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US Army Rangers, Alamo Scouts and Filipino guerrillas raid and liberate 512 POWs from the Japanese camp near Cabanatuan.

The Soviet 1st Ukrainian front captures Gleiwitz.

The evacuation of troops and civilians from Courland, East Prussia, and the Polish Corridor. Hundreds of merchant vessels and Germany's largest remaining naval vessels would transport hundreds of thousands of evacuees and soldiers across the Baltic.

Soviet troops entered the ruins of the city of Warsaw, and liberated Warsaw's suburbs from German occupation.

The Allies had taken control of all strategically and economically important locations of Luzon by March, although pockets of Japanese resistance held out in the mountains until the unconditional surrender of Japan.