Air Operations, Aleutians
Air Operations, EuropeBOMBER COMMAND
Air Operations, Gilberts3 VII Bomber Command B-24s based at Canton Island attack a barracks in Abemama Atoll. [ | ]Air Operations, MediterraneanThe Allied air offensive continues on Sicily, Sardinia and Pantellaria. [ | ]Air Operations, New Guinea3 V Bomber Command bombers hit both airfield and town of Madang. [ | ]AleutiansOn Attu the Americans improve their positions both on the southern slope and on the north side of Fish Hook Ridge. Japanese submarines begin the evacuation of the Kiska Island garrison. [ | ]Canada, Home FrontMeat rationing is introduced throughout the country. [ | ]Eastern FrontSOUTHERN SECTORThe V Corps is involved in further heavy fighting. [ | ]
MediterraneanThe first Allied convoy since 1941 to sail without a loss through the Mediterranean from Gibraltar arrives in Alexandria having left on the 17th. [ | ]Occupied PolandOver 1,000 gypsies are gassed in Auschwitz. [ | ]Occupied Yugoslavia(when?) The fifth Axis offensive against Tito's Partisans begins. 120,000 Germans, Italians, Bulgarians and Chetniks (turncoat Partisans) trap about 16,000 Partisans in Montenegro, but they fight their way out in June. About 8,000 are killed. The Germans deport all civilians from this area. [ | ]United States, Home FrontPres Edwin Barclay of Liberia arrives in Washington. [ | ] |
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