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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (14th February 1945)
On the Russian Front...
Soviet 1st Byelorussian Front is attacking around the Oder River
Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front encircles Breslau and closes up to the Neisse River

In the Arctic...
US vessel Horace Grey is sunk by U-711
Norwegian vessel Norfjell is written off by U-968 

On the Western Front...
Canadian 1st Army attacks around Moyland, Asperberg, Kessel, and Hommersum
At Ostend, 12 RN MTBs are destroyed in an accidental fire and 14 damaged 

North Sea...
U-989 is sunk by RN frigates Bayntun, Braithwaite, Loch Eck, and Loch Dunvegan

Chile...
President Rios announces a state of war with Japan

In the Pacific...

On Luzon, US 6th Army continues fighting against stubborn Japanese opposition in Manila

USN motor minesweeper YMS-48 is sunk by a Japanese shore battery  north of Corregidor Island  and destroyers Fletcher and Hopewell are damaged

Japanese vessel No. 1 Yamanami Maru is sunk by a mine off the Ryukyu Islands
IJN Coast Defense Vessel No. 9 is sunk by USN submarine Gato in the Yellow Sea
IJN auxiliary sub chasers Cha-4 and Cha-114 are sunk by USN submarine Hawkbill off the East Indies 

Tokyo...
In audience with Emperor Hirohito, Prince Konoe predicts an attack by the Soviet Union and the inevitable defeat of Japan, and recommends the Emperor must seek peace. 

Burma...
Japanese forces attack the British 14th Army bridgehead across the Irrawaddy River opposite Myinmu west of Mandalay
British 14th Army begins crossing the Irrawaddy River around Nyaungu, south of Mandalay, to advance on Meiktila and isolate Japanese 15th Army and 33rd Army to the north 

Today's Air Raids...
Dresden, Maggdeburg, Chemnitz, Wesel, Dulmen and targets of opportunity in Germany by US 8th Air Force
Vienna and targets of opportunity in Austria by US 15th Air Force
Chemnitz, Rositz, Mainz, Dessau, Duisburg and Berlin, Germany by RAF Bomber Command
Antwerp, Belgium by five V-2 rockets
London by sixteen V-2 rockets
North Sea minelaying by RAF Bomber Command
Brux, Pilsen, Prague and targets of opportunity in Czechoslovakia by US 8th Air Force
Maribor, Celje, and Zagreb, Yugoslavia by US 15th Air Force
Northern Italy on bridges and transportation routes by US 12th Air Force
Corregidor Island, Negros Island, Mindanao Island, and Cebu Island by US FEAF
Kagi Airfield and targets of opportunity on Formosa by US FEAF
China on airfields, rail lines, a fuel dump, and other targets around Kaifend, Shihkiachwant, Puchou, Sinsiang, Sinyang, Huschang, Lohochai, and Hsiangcheng by US 14th Air Force
Lashio, Burma by US 10th Air Force
Pakokku Airfield, Burma by Japanese Aircraft

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Brief Missus Time
Me Time
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