Air Operations, Carolines

• XIII Bomber Command B-24s attack the Puluwat and Woleai atolls.
• VII Bomber Command B-24s returning from the Momote aiefield on Los Negros to the Marshall Islands attack the Truk Atoll.

Air Operations, CBI

• 9 10th Air Force B-25s attack the rail line between Hopin and Namma.
• B-25s and fighter-bombers complete more than 100 sorties against rail lines and bridges around Hopin, Loilaw, Mogaung, and Myitkyina.
• 14th Air Force B-25s attack a bridge at Wan Pa-Hsa.

• 5 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s and 12 14th Air Force P-40s attack Japanese Army strongpoints and supply dumps at Loyang and along the Yangtze and Yellow rivers.
• B-25s attack Lungling.
• 48 fighters support the Chinese Army Y Force on the Salween River front.
• 31 transports drop supplies to Chinese Army ground forces on the Salween River front.
• 8 51st Fighter Group P-51s attack targets of opportunity in the Peking area.
• 16 P-38s and P-51s dive-bomb the Nanchang bridge and nearby targets.
• Japanese aircraft attack the airfields at Hengyang and Liangshan.
• 4 USAAF aircraft are destroyed on the ground, and a fuel dump is blown up.
• A 51st Fighter Group P-40 downs a Ki-27 'Nate' fighter over the Pingting airfield at Peking during the morning.

• 3 7th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s attack the road between Imphal and Tiddim (Burma).

Air Operations, Central Pacific

VII Bomber Command B-24s returning from the Momote airfield on Los Negros to the Marshall Islands attack Wake Island.

Air Operations, Europe

• 50 Lancasters and 4 Mosquitos of Nos. 3 and 8 Groups attack a coastal gun position at Boulogne without a loss.
• 30 Mosquitos are sent to Leverkusen, 12 Stirlings lay mines off the Dutch and French coasts and 11 Stirlings are on Resistance operations.
• There are no losses.

• 39 3rd Bomb Division B-17s attack a marshalling yard in Brussels.

• 76 3rd Bomb Division B-17s attack V-weapons sites in the Pas-de-Calais.
• 62 3rd Bomb Division B-17s attack a marshalling yard at Reims.
• 60 3rd Bomb Division B-17s attack a marshalling yard at Troyes.
• 37 VIII Fighter Command P-47 fighter-bombers attack a rail bridge at Longueil.
• 26 VIII Fighter Command P-47s bomb a rail bridge at Beaumont-sur-Oise.
• 23 VIII Fighter Command P-47s bomb a rail bridge at Canly-le-Jouque.
• 12 VIII Fighter Command P-38s bomb a rail bridge at Creil.

• 83 1st Bomb Division B-17s attack aircraft-industry factories at Dessau.
• 107 1st Bomb Division B-17s attack aircraft-industry factories at Halberstadt.
• 51 1st Bomb Division B-17s attack aircraft-industry factories at Oschersleben.
• 135 2nd Bomb Division B-24s attack the Oldenburg Airdrome.
• 147 2nd Bomb Division B-24s attack the Rotenburg Airdrome.
• 71 2nd Bomb Divison B-24s attack the Zwischenahn Airdrome.
• 36 3rd Bomb Division B-24s attack the Diepholz Airdrome.
• 46 3rd Bomb Division B-24s attack the Munster/Handorf Airdrome.
• Escort for the 8th Air Force heavy-bomber missions to Germany, France, and Belgium is provided by a total of 672 VIII Fighter Command fighters and 637 IX Fighter Command fighters. The USAAF fighter pilots down 58 Luftwaffe fighter over Germany between 1100 and 1220 hours.
• 12 fighters and their pilots are lost

• 9th Air Force P-47 fighter-bombers attack numerous targets in Belgium.

• IX Bomber Command B-26s attack the Denain/Prouvy and Mantes/Limay Airdromes, and highway bridges at Meulan and Rouen.
• Several hundred Ninth Air Force P-47 fighter-bombers attack scores of other targets.

• 12th Air Force B-25s and B-26s attack many bridges and viaducts, damaging or destroying ten of them and thus adding to the troubles of the German Army forces attempting to stem the general Allied advance in central Italy.
• XII TAC A-20s and fighter-bombers attack defended towns and gun emplacements in the battle area, and motor vehicles wherever they are encountered.

• Following an assessment of cumulative bomb damage throughout the Wiener-Neustadt aircraft-industry complex, 15th Air Force planners become convinced that one more successful attack will force the Germans and Austrians to write it off. 299 B-24s, therefore, attack five separate factories and mills around Wiener-Neustadt, of which several are demolished and one is missed altogether by misdropped bombs.

• 56 15th Air Force B-17s attack a marshalling yard at Zagreb, and P-38 and P-51 escort fighters strafe numerous targets of opportunity.

Air Operations, New Guinea

• V Bomber Command B-24s attack Japen Island.
• Several B-25s attack Japanese Army positions on Biak Island, but all other air support is thwarted by bad weather.
• B-25s attack the airfield at Timoeka and surrounding antiaircraft positions.
• B-25s attack targets at Sarmi, Sawar, and in the Wakde Islands.
• More than 70 B-24s, B-25s, A-20s, fighter-bombers, and RAAF aircraft attack Wewak.

CBI

Gen Joseph Stilwell replaces Col John E. McCammon with Gen Haydon L. Boatner to take command of the Myitkyina Task Force.

Eastern Front

In the first flurry of summer activity the Germans throw in powerful attacks against Konev's forces near Jassy in Rumania.

The Germans launch a limited counterattack around Jassy but the fighting is only local and gains little.

Italy

Arce is taken by British troops of 8th Army after a stubborn battle. In the Anzio sector the US forces are nearing the important position at Velletri. In the US 5th Army sector the Germans hold their positions between Albano and Velletri in spite of repeated attacks by the numerically superior Allied forces.

Further north the Canadian I Corps continues its advance towards Frosinone.

New Guinea

There are minor skirmishes on Biak, where the Americans are re-grouping. In the Wadke-Sarmi area the US 158th Inf establishes a new defensive line along the Tirfoam River. There are Japanese night attacks along the perimeter of the Arare mainland beachhead, opposite Biak.

Occupied France

The Resistance sabotages equipment at the Decazeville Colliery. 3 more attacks will take place in June.

Pacific

• The US submarine Guitarro (SS-363) sinks the Japanese merchant cargo ship Shisen Maru (2201t) 60 miles southeast of Keelung, Formosa.
• The US submarine Pompon (SS-267) sinks the Japanese merchant passenger/cargo ship Shiga Maru (742t) off Murotosaki, Japan.
• The US submarine Rasher (SS-269) continues attacking a Japanese convoy in the eastern Celebes Sea sinking the gunboat Anshu Maru (2601t) that had been damaged the previous day.

Images from May 30, 1944

A Collision on Base

Bf 109 in Italian Service

Rommel Inspecting a Panzer Division

Rommel Inspecting a Panzer Division

Clearing Rubble in Hannover

A Daimler Dingo in the Atina Belmonte Area

Tanks Pushing from the Anzio Beachhead

Following Up the Retreating Enemy