Air Operations, Carolines

During the night, VII Bomber Command B-24s attack the Truk Atoll.

Air Operations, CBI

• 24 10th Air Force A-31s attack Japanese Army positions and occupied villages in the Buthidaung area.

• 3 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s attack 2 freighters in the Formosa Strait.

Air Operations, Europe

• 29 Mosquitos are sent to Leverkusen, 7 to Achéres, 9 Stirlings lay mines in the Frisians and there are 2 RCM sorties.

Air Operations, New Guinea

• 2 V Bomber Command B-24s attack an airfield on Biak Island in the Schouten group.
• A-20s and V Fighter Command fighter-bombers mount more than 120 sorties through the day against numerous targets between Hansa Bay and Wewak.
• 8 B-25s attack oil stores and other targets in the Wakde Islands.
• 2 B-25s attack airfields at Boram and Wewak.

Eastern Front

The 2nd Tank Army and 27th Army launch a spoiling attack at Targul-Frumos, north of Jassy. The LVII Panzer and IV Corps counterattack, inflicting heavy casualties upon the attackers.

Occupied France

The management of the Aubert and Duval steel works at Ancizes co-operates with the Resistance in a complete shut-down.

Spain, Politics

In exchange for Allied oil from the Americas, Spain changes its pro-Axis political attitude withdrawing its volunteers from the Azul Division on the Russian front and cutting down its monthly export to Germany of tungsten to 40 tons. Tungsten is required in the production of hollow-charge shells.

Images from May 2, 1944

Ki-54 Wreck Cyclops Airfield Hollandia, NEI, 2 May 1944

HMAS Vendetta Landing Troops and Stores at Madang, 2 May 1944

The cargo ship Asosan Maru had been torpedoed twice by Bluegill during the night of 1-2 May 1944 in the Palau Davao shipping lane. Bluegill found her still afloat at dawn on 2 May 1944 and finished her off with gunfire

Cargo Ship Sunk by Submarine