1944
German Field Marshal Rommel is severely wounded when his staff car was strafed by a Royal Canadian Air Force Spitfire piloted by Charley Fox; he was hospitalized with major head injuries. Rommel was returning to his headquarters from an inspection tour. He survived the attack, but committed suicide 3 months later after being implicated in the plot to assassinate Hitler.
[Rommel's staff car strafed]
1945
The first Anglo-American carrier air strike on the Tokyo area is conducted by the forces of the British Pacific Fleet , designated Task Force 37, and the US 3rd Fleet. During the night, the HMS King George V and 5 US battleships bombard Hitachi on Honshu. The Allied battleships fire some 2000 tons of shells on Hitachi in fifty minutes.
[Carrier group off the coast of Japan]