Air Operations, Bonin and Volcano Islands

• 10 VII Bomber Command B-24s attack Ototo Jima.
• 9 B-24s attack Iwo Jima.
• During the night, 8 VII Bomber Command B-24s conduct snooper raids against Iwo Jima.

Air Operations, CBI

• 25 10th Air Force B-25s and 86 10th Air Force P-47s and 459th Fighter Squadron P-38s attack Japanese Army troops, anti-aircraft batteries, and supplies in the Lashio area.
• 4 P-38s attack a bridge at Mong Tong.
• 14th Air Force fighter-bombers attack Mekong River traffic between Wan Mai-Lo and Nguen.

• 20 14th Air Force P-51s attack the airfield at.
• Numerous fighter-bombers attack rail and traffic and many other targets in the Chingmen, Hsiangcheng, Ichang, Suchow, Tsingpu, Wuhu, and Yungning areas.
• A 311th Fighter Group P-51 downs a Ki-43 'Oscar' fighter near Paoting at 1250 hours.

Air Operations, East Indies

XIII Bomber Command B-24s and XIII Fighter Command P-38s attack the Manggar and Sepinggang airfields on Borneo.

Air Operations, Europe

• 35 aircraft of No. 5 Group (Nos. 9 and 617 Squadrons) are sent to attack viaducts at Bielefeld and Altenbeken, but are recalled because of bad weather.

• Of 1,383 8th Air Force heavy bombers dispatched to attack several oil-industry targets, 1,310 are forced by bad weather to divert against several secondary targets and nearly twenty targets of opportunity, mostly city and town areas.
• 5 heavy bombers and 4 of 829 VIII Fighter Command escorts are lost.

• 261 9th Air Division bombers attack a defended village, an ammo dump, a motor-vehicle park, a communications center, and targets of opportunity.

• 12th Air Force B-25s attack rail lines, a bridge, and marshalling yards.
• XXII TAC P-47s attack numerous targets of opportunity.
• During the night, XXII TAC A-20s attack lights and signs of movement throughout northern Italy.

Air Operations, Formosa

During the night, 63rd Heavy Bomb Squadron SB-24s attack several airfields.

Air Operations, Philippines

• FEAF B-24s attack artillery positions on Corregidor.
• 19 494th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s based on Angaur attack Corregidor.
• FEAF B-24s and V Bomber Command B-25s attack coastal areas and shipping.
• B-25s and V Fighter Command P-38s attack Echague and a Japanese Army camp.
• A-20s attack the Fabrica airfield on Negros, Caballo Island, and support US 6th Army ground forces in the Nichols Field area of Luzon.
• USMC SBDs attack Japanese Army rocket positions endangering Manila’s main water-filtration plant.

Eastern Front

Fighting rages in East Prussia and in the cities of Poznan and Budapest, still tenaciously defended by the Germans. Southeast of Breslau the Soviet forces begin to push out of their bridgehead over the Oder. Hundreds of thousands of panic-stricken German civilians flee westward, many into the 'safe' city of Dresden.

A counterattack by the 8th SS Cavalry Division toward Sashegy Hill founders after heavy losses. On the hill itself, the defending force is compelled to surrender, having run out of food and ammunition.

Italy

Units of IV Corps from 5th Army take Gallicano in a brief offensive designed to improve the Allied positions on either side of the Serchio Valley.

Pacific

• The US submarine Pampanito (SS-383) attacks a Japanese convoy about 200 miles northeast of Singapore and sinks the merchant tanker Engen Maru (6968t).
• The US submarine Spadefish (SS-411) sinks the Japanese merchant passenger/cargo ship Shohei Maru (1092t) off Port Arthur, Korea.
• The Japanese tanker Obi Maru is sunk by mine in Johore Strait. The mine was laid by a B-29 of the 20th Bomber Command.

Philippines

In the XIV Corps area, the 37th Division and the 1st Cavalry Division have cleared most of Manila north of the Pasig River. The 40th Division is ordered to speed action to clear the right rear of the corps. The 160th Infantry, with tank and air support, secures a foothold on McSevney Point, the western nose of Storm King Mountain.

In the I Corps area, the Japanese continue a stubborn defense of Munoz, the target a very heavy artillery concentration, and Lupao. Enemy withdrawal routes from Munoz are cut. The 32nd Division suspends its attack up the Villa Verde Trail while consolidating current positions about 1,500 yards north of Santa Maria.

In the XI Corps area, the 149th Infantry of the 38th Division starts westward toward Zigzag Pass, where the enemy positions are worked over thoroughly by aircraft, now based on the San Marcelino airstrip, and by artillery. The 152nd Infantry continues eastward and penetrates the enemy line late in the day. The 151st Infantry relieves the 34th Infantry.

The 511th Parachute Infantry of the 11th Airborne Division gains about 500 yards toward Manila. The 188th Infantry moves forward in preparation for the attack on Nichols Field.

Western Front

While the offensive to break through the defenses of the Siegfried Line continue on the American 1st and 3rd Army fronts, to the south of the line the French 1st Army starts the final stage of the operations to take out the Colmar pocket. In the US XXI Corps sector the 3rd Div takes the old fortress fo Neuf-Brisach; some units of the French 2nd Arm Div advance south between the Rhine-Rhone Canal and the Rhine River toward the French I Corps. The 75th Div reaches the canal south of Neuf-Brisach and the US 12th Arm Div, with the French 5th Arm Div, eliminated the pockets cut off in the Vosges. In the French I Corps sector infantry units of the 2nd Moroccan Div cross the Ill River in the Meyenheim-Reguisheim area and advance east of the Rhine Canal to take Hirtzfelden; the 9th Colonial Div completes the capture of Ensisheim and sends some units in the direction of Baldersheim, north of Mulhouse, and the 4th Moroccan Motorized Div blocks the escape routes from the Vosges, where any kind of organized resistance has come to an end.[WE]

Images from February 6, 1945

Pushing a Truck

6th Gurkha Rifles at Singu

Treating the Casualties

Supply Drop on Bataan

Soviets Entering Eylau

Bringing Up Supplies

B-24 in a Crash Landing

Brig (Brzeg) After Russian Assault