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- US Third Army crossed the Meuse River while the British forces reached Ghent, Belgium. ww2dbase [Liberation of Belgium | TH]
- US 83rd Infantry Division became part of the VIII Corps of the Ninth Army of the US 12th Army Group. ww2dbase [CPC]
- USS Bailey departed the Solomon Islands as part of a convoy bound for the landings on the southern Palau islands. ww2dbase [Bailey | Palau Islands and Ulithi Islands Campaigns | DS]
- Ján Golian was given the rank of general and was given responsibility to direct the Slovak National Uprising. ww2dbase [Slovak National Uprising | CPC]
- The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against the chemical plant at Ludwigshafen, Germany. ww2dbase [RAF Thurleigh | Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Ludwigshafen | DS]
- Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of Night Air Group 104 on board. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]
- Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Kure, Japan. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Kure, Hiroshima | CPC]
- Landing ship No. 110 was completed and was transferred to the Japanese Army. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]
- The keel of landing ship No. 145 was laid down by Kawanami Kogyo. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]
- UIT-24 departed Kobe, Japan. ww2dbase [Comandante Cappellini | Kobe, Hyogo | CPC]
- USS Whale departed Tanapag Harbor, Saipan, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Whale | Tanapag, Saipan | CPC]
- USS Kete arrived at the Panama Canal Zone. ww2dbase [Kete | CPC]
- Jewish ghettos at Łódź, Poland were evacuated by German authorities. ww2dbase [Łódź | CPC]
- Soviet forces repulsed a German-Hungarian counter attack near Klausenberg, Romania. ww2dbase [Jassy-Kishinev Offensive and Romania's Surrender | Klausenberg | TH]
- Allied convoy RA-59A arrived at Loch Ewe, Scotland, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Loch Ewe, Scotland | CPC]
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