The Soviets, reacting to their recent defeat, began the Third Narva Offensive.
They also, on the same day, took Zhmerynka.
The Germans began a two-day massacre of prisoners, mostly being Soviet citizens and anti-fascists in the Romanian city of Rîbnița.
Miklós Horthy went to Schloss Klessheim, south of Salzburg, at Hitler's invitation. It was not a pleasant meeting. Horthy was forced to accept a new government and allow German troops onto Hungarian soil, which amounted to an effective German invasion.
German allies were abandoning Germany as quickly as possible, remaining in its orbit, at this point, by force.
The German 1st Fallschirm-Panzer Division Hermann Göring bombed the villages of Monchio, Susano and Costrignano, around Montefiorino, and slaughtered their entire population.
Aimo Allan Koivunen became the first documented case of a soldier overdosing on methamphetamine during combat. The Finnish solider retreated singly after his ski patrol was attacked and surrounded by Soviet troops. He was carrying the unit's entire supply of Pervitin, a methamphetamine used to keep troops awake on duty, and entered a state of delirium and became unconscious. He came into Finnish lines days later with a still retained massively elevated heart beat and weighing under 100 lobs. He'd skied nearly 250 miles during the ordeal.\
He died in 1989 at the age of 71.
World War One French general, and opponent of Vichy, Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau, died at age 92.
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