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• 54-year-old Leonard Dawe, a teacher, compiled a cross-puzzle which was published in the Daily Telegraph on this date. He was put under MI5 investigation as the crossword puzzle contained the code names of the American landing beaches in Normandy, France. ww2dbase [Normandy Campaign, Phase 1 | CPC]
• USS Bailey arrived at Majuro. ww2dbase [Bailey | DS]

• Gato-class submarine USS Silversides departed Milne Bay, New Guinea bound for her tenth war patrol. ww2dbase [Silversides | Milne Bay, New Guinea | DS]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: First mention made of Night Combat Training Unit. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• Nachi refueled from oiler Teiyo Maru at Ominato Guard District, Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. ww2dbase [Nachi | Mutsu, Aomori | CPC]

• USS Whale made rendezvous with destroyer escort USS Fair. ww2dbase [Whale | CPC]

• Two transports arrived at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp with 1,800 Jews from Budapest, Hungary and 2,000 from Topolya, Yugoslavia. 1,102 were registered into the camp, and the remaining 2,698 were sent to the gas chambers. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Oswiecim | CPC]

• Kamoi was tied to quay No. 13 at Singapore. ww2dbase [Kamoi | Singapore | CPC]

• Floating drydock USS ABSD-2 departed California, United States in 10 separate sections. ww2dbase [ABSD-2 | California | CPC]
• Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Steamer Bay departed Seattle, Washington bound for San Diego, California. ww2dbase [Steamer Bay | Seattle, Washington | DS]
• Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Sargent Bay arrived at San Diego, California, ww2dbase [Sargent Bay | San Diego, California | DS]

2 May 1944 Interactive Map