Chocolate Drop Hill on Okinawa was taken by U.S. troops. The final fighting was in interconnected tunnels.
The 1st Marine Division captured Wana Ridge on Okinawa. Marines also conducted mopping up operations on Horseshoe and Half Moon using flamethrowers, resulting in a desperate Japanese counterattack that ends with 200 Japanese troops killed.
The US took Malaybalay on Mindanao.
The Japanese Army evacuated Hochih, China as the Imperial Japanese General Staff decided to deploy forces closer to the Japanese Home Islands.
The Japanese had secured enormous territorial gains in China with a just completed offensive, and yet there was a massive amount of China left, the same problem the Japanese had been faced with since 1932 when they first began to fight in the country. In many ways, for the Japanese, World War Two was principally about China, and now it was faced with the reality that being tied down there was contributing enormously to its losing in the war.
The Soviets appointed Soviet authorities appointed Dr. Arthur Werner as the Oberbergermeister of the Berlin. The appointment would be shortly confirmed by the Western Allies.
He was not a Communist and had not been a Nazi. An engineer, he had lost his teaching position in 1942.
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