The Battle of Manilla ended in a U.S. victory.
Hitler visited General Theodor Busse’s 9th Army Headquarters, close to the river Oder. It was Hitler's last visit to the front.
Red Army tank commander Aleksandra Grigoryevna Samusenko was killed. There are two variants of her death, both involving her being run over by a tracked vehicle. She may have been accidentally run over by a Red Army tank.
She was a real exception to the rule about women in combat generally. Unfortunately, not a great deal is known about her. She appears as the "daughter of the regiment" of a tank unit as early as 1934, when she was 12 years gold, and it appears that by that time her mother was dead. Her ethnic origin is debated, with Belorussian, Ukrainian and Tartar all claimed (fwiw, she looks pretty Ukrainian). Effectively, she was in the Red Army from about 12 years of age on.
Finland retroactively declared war on Germany, dating the start of the war to September 15, 1944.
The Luftwaffe commenced Operation Gisela, a nighttime intruder operation aimed at RAF night operations. The aircraft lost by the Luftwaffe in the operation was nearly the same as that lost by the RAF, 22 to 24.
The Polish post Home Army and Polish civilians killed up to 500 Ukrainians in hte Pawlokoma Massacre in retaliation for Ukrainian Insurgent Army attacks on civilians, although there is evidence that the NKVD, and not the UIA, had carried out the attacks the Poles were seeking revenge for.
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