The USS Bunker Hill was badly damaged by kamikaze attacks, something that had been an unrelenting feature of the Japanese defense of Okinawa as part of Operation Ten-Go.
The Battle of West Henan–North Hubei ended in tactical stalemate but a Japanese operational victory.
Soldiers of the US Army who had commenced combat with Operation Torch and who had gone on to serve in Europe were exempted from further combat deployment. Fighting was still raging all over the Pacific, with troops meeting stiff resistance in New Guinea, the Philippines, and Okinawa as examples.
The Australians took Wewak, New Guinea.
The Red Army continued to encounter German units that had not yet surrendered. In Yugoslavia German Group Ostmark refused to surrender and kept fighting Yugoslav forces.
German forces began to surrender in the Aegean.
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