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• I-168 transferred men from Kiska to Attu in the Aleutian Islands. ww2dbase [I-68 / I-168 | CPC]
• RAF bombers conducted a raid on Kiel, Germany during the night. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | CPC]
• Soviet troops launched the Taman Offensive Operation in an attempt to push the Germans out of the Taman Peninsula in the Caucasus region of southern Russia. ww2dbase [Caucasus Campaign | CPC]
• USS Tunny set sail for McLaughlin Bank, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Tunny | CPC]
• No. 254 Squadron of Coastal Command achieved its first success against enemy shipping using torpedo carrying Beaufighter aircraft. ww2dbase [Beaufighter | AC]
• The final elements of US Marine Aircraft Group 21 arrived at Banika Island, Russell Islands. ww2dbase [CPC]
• USS Pollack damaged a Japanese freighter in the Marshall Islands and Gilbert Islands area with two of two torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Pollack | CPC]
• Unable to do it himself, George Patton ordered Omar Bradley to fire Orlando Ward for Ward's failures at Kasserine Pass, Tunisia. ww2dbase [George Patton | CPC]

• USS Grayback arrived at Brisbane, Australia, ending her sixth war patrol. ww2dbase [Grayback | Brisbane, Queensland | CPC]

• Isoroku Yamamoto and Ryunosuke Kusaka met at Rabaul, New Britain to discuss the details of the I-Go offensive. ww2dbase [Isoroku Yamamoto | Rabaul, New Britain | CPC]

• US Marine Corps squadron VMF-124, equipped with F4U fighters, was assigned to Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Henderson Field | Lunga Point, Guadalcanal | CPC]

• Satoru Anabuki, flying Ki-43 fighter "Fubuki", shot down two Hurricane fighters over Dohazari, India (now Bangladesh), increasing his score to 31. ww2dbase [Satoru Anabuki | Dohazari | CPC]

• The only large-scale prisoner of war escape of the Pacific War took place at the Davao Penal Colony, Mindanao, Philippines. It was led by US Army Air Forces Captain William Dyess. ww2dbase [The Davao Escape | Davao Penal Colony | Ed Dyess | Panabo, Davao | CPC]

• The German SS Central Construction Office reported to Auschwitz Concentration Camp that Crematorium V had been completed in Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and its administration was now turned over to the camp administration. According to the firm that built the crematorium, J. A. Topf und Söhne, it had the capacity to cremate 768 bodies each day. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Oswiecim | CPC]

• Submarine Cero was launched at Groton, Connecticut, United States, sponsored by Mrs. D. E. Barbey. ww2dbase [Electric Boat Company | Cero | Groton, Connecticut | CPC]
• USS S-44 arrived at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States. ww2dbase [Philadelphia Navy Yard | S-44 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | CPC]

• US Navy 50th Construction Battalion arrived at Midway Atoll to relieve the 5th Construction Battalion. It was to continue the work to lengthen the airstrips and to build oil storage tanks on Sand Island. ww2dbase [Midway Bases | Midway | CPC]

4 Apr 1943 Interactive Map