck down. 
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10 Dec 1945 WW2 USS Miami arrived at Long Beach, California, United States. 
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11 Dec 1945 WW2 USS Gar was decommissioned from service. 
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11 Dec 1945 WW2 Rall was decommissioned from service. 
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11 Dec 1945 WW2 William Halsey was promoted to the rank of fleet admiral. 
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11 Dec 1945 WW2 Beatrice Patton, wife of paralyzed George Patton, arrived at Heidelberg, Germany. 
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11 Dec 1945 WW2 I-400 departed Sasebo, Japan. 
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11 Dec 1945 WW2 I-401 departed Sasebo, Japan. 
0
11 Dec 1945 WW2 I-14 departed Sasebo, Japan. 
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12 Dec 1945 WW2 Concord was decommissioned from service. 
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12 Dec 1945 WW2 USS Macabi entered Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States for inactivation overhaul. 
0
13 Dec 1945 WW2 USS Tunny was decommissioned from service and was placed in the Mare Island Group of the 19th Fleet in reserve. 
0
14 Dec 1945 WW2 SS personnel convicted of atrocities at Belsen and other concentration camps were executed by hanging. 
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14 Dec 1945 WW2 Doherty was decommissioned from service. 
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14 Dec 1945 WW2 Cummings was decommissioned from service. 
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14 Dec 1945 WW2 George Patton asked his wife Beatrice to prevent Walter Bedell Smith from visiting him at the hospital in Heidelberg, Germany. 
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14 Dec 1945 WW2 Sergei Khudyakov was arrested. 
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14 Dec 1945 WW2 William Halsey was honored with a ticker tape parade in New York, New York, United States. 
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15 Dec 1945 WW2 The United States ended the rationing of tires. 
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15 Dec 1945 WW2 Japanese women were allowed to vote. 
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16 Dec 1945 WW2 Fumimaro Konoe passed away. 
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17 Dec 1945 WW2 Memphis was decommissioned from service. 
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17 Dec 1945 WW2 Joseph Stalin returned to Moscow, Russia from an extended vacation in the Caucasus region of southern Russia; it was his first vacation in nine years. Late in the night, he met with Viktor Abakumov, Nikolai Bulganin, Aleksei Antonov, and Sergei Shtemenko regarding the future reorganization of Soviet counterintelligence arms. 
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19 Dec 1945 WW2 McFarland was decommissioned from service. 
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19 Dec 1945 WW2 Engstrom was decommissioned from service. 
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19 Dec 1945 WW2 Free French fighter ace Jean Demozay returning from a trip to London, England, United Kingdom was killed when his aircraft crashed near Buc, France. 
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19 Dec 1945 WW2 I-400 arrived at Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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19 Dec 1945 WW2 I-401 arrived at Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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19 Dec 1945 WW2 I-14 arrived at Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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19 Dec 1945 WW2 Shigeru Yoshida was made a member of the House of Peers of the Japanese Diet. 
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20 Dec 1945 WW2 Picking was decommissioned from service. 
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21 Dec 1945 WW2 Austin was decommissioned from service. 
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21 Dec 1945 WW2 Canfield was decommissioned from service. 
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21 Dec 1945 WW2 USS Saint Paul and Chinese landing craft LST144 collided at Shanghai, China, causing slight damage to the cruiser's bow. 
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21 Dec 1945 WW2 George Patton passed away from pulmonary embolism at the US Army hospital in Heidelberg, Germany as the result of an automobile accident. 
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21 Dec 1945 WW2 USS Copahee arrived at Alameda, California, United States. 
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22 Dec 1945 WW2 US and England announced formal recognition of the Tito government in Yugoslavia. 
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22 Dec 1945 WW2 Doneff was decommissioned from service. 
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26 Dec 1945 WW2 Chen Shaokuan was relieved of his duty as the supreme command of the Chinese Navy. 
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26 Dec 1945 WW2 USS Sunfish was decommissioned from service at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States. 
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27 Dec 1945 WW2 Representatives from 28 nations signed the agreement to create the World Bank. 
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27 Dec 1945 WW2 Terrorists struck against British military bases in Palestine. 
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27 Dec 1945 WW2 Vendetta was decommissioned from service. 
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28 Dec 1945 WW2 Dwight Eisenhower ordered the Imperial Regalia of the Holy Roman Empire to be transferred to Vienna, Austria despite protest by the representatives of Nürnberg, Germany. 
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28 Dec 1945 WW2 The command of the United States Coast Guard was transferred under the US Treasury Department. 
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29 Dec 1945 WW2 Gilmore was decommissioned from service. 
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29 Dec 1945 WW2 Sergei Kruglov was named to replace Lavrentiy Beria as the head of the Soviet Internal Affairs Ministry (MVD). 
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29 Dec 1945 WW2 Joseph Stalin dismissed Aviation Industry Commissar Aleksei Shakhurin due to the incriminating information divulged by Marshal Sergei Khudyako under torture. 
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29 Dec 1945 WW2 Soviet Politburo approved Lavrentiy Beria's request to be dismissed as the head of NKVD; secretly, it was done so that he could focus on his new role in leading atomic weapons research. 
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30 Dec 1945 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru completed its repairs at the Uraga Zosen docks near Tokyo Bay, Japan. 
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30 Dec 1945 WW2 Friedrich Gustav Bernhardt was found guilty and was executed in Moscow, Russia. 
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31 Dec 1945 WW2 US Marine Corps end-of-year report noted that there were about 46,000 Marines stationed in Northern China at this time. 
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31 Dec 1945 WW2 Joseph Stalin ordered Aleksandr Nobikov to put his son Vasilii Stalin on the promotion list for general rank even though Nobikov thought the younger Stalin was not yet experienced enough for such high rank. 
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