Air Operations, CBI

• 25 10th Air Force B-25s and P-51 fighter-bombers attack Japanese Army positions at Hopin.
• 48 A-31s attack Japanese Army positions at Kalewa and near Bishenpur (India).
• 24 A-31s attack Japanese Army troops and artillery positions at Lahaw.
• 11 P-40s attack a rail shed at Myitkyina and a bridge and road targets at Kazu.
• 12 459th Fighter Squadron P-38s attack traffic on the Tiddim road at Tonzang.
• More than 20 P-38s and P-51s attack the airfield at Heho and the Kanguang airfield at Meiktila.
• P-51s with the 311th Fighter Group�s 530th Fighter Squadron down 4 Japanese fighters over the Meiktila airfield at 0935 hours.

• 60 14th Air Force P-40s and P-51s attack river traffic, rail lines, and motor vehicles at Pailochi, Sienning, and Yoyang, and a supply area at Shayang.
• 20 P-40 fighter-bombers attack several occupied villages and towns.
• 6 Japanese bombers attack the airfield at Kienow.
• P-40s with the 23d Fighter Group�s 75th Fighter Squadron down 2 Japanese fighters in a morning engagement near Yochow.

Air Operations, Europe

There is a night raid on Bristol and southwestern England by 91 planes. 15 are lost.

• 30 Mosquitos are sent to Ludwigshafen, 10 to Carpiquet airfield near Caen and 3 to Leverkusen, 43 aircraft lay mines from Kiel to Biscay, 6 aircraft are on Resistance operations, and there are 2 Serrate patrols and 1 RCM and 24 OTU sorties.
• 3 mine-laying Lancasters and 1 OTU Wellington are lost.

• 12th Air Force B-25s and B-26s attack bridges, bridge approaches, and viaducts north and northwest of Rome.
• XII TAC A-20s attack German Army command posts in the battle area.

• XII TAC fighter-bombers attack road and rail targets, gun emplacements, bridges, and an array of tactical targets throughout the battle area.
• P-40 pilots of the XII TAC's 324th Fighter Group attack German Army ground forces in the enemy stronghold at Castellonorato, dropping fragmentation, demolition, and phosphorous bombs so accurately and with such force that the German garrison immediately surrenders to nearby Allied ground units.

• 15th Air Force B-24s attack the Piacenza and Reggio Emilia Airdromes.
• 15th Air Force B-17s attack marshalling yards at Ferrara and Mantua and the Piacenza Airdrome.
• 48 15th Air Force P-38s strafe the Aviano and Villaorba Airdromes.

Air Operations, New Guinea

• V and XIII Bomber command B-24s, V Bomber Command B-25s and A-20s, and V Fighter Command fighter-bombers attack numerous targets between Hansa Bay and Wewak, and in the Wakde Islands area.
• B-24s attack the Sorido airfield and supplies at Bosnik.

Atlantic

In a German E-boat attack against Allied landing craft lying off the coast near the Isle of Wight, the French destroyer La Combattante sinks S-141 in which Dönitz's second son Klaus is serving. The young German is lost with the rest of the crew.

Baltic Sea

U-1234 is sunk after she is struck broadside by the steam tug Anton with the loss of 13 of her crew.

U-1234

Italy

12,000 men, Moroccans and elements of the the 4th Mountain Div under the command of Gen Augustin Guillaume of the French Corps, break into the Ausente Valley, take Ausonia and push on over the Aurunci Mountains toward the next German line, hoping to break into it before the Germans can occupy it in strength. Their advance helps the American forces on their left to speed their own move foreward against the German 94th Div. The 78th Div of the British XIII Corps succeeds in crossing the Rapido River near Sant'Angelo in Theodice and in establishing a bridgehead across the river.

New Britain

The Japanese, after holding up the American efforts to extend their beachheads for so long, retire on Rabaul. 5,000 men of the 65th Bde are dead and 500 have been taken prisoner, an enormous figure in view of the Japanese standards and their code of honor.

New Guinea

The Americans evacuate by sea some units which the Japanese have managed to cut off.

Pacific

• The Japanese destroyer Inazuma is sunk by the US submarine Bonefish (SS-223) in the Celebes Sea near Tawi Tawi, east of Borneo.
• The US submarines Aspro (SS-309) and Bowfin (SS-287) attack a Japanese convoy about 90 miles northwest of Palau and sink the cargo ship Bisan Maru (4500t).
• The US submarine Sand Lance (SS-381) sinks the Japanese army cargo ship Koho Maru (4291t) southwest of Apra harbor, Guam.

Images from May 14, 1944

US Tanks in Coreno Ausonio

Wounded Coming Back for Treatment

Explosion from Shell Fired at German Positions

Collecting Ammunition

Providing Covering Fire

Crossing Over Pontoon Bridge

Group of German Prisoners