Air Operations, Aleutians

9 28th Composite Bomb Group B-24s, 6 B-25s, 17 343rd Fighter Group P-38s, and 30 P-40s mount 10 seperate attacks against Kiska.

Air Operations, CBI

• 51st Fighter Group P-40s attack the airfields at Manywet and Myitkyina with 1,000-pound bombs.

• 23rd Fighter Group P-40s strafe barracks and warehouses at Lungling, motor vehicles and cattle near Lungling, and pack horses near Tengchung.

Air Operations, Europe

• 146 Wellingtons, 135 Halifaxes, 98 Lancasters and 83 Stirlings are sent to bomb Stuttgart.
• The Pathfinders claim to have marked the center of this difficult target accurately, but the main bombing area is to the northeast along the line of approach of the bombing force. This is an example of 'creepback', a feature of large raids which occurs when Main Force crews fail to press through to the center of the marking area but bomb the earliest markers visible. Bomber Command is never to overcome the 'creepback' tendency and as a result, much of the bombing fall away from the center of marked target areas.
• 8 Stirlings, 8 Wellingtons, 4 Halifaxes and 3 Lancasters are lost.
• There is a night raid on Chelmsford hitting a ball-bearing factory. The prison there is set on fire.
• The Russians bomb Königsberg and Danzig.

Air Operations, New Guinea

• 43rd Heavy Bomb Group B-17s, 90th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s, and V Bomber Command B-25s attack many individual Japanese vessels off New Guinea with negligible results.
• An estimated 144 Japanese bombers and fighters based at Rabaul attack the Allied base at Milne Bay. Of 40 P-38s and P-40s intercepting the attack, 49th Fighter Group P-38s down a G4M 'Betty' bomber and an A6M Zero at 1230 hours, and 5 other Japanese aircraft are downed by antiaircraft fire.
• 3 US fighters are lost and an ammunition ship is sunk.

Captured and destroyed German tanks southwest of Stalingrad on April 14, 1943.

German Tanks Near Stalingrad

Bodies of dead German soldiers lie sprawled across a roadside southwest of Stalingrad, on April 14, 1943. Corpses left unburied were not an immediate Russian concern while winter was still on -- but once temperatures rose beginning in May, a major burial operation had to be launched.

German Bodies Southwest of Stalingrad

New Guinea

A Japanese raid on shipping in Milne Bay marks the end of the recent flurry of air activity. 2 transports are sunk. The Japanese air forces have lost heavily especially pilots, largely those from aircraft carriers, who have already become scarce and irreplaceable. There have been no great tactical or strategic results. Their results are a small bag of ships, plus the destruction of 25 American aircraft, As for slowing down the American progress, if anything Yamamoto has achieved just the opposite, inducing the Americans to accelerate their preparations for the offensive.

North Africa

The Axis forces are now established in their final defensive positions of the campaign. The occupy the ring of hills around Bizerta and Tunis from about Cape Serrat to Enfidaville. The 8th Army units coming up from the south begin to put pressure on Djebel Garci and Takrouna.

The IX Corps moves to an assembly area southwest of Teboursouk.

In the British 1st Army's V Corps area, the US 9th Div assumes command of the 46th Div sector. The 4th Div, in its first action, has been exerting pressure against the enemy north of Hunt's Gap in conjunction with the 78th Div's attack and has reached the hills just southwest of Sidi Nsir. The 78th Div takes the commanding ridges, Djebel el Ang and Djebel Tanngouche, some 8 miles north of Medjez. The French XIX Corps has driven the enemy from Eastern Dorsal as far as 10 miles north of Pichon.

North Sea

The British armed patrol trawler Adonis (644t) is sunk off Lowestoft by German motor torpedo boats of the 4th Motor Torpedo Boat Flotilla with the loss of 1 of her crew.

F4U-1 Corsairs of Marine Fighting Squadron (VMF) 124 pictured on Guadalcanal on April 14, 1943.

Marine Corsairs on Guadalcanal