In India… The transport ship Fort Stikine, carrying explosives and cotton bales, catches fire and explodes in the Bombay Docks. A total of 27 ships are wrecked in the harbor, about 740 people are killed or missing and 476 servicemen and about 1000 civilians are injured. (In the following six months, some 10,000 troops and civilians remove one million tons of rubble from the area.)

On the Eastern Front… Both the Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front and 2nd Ukrainian Front reach the Carpathian foothills – creating a gap between the defenses of German Army Group North Ukraine and Army Group South Ukraine.

In the Soviet Union… General Nikolai F. Vatutin, the former commander of the Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front, dies of wounds received in a partisan ambush, by Ukrainian nationalists, on February 29, 1944.

In Burma… British forces break through the Japanese road block at Zubza and the British 161st Brigade at Jotsoma is relieved by attacks of other elements of the 2nd Indian Division.

In Algiers… Free French General Giraud is placed on the retired list.