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• The Icelandic airline Lofteide HF was founded, which would inaugurate its initial service on 7 Apr 1944. ww2dbase [CPC]
• HMS Asphodel (New Zealand Lieutenant M. A. Halliday) was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-575 whilst escorting convoy SL-150. ww2dbase [Conclusion of the Battle of the Atlantic | AC]
• 2 bombers of the 2nd Bomber Squadron of the Chinese-American Composite Wing attacked Japanese ships in the Yangtze River in China. On the return flight, one of the B-25 bombers ran out of fuel and unsuccessfully crash landed, killing the entire crew. On the same day, B-25 bombers of the US 14th Air Force escorted by P-38 fighters attacked Anqing, Anhui, China, sinking a motor launch, damaged two cargo vessels, and damaged a barge; fighters of the Japanese 25th Sentai rose to intercept, shooting down on P-38 fighter. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Repair ship Akashi began repairing transport Bichu Maru at Palau Islands. ww2dbase [Akashi | CPC]

• US military leadership estimated that about 60% of Rabaul, New Britain had been destroyed. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | Rabaul, New Britain | CPC]
• 24 New Zealand Kittyhawk fighters, each armed with a 500-pound bomb, attacked Vunapope, New Britain. About 300 Japanese personnel were killed, 1 civilian was killed, and 7 civilians were wounded. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | Vunapope, New Britain | CPC]

• Frank Merrill met with Joseph Stilwell at Stilwell's headquarters at Maingkwan, Burma, and then returned to his own field headquarters at Shikau Ga. ww2dbase [Frank Merrill | Joseph Stilwell | Maingkwan | CPC]

• Heinrich Himmler lifted various laws against Jewish and Roma people as their "evacuation and isolation" had already been achieved. ww2dbase [Heinrich Himmler | CPC]
• Ar 234B jet aircraft took its first flight with civilian test pilot Joachim Carl in the cockpit. ww2dbase [Ar 234 Blitz | CPC]

• Evripidis Bakirtzis became the head of the Political Committee of National Liberation (PEEA) of Greece. ww2dbase [Evripidis Bakirtzis | CPC]

• USS Haddock departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her ninth war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Haddock | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• Nachi arrived at Ominato Guard District, Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, Japan and refueled from oiler Teiyo Maru. ww2dbase [Nachi | Mutsu, Aomori | CPC]
• Rear Admiral Matsuo Morizumi was made the commanding officer of Maizuru Naval Arsenal in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. ww2dbase [Maizuru Naval Arsenal | Maizuru, Kyoto | CPC]
• Landing ship No. 150 was completed. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]

• 1,501 Jews arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp from Drancy Concentration Camp in Paris. 110 men and 80 women were registered into the camp, while the remaining 1,311 were sent to the gas chambers. ww2dbase [Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Oswiecim | CPC]

• The Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front captured Uman, Ukraine on its way toward the Bug and Dneiper Rivers. ww2dbase [Uman | TH]

• Allied convoy RA-57 arrived at Loch Ewe, Scotland, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Loch Ewe, Scotland | CPC]

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