Air Operations, Carolines - Beginning with a dawn sweep of all airfields by 84 fighters, Task Force 58 [see April 21, 1944] carrier aircraft open a two-day attack against the Truk Atoll.
- Between 0750 and 1030 hours, US Navy F6Fs down 54 Japanese fighters and 1 D4Y 'Judy' dive bomber over the Truk Atoll.
- A VF-31 F6F downs 1 D4Y 'Judy' dive bomber at sea 25 miles from the US carriers at 0832 hours.
- A VT-23 TBM crew downs a B5N 'Kate' torpedo bomber only 1 mile from the USS Princeton at 0915 hours.
- A VF-8 F6F downs 1 G4M 'Betty' bomber at sea 33 miles from Task Force 58 at 1214 hours.
- 5th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s attack the Woleai Atoll.
- During the night, VII Bomber Command B-24s attack the Truk Atoll.
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Air Operations, CBI
BURMA
- 19 7th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s attack supply dumps in the Prome area.
- 12 10th Air Force A-31s attack Japanese Army positions near Buthidaung.
- 25 B-25s and P-51 fighter-bombers attack Meza.
- 21 459th Fighter Squadron P-38s attack the airfield at Heho.
- 459th Fighter Squadron P-38s down 4 Ki-43 'Oscar' fighters over the Heho airfield at 1705 hours.
CHINA
- 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s attack barracks and warehouses at Shayang.
- 3 B-25s attack several vessels at Chiuchiang.
- 449th Fighter Squadron P-38s down 3 Ki-43 'Oscar' fighters near Chiuchiang at 1030 hours.
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Air Operations, Europe
RAF BOMBER COMMAND
Evening Ops:
- 68 Lancasters and 5 Mosquitos of No. 5 Group return to the explosives factory at St Médard En Jalles and carry out a concentrated bombing of it without a loss.
- 54 Lancasters and 5 Mosquitos of No. 5 Group attack the Michelin tire factory at Clermont-Ferrand accurately with no losses.
Other Ops:
- 8 Mosquitos are sent to Oberhausen, 4 to the Achéres railway yards, 34 Halifaxes and 4 Stirlings lay mines off French ports and in the Frisians, 20 aircraft are on Resistance operations, and there are 6 Serrate patrols and 9 OTU sorties.
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Air Operations, New Guinea - 27 V Bomber Command B-25s bomb and strafe Sawar and Sarmi.
- 6 B-25s bomb Wakde Island.
- More than 40 A-20s attack dumps at Cape Wom and targets of opportunity between But and Dagua.
- More than 130 A-20s, P-47s, and P-39s attack suspected troop areas and barge hideouts between the Sepik River and Cape Croisilles.
- During the night, 6 63rd Heavy Bomb Squadron SB-24 based in the Markham Valley attack Wakde Island in support of a US naval bombardment of the area.
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Allied Preparations In a 'Tiger' training exercise for D-Day, 3 landing craft are sunk by German torpedo boats in Devon at Slapton Sandsends. At least 638 US soldiers are killed.
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Battle of the Atlantic The German submarine U-421 is sunk by US Army aircraft off Toulon, France.
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Carolines Over the next two days Adm Mitscher's TF 58, which includes 12 aircraft carriers, sends heavy strikes against the Japanese base at Truk. Of the establishment of 104 aircraft 93 are shot down for the loss of 35(26?) of the carriers' machines many of whose pilots are saved. Shipping, fuel and ammunition depots, airfields and other military installations are destroyed. With this blow Nimitz obliterates any possible danger to the New Guinea operations.
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English Channel The Canadian destroyer Athabaskan, covering minelaying operations off the coast of France, is sunk by German torpedo boat T-24 off St Brieux. 128 of the crew are lost. 44 are rescued by the Canadian destroyer Haida. Another 85 of the crew are picked up by German vessels and made prisioners of war.
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New Guniea The captured Japanese airfields at Hollandia and Aitape are reopened with great speed by American engineers.
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Occupied France The Resistance cripples the newly repaired Dunlop factory, which had been damaged in an air raid, at Montluçon.
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Pacific The Japanese submarine I-174 is sunk by aircraft from the US light carrier Monterey (CVL-26) and the destroyers MacDonough (DD-351) and Stephen Potter (DD-538) in the Caroline Islands area.
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Images from April 29, 1944
The 29cm Petard spigot mortar on a Churchill AVRE of 79th Squadron, 5th Assault Regiment, Royal Engineers, under command of 3rd Infantry Division, 29 April 1944. A 40lb bomb can be seen on the right.
29cm Petard Spigot Mortar on a Churchill AVRE
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'Spud Barbers' at Work near the Cookhouse at Hove Supply Dump in the Cassino Area, 29 April 1944
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A Group of New Zealand Provosts Attached to HQ 5 NZ Infantry Brigade at Hove Dump in the Cassino Area, Italy, 29 April 1944
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Military Truck Towing a Jeep on the the Inferno Track, Cassino Area, Italy, 29 April 1944
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A Dummy Sherman Tank Under Construction by 6 Field Park Company, Royal Engineers, in the Anzio Bridgehead, 29 April 1944
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A Dummy Sherman Tank, Constructed by 6 Field Park Company, Royal Engineers, in the Anzio Bridgehead, 29 April 1944
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Cutella Airfield, Italy. 29 April 1944
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Priest 105mm Self-propelled Gun of 303rd Battery, 76th Highland Field Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, Emsworth, Hampshire, 29 April 1944
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40lb bombs as used by the 29cm Petard spigot mortar on a Churchill AVRE of 79th Squadron, 5th Assault Regiment, Royal Engineers, under command of 3rd Infantry Division, 29 April 1944.
40lb Bombs as Used by the 29cm Petard Spigot Mortar
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Hove Dump water point 29 April 1944. The three 'S' tanks seen here in Hove Dump were placed there on 1st-2nd April by 4 Div Engrs
Hove Dump Water Point
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Japanese Naval Base at Truk Island after US Naval Air Attack, 29 April 1944
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