Air Operations, Aleutians
Air Operations, Bismarcks43rd Heavy Bomb Group B-17s and 90th Heavy Bomb B-24s attack Cape Gloucester and barges along the coast. [ | ]Air Operations, EuropeBOMBER COMMANDDaylight Ops:
Air Operations, New Guinea43rd Heavy Bomb Group B-17s and 90th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s attack Madang and several other coastal towns. [ | ]AleutiansOn Attu American troops coming up from the south manage to reach the top of Fish Hook Ridge after hand-to-hand fighting in a complex system of trenches and tunnels dug by the Japanese. The units from the northern sector also make some progress from the other side of the ridge. [ | ]Allied PlanningThe Trident Conference, which began in Washington on May 12, comes to an end. It has been decided that the invasion of northwest Europe, Operation OVERLORD, will start early in May 1944. The invasion will be preceded by a gigantic air offensive. In Italy, after the landing in Sicily, Operation HUSKY, whatever actions are necessary will be taken to eliminate the country from the war. Systematic bombing of the Ploesti oilfields in Rumania, vital to the Germans, will be undertaken from bases in the Mediterranean. It was also agreed to increase aid to China and to step up the tempo of the war against Japan by island-hopping through the central Pacific. The strategy to be adopted in the Pacific was also approved in outline. [ | ]
Battle of the AtlanticUS Naval land-based aircraft (VP-84) sink the German submarine U-467 in the Atlantic Ocean area. [ | ]North AfricaTUNISIASousse is chosen as the site for the headquarters for the invasion of Pantelleria. The tactical method chosen is to be saturation bombing.
United States, Home FrontThe president of Ford Motor Co, Edsel Ford, dies at age 49. [ | ] |
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