Air Operations, Aleutians15 28th Composite Bomb Group B-24s, 16 B-25s, 10 343rd Fighter Group P-38s, and 32 P-40s mount 10 attacks against Kiska. | ]Air Operations, CBIBURMA
Air Operations, Central Pacific22 307th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s staging through Funafuti Airdrome attack 3 phosphate plants and photograph Nauru Island at noon. 5 B-24s are damaged by Japanese Navy fighters and 1 airman is killed. [ | ]Air Operations, EuropeBOMBER COMMANDDaylight Ops:
The Russians bomb Tilsit in East Prussia. [ | ]Air Operations, New Guinea
Air Operations, PacificUS aircraft attack the Japanese base on Nauru. [ | ]Aleutian IslandsRear-Adm Thomas C. Kinkaid, commanding Task Force 16, issues operation orders for the landing on Attu Island. [ | ]Diplomatic RelationsRoosevelt meets with Mexican President Manuel Avila Camacho in Monterrey, Mexico, as the 2 'good neighbors' discuss cooperative wartime efforts and make plans for postwar reconstruction. [ | ]Japan, PoliticsThe Japanese Cabinet is reorganized, with Mamora Shigemitsu becoming Foreign Minister replacing Masayuki Tani. [ | ]North AfricaTUNISIAOver the next 3 days Montgomery mounts a series of attacks on the Axis positions near Enfidaville north of Sousse, but these are very strong and the attacks fail with heavy casualties. The Takrouna strongpoint, however, is taken by the British troops.
US II Corps forces smash through the mountains north of Medjez el Bab, opening the way for the tanks to advance into the Tine River valley. In the British 1st Army area, as the V and IX Corps are preparing for the assault on Tunis, a German tank-infantry force counterattacks sharply, during the night, in the region between Medjez el Bab and Goubellat. In the British 8th Army area, the X Corps, continuing the attack on the Enfidaville line, takes Enfidaville and pushes northward on the right but is checked on the left at Djebel Garci by stubborn opposition. [ | ]Occupied PolandThe massacre of the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto begins. Under orders from Himmler at least 56,000 will be killed by May 16.
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