Air Operations, Bismarcks
A VC-33 (USS Coral Sea) plane downs a G4M 'Betty' bomber at sea near Emirau Island at 1329 hours.
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]Air Operations, Carolines
- 41st Medium Bomb Group B-25s mount two attacks against Ponape Island.
- During the night, 27 307th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s, guided by 4 868th Heavy Bomb Squadron SB-24s, attack Dublon Island in the Truk Atoll. 1 B-24 is downed by an Japanese Navy night fighter.
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]Air Operations, Central Pacific
VII Bomber Command B-24s attack Wake Island.
[ | ]Air Operations, CBI
BURMA- 6 490th Medium Bomb Squadron B-25s attack rail facilities at Shwebo. 2 B-25s and more than 80 10th Air Force fighter-bombers attack numerous targets in the Mogaung Valley. 6 10th Air Force A-31s attack targets around Tamanthi.
- 14th Air Force P-40s attack a Japanese Army barracks near Nanchang.
- During the night, only 1 of 6 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s dispatched is able to get through bad weather to attack a Canton-area airfield.
| ]Air Operations, East Indies
V Bomber Command B-25s attack Koepang, Timor.
[ | ]Air Operations, Europe
Spitfire fighter-bombers of the RAF destroy many planes on the Banja Luka airfield in Yugoslavia.
RAF BOMBER COMMANDEvening Ops:
- 35 Mosquitos are sent to Hamburg.
- 1 Mosquito is lost.
- 14 Mosquitos attack 7 targets in the Ruhr and the Rhineland and there are 3 RCM sorties.
- There are no losses.
| ]Air Operations, New Guinea
- Before dawn, V Bomber Command B-24s and Fleet Air Wing 17 PB4Ys and PBYs attack the Wakde Islands. Later, V Fighter Command fighters and fighter-bombers attack coastal targets at Aitape, Madang, and Wewak.
- Japanese forces at Hollandia report that only 25 aircraft remain serviceable following several days of attacks by 5th Air Force bombers.
| ]Burma-India
In the northeast of Burma the 5307th unit makes slight progress in the Nhpum Ga area. On the Indian front, the Japanese 58th Regt succeeds in driving through Naga Village at the northern end of Kohima and up the Imphal-Kohima road to take key positions around the center of the settlement, but a dogged defense by the Royal West Kents stops the attack in its tracks. The 7th Indian Div is air-lifted from the Arakan to the Kohima-Dimapur area to reinforce the British IV Corps.
Operation U-GO completes its final objectives as the Japanese 33rd and 15th Divs cut off Imphal. The Allied defensive circle around Imphal is roughly 20 miles across, and contains the following IV Corps units: 17th Indian Light Div; 50th Parachute Bde; 5th Indian Div; 23rd Indian Div; 254th Tank Bde. Despite having been thoroughly routed, the Allied forces have made a professional retreat and conserved much of their strength and organization. Both Imphal and Kohima garrisons are now entirely dependent on air supply to maintain the defense, and their aim is to hank on until Britain's XXXIII Corps reaches them and breaks the siege. The Japanese besiege 3,500 British-Indian troops for 13 days. There is savage hand-to-hand fighting.
[ | ]Eastern Front
There is heavy fighting north of Razdelnaya as a small German pocket is wiped out. The 1st Panzer Army reaches German lines after a 10-day fighting retreat.
SOUTHERN SECTORA small German force is isolated at Razdelnaya and brought under sustained attack.
[ | ]New Guinea
As a result of the tremendous air offensive of the US 5th Air Force, the air defenses of the Japanese base at Hollandia can now rely on 25 planes.
[ | ]Occupied France
The Resistance stops production at the Timken ball-bearing factory near Paris.
[ | ]United States, Home Front
Rose O'Neill, artist and creator of the 'Kewpie Doll', dies at the age of 68.
[ | ]Images from April 6, 1944
SBDs of VC-40 Sortie from Piva Uncle Airfield for a Strike on Rabaul, 6 April 1944 |
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SS-Standartenführer Johannes Mühlenkamp |
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Panthers of SS-Panzer Regiment 5 ready for action |
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Garrison Hill at Kohima, India |
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B-17 Hit by Anti-aircraft fire over Marshaling Yards in Yugoslavia, April 1944 |
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