Air Operations, Carolines
- 41st Medium Bomb Group B-25s attack Ponape Island.
- During the night, 23 307th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s and a squadron of VII Bomber Command B-24s attack the Truk Atoll.
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]Air Operations, CBI
BURMA- 12 490th Medium Bomb Squadron B-25s and 11 10th Air Force P-51s support Allied forces at Mawlu. 24 10th Air Force A-31s attack communications targets and artillery batteries at Buthidaung. Several B-25s and more than 90 fighters and fighter-bombers attack Kamaing and targets throughout the Mogaung Valley.
- 90 10th Air Force A-31s attack numerous targets in the battle area on both sides of the Burma–India border.
- Japanese aircraft attack Namyung as 28 14th Air Force fighters fail to intercept.
| ]Air Operations, Europe
The US Tactical Air Force begins to attack the German heavy guns in Normandy.
RAF BOMBER COMMANDEvening Ops:
- 29 Mosquitos are sent to Berlin but results of the bombing are not possible because of the glare of massed searchlights.
- There are no losses.
- 6 Mosquitos are sent to Düren, 3 to Dortmund, 10 Stirlings and 6 Halifaxes lay mines off Cherbourg, Le Havre and La Pallice.
- There are no losses.
| ]Air Operations, Japan
3 28th Composite Bomb Group B-24s reconnoiter and attack the airfield on Matusuwa and Onnekotan Island.
[ | ]Air Operations, New Guinea
Before dawn, V Bomber Command B-24s and Fleet Air Wing 17 PB4Ys and PBYs attack the Wakde Islands. More than 80 V Bomber Command B-24s and A-29s attack the airfields at But and Dagua. 33 A-20s attack Aitape. B-24s, B-25s, and P-39s mount light attacks against Hansa Bay, Uligan, and the Wakde Islands.
[ | ]Britain, Home Front
The 5th Earl of Lonsdale, sportsman and donor of the 'Lonsdale Belts' awarded to champion boxers, dies at age 87.
[ | ]Eastern Front
In the Crimea Tolbukhin's and Yeremenko's tank forces advance rapidly, capturing Feodosia, Evpatoriya, and Simferopol. The Germans and Rumanians are retreating in some disorder toward Sevastopol. Farther west Malinovsky's men take Ovidiopol at the mouth of the Dniestr.
SOUTHERN SECTORThe 46th Army takes Oviodopol at the mouth of the Dniestr. At Tarnopol the 1st Guards Army splits Group Neinhoff apart, isolating half on the west bank of the Siret and the other in the Zagrobela suburb.
The 51st Army closes upon Simferopol. Jaenecke plans to make a stand in the Belbek Valley but first has to beat the Soviet forces in the race to Sevastopol. Feodosia falls to the Independent Coastal Army and Evpatoria to the 2nd Guards.
[ | ]India
The Japanese start to suffer serious setbacks in the U-GO offensive. Allied troops have today pushed the Japanese off Nungshigum Hill on the Imphal plain, allowing them to intensify attacks on the Japanese 15th Div.
In Kohima, Japanese forces push into the center of the settlement, throwing themselves at positions reaching from GPT Ridge in the south the the 'Tennis Court' in the north around the district commissioner's residence. A tenacious defense by 1,500 Allied troops (mostly from the Assam Rifles and 4th Royal West Kents) beats back the Japanese, who also suffer heavy casualties from 3.74in howitzer fire from Jotsama.
[ | ]New Guinea
The Australians take Bogadjim.
[ | ]Pacific
The Japanese destroyer Ikazuchi is sunk by the US submarine Harder (SS-257) in the Central Pacific area.
[ | ]Images from April 13, 1944
Crash Site of a Plane from the 384th Bomb Group Shot Down on the Mission to Schweinfurt, 13 April 1944 |
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Corporal Awai of the Royal Papuan Constabulary |
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Canadians Manning a PIAT Anti-tank Weapon |
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Canadians Training in England |
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First Visit to the 461st Bomb Group |
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Robert S. Johnson of the 61st Fighter Squadron in his P-47 Thunderbolt, 13 April 1944 |
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