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• Milton Robbins was born in Jerome, Arizona, United States. ww2dbase [Milton Miles | Jerome, Arizona | CPC]

• Virginia Hall was born in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. ww2dbase [Virginia Hall | Baltimore, Maryland | CPC]

• The United States declared war on Germany. ww2dbase [AC]
• HMS Effingham was laid down at Portsmouth Dockyard, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Effingham | CPC]

• Edmund Herring married Mary Ranken Lyle. ww2dbase [Edmund Herring | CPC]

• USS R-1 completed its participation in fleet exercises off Central America. ww2dbase [R-1 | CPC]
• USS R-5 completed war games in the Gulf of Fonseca in Central America. ww2dbase [R-5 | CPC]

• Italian Fascists won the elections in Italy with a 2/3 majority. ww2dbase [CPC]

• The order for torpedo boat Jaguar was given. ww2dbase [Jaguar | CPC]

6 Apr 1925 Interactive Map

6 Apr 1929 Interactive Map

• Josias was promoted to the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer. ww2dbase [Josias | CPC]

• Kong Xiangxi was made the President of the Central Bank of China. ww2dbase [Kong Xiangxi | CPC]

• Ma Zhongying and his forces arrived at Kashgar, Xinjiang, China. ww2dbase [Xinjiang Wars | Kashgar, Xinjiang | CPC]

6 Apr 1935 Interactive Map

• Aubrey Fitch was made the commanding officer of USS Lexington. ww2dbase [Aubrey Fitch | DS]

• Kichisaburo Nomura was named the principal of Gakushuin school. ww2dbase [Kichisaburo Nomura | CPC]

• At 1530 hours, unable to defend against the Chinese counter offensive launched on the previous day, Japanese troops began to withdraw from Tai'erzhuang, Shandong Province, China, abandoning ammunition and heavy equipment in their wake. ww2dbase [Battle of Xuzhou | Tai'erzhuang, Shandong | CPC]

• The United States recognized the German occupation of Austria. ww2dbase [Annexation of Austria | CPC]
• P-39 Airacobra took its first flight at Wright Field, Ohio, United States. ww2dbase [P-39 Airacobra | Riverside, Ohio | CPC]

6 Apr 1938 Interactive Map

• The 30 Mar 1939 British-French-Polish agreement to mutually guarantee each others' borders was signed into a formal treaty in London, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [The Danzig Crisis | London, England | CPC]

• RAF Bomber Command suspended leaflet dropping missions in Germany. ww2dbase [CPC]
• German submarine U-59 torpedoed and sank Norwegian steamer Navarra 20 miles off the Scottish coast at 0316 hours, killing 12. Finnish steamer Atlas rescued 14 survivors in a lifeboat. ww2dbase [CPC]
• British submarines Truant and Seal departed Rosyth, Scotland for the Norwegian coast, while Tarpon was ordered to patrol the German coast near Helgoland Bight. ww2dbase [CPC]
• RAF aircraft conducted a photo reconnaissance mission over Kiel, Germany to monitor preparations for the German invasion of Norway. German Kriegsmarine's Marine Gruppe 1 departed Cuxhaven, Germany for Narvik, Norway with 2,000 soldiers on 10 destroyers escorted by battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. Marine Gruppe 2 departed Wesermünde, Germany for Trondheim, Norway with 1,700 soldiers on 4 destroyers escorted by cruiser Admiral Hipper. Both departures were made after nightfall to escape British detection. ww2dbase [Invasion of Denmark and Norway | CPC]
• Orion departed Germany on her first raiding mission. ww2dbase [Orion | CPC]

• German submarine U-1 disappeared in the North Sea, and the crew of 24 were never seen again. The submarine most likely was lost to a British naval mine. ww2dbase [North Sea | CPC]

• Emden embarked 600 troops at Swinemünde, Germany. ww2dbase [Emden | Swinemünde, Pommern | CPC]
• Fleet escort ship F2 was recommissioned into service. ww2dbase [F2 | CPC]

• British armed merchant cruiser HMS Comorin, carrying military personnel for British West Africa, caught fire 450 miles west of Ireland; 20 were killed, 405 survived. ww2dbase [CPC]
• German submarine U-94 sank Norwegian tanker Lincoln Ellsworth 100 miles southwest of Ireland at 1700 hours with 2 torpedoes and 121 rounds from the deck gun. The entire crew survived in 2 lifeboats. ww2dbase [CPC]

• British 11th African Division captured the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa unopposed; the Italian garrison originally based in Addis Ababa had withdrawn north to Gondar and Amba Alagi. ww2dbase [Invasion of Italian East Africa | Addis Ababa | CPC]

• RAF Beaufort aircraft torpedoed German battlecruiser Gneisenau at Brest, France. During this attack, Flying Officer Kenneth Campbell of No. 22 Squadron RAF Coastal Command, who scored the hit with an Mk XII torpedo, was hit by anti-aircraft fire and crashed with the loss of the entire crew. Campbell would be awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for his gallantry. ww2dbase [Gneisenau | Brest, Bretagne | CPC, AC]

• British and Australian troops hurriedly evacuated Barce and Derna, Libya, falling back toward Tobruk to avoid being cut off by the advancing German troops. On the same day, Axis troops captured Msus, Libya, a major fuel and supply dump; the fuel was destroyed by the Allies before German capture. German troops besieged Mechili by 1700 hours. After dark, British generals General Neame and O'Connor began evacuating themselves to Tmimi west of Tobruk. ww2dbase [Siege of Tobruk | Richard O'Connor | CPC]

• A transport of 1,021 prisoners from Pawiak Prison in Warsaw, Poland arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Famous actors Bronislaw Dardzinski, Tadeusz Hertman Kanski, Stefan Jaracz, Zbigniew Nowakowski, and Leon Schiller were among them, arrested for the murder of actor Igo Sym who collaborated with German propaganda efforts. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Oswiecim | CPC]

• Before dawn, German, Hungarian, and Italian forces invaded Yugoslavia from Austria, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania. German Luftwaffe swiftly destroyed Yugoslavian Air Force on the ground and devastated Belgrade with aerial bombing between 0700 and 0830 hours, killing 4,000 civilians; on the ground, German forces spearheaded by armor reached the Skopje and Veles areas in southern Yugoslavia. On the same day, German, Hungarian, and Italian forces invaded Greece from Bulgaria. Unlike the success in Yugoslavia, the invasion was slowed by Greek and British troops at the Metaxas Line. After sundown, a Luftwaffe raid on Piraeus, Greece got an unexpected boost when the ammunition ship Clan Fraser was hit, with the resulting blast doing more damage to the port facilities than the aerial bombs dropped by the Germans; the explosion also caused the sinking of 11 other freighters. ww2dbase [Balkans Campaign | TH]

6 Apr 1941 Interactive Map

• First men of US 41st Division arrived at Melbourne, Australia. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Japanese troops landed on Bougainville, Solomon Islands and Lorengau, Admiralty Islands. ww2dbase [Solomon Islands Campaign | CPC]
• German submarine U-160 damaged US tanker Bidwell 50 kilometers east of Wilmington, North Carolina, United States at 0807 hours, killing 1 of 33 aboard; her crew would manage to repair and bring her back to port for repairs. At 1700 hours, U-571 sank Norwegian tanker Koll 250 miles northwest of Bermuda; 2 were killed, 33 survived (1 of whom would later die of exposure before being rescued). ww2dbase [Second Happy Time | CPC]
• Japanese submarine I-4 sank US freighter Washingtonian off the Maldive Islands in the Indian Ocean at 1600 hours. ww2dbase [CPC]
• British destroyer HMS Havock ran aground off Cape Bon, Tunisia and was scuttled by her crew. ww2dbase [CPC]

• At 0200 hours, B-17 bombers of US 22nd Bomb Group were launched from Seven Mile airfield near Port Moresby, Australian Papua. One hour later, the faster B-26 bombers were launched. Flying toward Rabaul, New Britain, this was the first B-17 combat mission against that location as well as the first B-26 combat mission. The B-17 bombers struck first (despite the fact that the two were supposed to be attacking at the same time), causing no damage. By the time the B-26 bombers arrived, 7 Japanese A5M fighters were already in the air, although they failed to close in on the B-26 bombers. The B-26 bombers caused very little damage. ww2dbase [Rabaul, New Britain | AC, CPC]

• Japanese troops captured Mandalay, Burma. Off Akyab on the western coast of Burma, Japanese aircraft sank Indian sloop HMIS Indus. ww2dbase [Invasion of Burma | CPC]
• Japanese Army bombers sank the Royal Indian Navy's sloop Indus at Akyab, Arakan (now Sittwe, Rakhine), Burma. ww2dbase [Akyab, Arakan | AC]

• Naka completed her temporary repairs at Bantam Bay, Java, Dutch East Indies and departed for Singapore. ww2dbase [Naka | Java | CPC]

• 157 British bombers (110 Wellington, 19 Stirling, 18 Hampden, and 10 Manchester aircraft) attacked Essen, Germany; most of them were turned back by a storm. 5 aircraft were lost in this mission. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Essen | CPC]

• Japanese warships sank 13 freighters southeast of India, while carrier aircraft from Ryujo conducted raids against ports Vizagapatam and Cocanada on the eastern coast of India, sinking 3 ships. ww2dbase [Raids into the Indian Ocean | CPC]
• Kurita's Northern Group attacked and sank seven merchant ships totaling 41,000 tons along India's northeastern coast south of Calcutta (Kolkata). ww2dbase [Raids into the Indian Ocean | Takeo Kurita | Suzuya | Kumano | DS]
• Sakiyama's Southern Group of Mogami, Mikuma and destroyer Amagiri sank four merchantmen totaling 19,000 tons with two of them finished off with torpedoes from Amagiri. ww2dbase [Raids into the Indian Ocean | Mogami | Mikuma | Amagiri | DS]

• British tug HMS West Cocker was destroyed by Axis aircraft at Malta. ww2dbase [Malta Campaign | CPC]

• Japanese aircraft continued to attack American and Filipino targets at Bataan, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Invasion of the Philippine Islands | Bataan | CPC]

• German Luftwaffe group II./KG 27 flew a supply operation for the German troops trapped in Kholm, Russia. Three He 111 aircraft failed to return; one of which was forced to land within the pocket due to heavy damage. The crew of the downed He 111 aircraft removed the aircraft's radio and used it to help direct further supply runs. ww2dbase [Rzhev-Vyazma Offensive and the Demyansk Pocket | Kholm, Novgorod | CPC]

• HMS Edinburgh departed Scapa Flow, Scotland, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Scapa Flow | Edinburgh | Scapa Flow, Scotland | CPC]

6 Apr 1942 Interactive Map

• Dietrich Bonhoeffer was arrested for being part of an attempt on Hitler's life. ww2dbase [Dietrich Bonhoeffer | TH]
• Axis forces fell back from Wadi Akarit towards Enfidaville, Tunisia as the British Eighth Army began linking up with US II Corps. ww2dbase [Battle of Wadi Akarit | TH]
• British pressure in southeastern Tunisia caused Axis forces to begin falling back from the El Guettar region. ww2dbase [Battle of El Guettar | CPC]
• Captured French torpedo boats Bombarde, La Pomone, and L'Iphigénie, been in Italian service since Dec 1942, were transferred on loan to the German Navy. ww2dbase [CPC]
• USS Helena (St. Louis-class) joined the cruiser group with USS Honolulu, USS Nashville, and USS St. Louis while the cruiser group was on station in the Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Walden Ainsworth | Helena (St. Louis-class) | Honolulu | St. Louis | Nashville | Nicholas | DS]

• Alpino Bagnolini sighted an aircraft in the Atlantic Ocean at 1337 hours; she submerged to avoid detection. At 1541 hours, she sighted a periscope, and the Italian submarine turned away. At 1703 hours, she sighted another aircraft, and again submerged. ww2dbase [Alpino Bagnolini | CPC]

• George Kenney arrived at Brisbane, Australia. ww2dbase [George Kenney | Brisbane, Queensland | CPC]

• Yugure arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Yugure | Truk | CPC]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: British Torpedo Squadrons commenced night flying. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• Naka arrived at Hashirajima, Japan. ww2dbase [Naka | Hashirajima, Yamaguchi | CPC]

• When a company of the British 5th East Yorkshire Regiment had to withdraw temporarily behind the crest of a hill in southern Tunisia, Private Eric Anderson, a stretcher-bearer, went forward alone through heavy fire to rescue the wounded. Three times he brought in wounded comrades, and was rendering first aid to a fourth when he was mortally wounded. For this gallant deed on the field of battle, Private Anderson would be awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross. ww2dbase [AC]

• USS Salt Lake City and USS Bailey arrived at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California. ww2dbase [Mare Island Navy Yard | Bailey | Salt Lake City | Vallejo, California | DS]

• USS Whale arrived at Midway Atoll, ending her third war patrol. ww2dbase [Midway Bases | Whale | Midway | CPC]
• USS Permit departed Midway Atoll, starting her eighth war patrol. ww2dbase [Midway Bases | Permit | Midway | CPC]
• USS Wahoo arrived at Midway Atoll, ending her fourth war patrol. ww2dbase [Midway Bases | Wahoo | Midway | CPC]
• Gato-class submarine USS Silversides departed Johnson Island bound for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ww2dbase [Silversides | Johnson Island | DS]

6 Apr 1943 Interactive Map

• Taiho became the flagship of the Third Fleet. ww2dbase [Taiho | CPC]
• Ryunosuke Kusaka was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet. ww2dbase [Ryunosuke Kusaka | CPC]
• Rear Admiral Sadatoshi Tomioka was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Navy 11th Air Fleet. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Allied leadership in the South Pacific determined that 85% of Vunapope, New Britain had been destroyed, and there was no further need to continue the aerial bombardment campaign against Vunapope. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | CPC]

• USS Cod departed Fremantle, Australia for her third war patrol. ww2dbase [Cod | Fremantle, Western Australia | CPC]
• USS Gunnel arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her fourth war patrol. ww2dbase [Gunnel | Fremantle, Western Australia | CPC]

• Japanese troops attacked the White City site of Operation Thursday in Burma. ww2dbase [Operation Thursday | CPC]
• Indian 26th Division captured Point 551 hill in Burma. ww2dbase [Second Battle of Arakan | Arakan | CPC]
• Troops of Chinese 38th Division advanced to about 10 miles north of Hsamshingyang, Burma, relieving pressure from the rear of 3rd Battalion of US 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional). On the 3rd Battalion's front, it had reached about 500 yards north of Nhpum Ga by the end of the day. ww2dbase [Battle of Myitkyina | Nhpum Ga | CPC]

• Xinjin Airfield in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China became the forward headquarters of US XX Bomber Command. ww2dbase [Xinjin Airfield | Chengdu, Sichuan | CPC]

• SS-Obersturmführer Klaus Barbie raided a children's home in Izieu, France, arresting 7 adults and 44 Jewish children. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Izieu, Rhône-Alpes | CPC]

• Evacuees began to return to their homes in Gibraltar as the first group of 1,367 evacuees arrived from Britain. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Water Supply (water development project) turned over to station. Part of 125th Construction Battalion (125th SeaBees) arrived on board. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• Abdul Hafiz of Indian 9th Jat Infantry Regiment led an attack by two sections of a platoon against a Japanese-held hill near Imphal, India. Despite being injured in the leg by enemy fire, he took out one machine position and led an attack on another; during the latter, he was fatally shot in the chest. He was awarded the Victoria Cross medal posthumously on 27 Jul, which was given to his widow Jugri Begum by Viceroy of India Archibald Wavell in Oct 1944 in Delhi, India. ww2dbase [Imphal, Manipur | CPC]
• After dark, Japanese troops launched an attack at Kohima, India, reaching the buildings at the edge of the village before the attack was halted early in the next day. ww2dbase [Battle of Imphal-Kohima | Kohima, Assam | CPC]

• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) entered Majuro, Marshall Islands for a week of replenishment and recreation. ww2dbase [Yorktown (Essex-class) | Majuro | DS]

• Kamoi took on the remaining fuel cargo from damaged tanker Tarakan Maru, which had just arrived at Singapore for repairs. ww2dbase [Kamoi | Singapore | CPC]

• The United Kingdom introduced the PAYE (pay as you earn) tax system. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Joseph Rochefort was ordered to travel to Washington DC, United States to meet with Ernest King. ww2dbase [Joseph Rochefort | CPC]

6 Apr 1944 Interactive Map

• USS Cassin Young rescued survivors of two sunken US destroyers. ww2dbase [Cassin Young | CPC]
• USS Tirante stopped a Japanese fishing boat, captured the crew of three, and sank the boat by gunfire. ww2dbase [Tirante | CPC]
• USS Caiman arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending second war patrol. ww2dbase [Caiman | CPC]
• Yugoslavian partisans took control of Sarajevo. ww2dbase [TH]
• After six days of artillery and aerial bombardment on Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany, the ground offensive began. 137,000 Soviet troops of the 3rd Byelorussian Front rushed into the city, supported by 530 tanks and 2,400 aircraft. ww2dbase [East Prussian Offensive | TH]
• Operation Kikusui No. 1 was launched off Okinawa, Japan, participated by about 230 Japanese Navy and 125 Japanese Army special attack and escorting aircraft. ww2dbase [Okinawa Campaign | CPC]
• Douglas MacArthur was named the supreme Allied commander in the Pacific. ww2dbase [Douglas MacArthur | CPC]
• USS Rock made a night time surface torpedo attack on a schooner with three torepdoes; all torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Rock | CPC]
• The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Bush was sunk by a Japanese special attack off Okinawa, Japan. ww2dbase [AC]
• USS Wake Island departed Okinawa, Japan. ww2dbase [Wake Island | CPC]
• Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front began attacking the suburbs of Vienna, occupied Austria. ww2dbase [Battle of Vienna | TH]
• Joseph Goebbels announced that a German victory was to come during this month and only Adolf Hitler knew the moment. He obtained this information from astrology. ww2dbase [Joseph Goebbels | CPC]
• USS Hawkbill arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her third war patrol. ww2dbase [Hawkbill | CPC]
• James Johnson was promoted to the rank of group captain and was given command of the No. 125 Wing. ww2dbase [James Johnson | CPC]
• Vasily Chuikov was made a Hero of the Soviet Union for the second time. ww2dbase [Vasily Chuikov | CPC]
• Prisoners of Moringen Concentration Camp who could walk were sent on a death march toward the east; those who remained would be liberated by troops of the Western Allies three days later. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]

• In occupied Czechoslovakia, International Red Cross representatives visited the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Theresienstadt Concentration Camp | Terezín, Cechy | CPC]

• US Lieutenant John G. Winant, son of the US ambassador to Britain, captured after his aircraft was shot down over München (Munich), Germany, was transferred to the Oflag IV-C prisoner of war camp at Colditz Castle in Germany. ww2dbase [Colditz Castle | Colditz, Sachsen | CPC]
• Adolf Hitler read Wilhelm Canaris' diary in which Hitler he learned of Canaris' involvement in anti-Nazi activities. ww2dbase [Wilhelm Canaris | CPC]
• 15,000 prisoners of Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Germany were evacuated by German authorities. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Buchenwald Concentration Camp | Ettersberg, Weimar | CPC]
• Walter Dornberger moved his headquarters from Bad Sachsa to Haus Ingeborg in Oberjoch in the Allgäu mountains in southern Germany. ww2dbase [Walter Dornberger | Oberjoch, München-Oberbayern | CPC]
• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against Leipzig, Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | RAF Thurleigh | Leipzig | DS]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Station commemorated its 3rd anniversary. Bagley outdoor theater commissioned this date. Guests included Admiral Bagley, Gov Stainback of the Territory of Hawaii, Brig General LWT Waller, Jr., USMC, and Commodore BL Austen. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• Allied Operation Grapeshot was ordered to commence in northern Italy. ww2dbase [Operation Grapeshot and Operation Roast | CPC]

• The sick and the older sailors aboard Yamato were disembarked at Mitajiri anchorage in Japan before the battleship departed for Operation Ten-Go. She passed through the Bungo Channel between Shikoku and Kyushu at 1830 hours, sailing west and then turning south at 2100 hours to avoid American submarine USS Threadfin. Meanwhile, USS Threadfin continued to follow Yamato's position though unable to attack. ww2dbase [Yamato | Mitajiri, Yamaguchi | CPC]
• USS Hackleback and USS Threadfin made radar contact with the Japanese force centered around battleship Yamato. Hackleback attempted to close on the force but was driven away by escorting destroyers. Both submarines broadcast a report of the enemy task force. ww2dbase [Threadfin | Hackleback | Bungo Channel, Kyushu | CPC]
• SS Hobbs Victory, struck by two special attack aircraft on the previous day, was destroyed in the East China Sea when the ammunition in her cargo hold exploded amidst firefighting efforts. ww2dbase [Okinawa Campaign | Tokko "Kamikaze" Special Attack Doctrine | Hobbs Victory | Okinawa | CPC]
• USS Silversides experienced radar and radio problems just as submarines USS Hackleback and USS Threadfin started issuing reports of a Japanese task force making a sortie down the Bungo Channel from the Inland Sea. Receiving updates 1 to 4 hours late resulted in Silversides being drawn well out of position. ww2dbase [Silversides | Bungo Channel | DS]

• On the Island of Texel off the Dutch coast, the Georgian troops serving as volunteers with the German army mutinied. Some 246 German troops were killed in their sleep by the Georgians (most of whom had originally been captured on the Eastern Front) and battle broke out which eventually results in about 800 Germans, about 500 Georgian and 117 Texel civilian fatalities. The fighting ended only when the Canadians arrived on 20 May 1945, two weeks after the end of the European war. ww2dbase [Georgian Texel Uprising | Texel, Noord-Holland | AC]

6 Apr 1945 Interactive Map

• At Philadelphia Navy Yard, Commander William Wallace relieved Commander William Lederer as commanding officer of USS Honolulu. ww2dbase [Honolulu | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | DS]

• US President Truman summoned Secretary of Defense George Marshall, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Omar Bradley, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, and Averill Harriman. Marshall and Bradley voice opinions against Douglas MacArthur's strategy for the Korean War despite US Joint Chiefs of Staff's preliminary planning for allowing MacArthur to attack Chinese airfields. ww2dbase [Douglas MacArthur | CPC]

• Wei Lihuang arrived in Beijing, China; he was personally received by Zhou Enlai and Zhu De. ww2dbase [Wei Lihuang | Beijing | CPC]

• USS Wasp arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, United States. ww2dbase [Wasp (Essex-class) | Norfolk, Virginia | CPC]

• Edmund Wooldridge was promoted to the rank of admiral. ww2dbase [Edmund Wooldridge | CPC]

• USS Wasp arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, United States for minor repairs. ww2dbase [Wasp (Essex-class) | Boston, Massachusetts | CPC]

• Pavel Rotmistrov passed away. ww2dbase [Pavel Rotmistrov | CPC]

6 Apr 2009 Interactive Map