04-1944

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, April 30, 1944: Secret War Greece: General Kreipe (commander of ‘Fortress Crete’) kidnapped by Partisans (leaded by British Commandos) in Crete and taken by British […]

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, April 29, 1944: Sea War Pacific: TF 58 attacks Truk: 93 Japanese planes destroyed (26 US planes shot down). Occupied Territories France: Resistance cripples newly

WW2 War Diary for Friday, April 28, 1944: Air War Germany: RAF bombs Friedrichshafen. Northern Europe: Avro Lancaster bombers raid Kjeller aircraft factory, Oslo (night April 28-29). Occupied Territories France:

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, April 27, 1944: Sea War Channel: 3 American LSTs, carrying out invasion exercise, are torpedoed by E-boats in Lyme Bay; 638 killed (night April 27-28).

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, April 26, 1944: Air War Germany: RAF night raid on Schweinfurt. Pacific New Guinea: Australians capture Alexishafen, west of Madang.

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, April 25, 1944: Sea War Atlantic: Cruiser Black Prince and 3 Canadian destroyers engage torpedo boats; T-29 sunk (136 killed), T-24 and T-27 damaged (night

WW2 War Diary for Monday, April 24, 1944: Air War Germany: 8th US Air Force raids Friedrichshafen factories and airfields near Munich (55 planes lost, including 14 which land –

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, April 23, 1944: Eastern Front Northern Sector: Germans counter-attack southwest of Narva. Pacific New Guinea: Hollandia fighting begins. Occupied Territories Greece: Communist-inspired mutiny aboard 5

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, April 22, 1944: Sea War Pacific: AMERICANS LAND AT HOLLANDIA and Aitape, on north coast of New Guinea; 52,000 troops in 113 ships, escorted by

WW2 War Diary for Friday, April 21, 1944: Air War Western Europe: 4,500 t bombs dropped on 4 rail junctions; Cologne, La Chappelle (Paris), Lens and Ottignies (Brussels) by RAF

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, April 20, 1944: Sea War Mediterranean: Germans use Neger (‘Negro’) human torpedoes against shipping off Anzio; 37 launched from beaches (24 lost) without result (night

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, April 19, 1944: Sea War Indian Ocean: British Eastern Fleet planes attack Sabang harbour and airfields (Sumatra). Black Sea: Red fleet bombards Sebastopol. Air War

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, April 18, 1944: Eastern Front Southern Sector: 4th UF besieges Sebastopol. Panzers and Hungarian troops, with air support, begin series of counter-attacks between rivers Dniester

WW2 War Diary for Monday, April 17, 1944: Air War Eastern Europe: B-17 Fortress and B-24 Liberator bombers attack Belgrade and Sofia. Sea War Channel and North Sea: 7,000 mines

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, April 16, 1944: Occupied Territories Hungary: Eichmann begins systematic concentration of 800,000 Hungarian Jews in ghettos prior to their deportation to Auschwitz. Concentration phase completed

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, April 15, 1944: Air War Southeast Europe: 15th US Air Force sends 500 sorties to Bucharest and Ploesti.

WW2 War Diary for Friday, April 14, 1944: Eastern Front Southern Sector: 1st and 2nd UFs capture Tarnopol (southeast of Lvov) and reach the Carpathians – driving massive wedge between

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, April 13, 1944 Air War Western Europe: US and British TAFs carry out heavy attacks on German coastal batteries in Normandy. Germany: 2,000 USAAF bombers

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, April 12, 1944: Eastern Front Southern Sector: 3rd Ukrainian Front captures Tirasapol, 97 km northwest of Odessa. Occupied Territories Italy: King Victor Emmanuel announces his

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, April 11, 1944: Home Fronts Southern Sector: Russians advance on Simferopol (Crimea). Air War Western Europe: 6 RAF de Havilland Mosquito bombers destroy Central Population