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• Minoru Ota was born. ww2dbase [Minoru Ota | CPC]

• Edwin Layton was born in Nauvoo, Illinois, United States. ww2dbase [Edwin Layton | Nauvoo, Illinois | CPC]

7 Apr 1903 Interactive Map

• Toyosaburo Ochiai was relieved as the chief of staff of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea. ww2dbase [CPC]
• General Kikuzuo Otani was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria married Princess Antoinette of Luxembourg. The ceremony was conducted by Pope Pius XII. ww2dbase [AC]

• The construction of cruiser Emden was ordered. ww2dbase [Emden | CPC]

• The Prison and Concentration camp system in Russia was reformed under the "Law on the Corrective Labour Camps". The OGPU camps were now grouped under the Main Administration of Corrective Labour Camps and Labour Settlements (GUITLTP) headed by OGPU official, Lazar Kogan, which was informally shortened to Gulag or Main Administration Camps, by which it has been known ever since. ww2dbase [AC]

• Chinese General Ma Zhanshan declared the Heilungkiang Provincial Government in Japanese-occupied Manchuria in northeastern China. He would soon begin to organize what was to become the Northeast Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army. ww2dbase [Ma Zhanshan | CPC]

• Hitler announced the new "Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service" which, in effect, allowed the National Socialist Party the legal right to dismiss any State employee (often on the vaguest of grounds) and replace them with appointees of their own. Among the first workers fired were Jewish workers, with exceptions made for Jewish WW1 veterans. ww2dbase [AC]
• The Gau organization, the large permanent offices of the Reich representatives, was established in law to centralize the political structure of Germany. Hitler appointed himself as the Reich representative for Prussia. ww2dbase [Adolf Hitler | AC]

• USS Ranger transited the Panama Canal for the first time and entered the Pacific. ww2dbase [Panama Canal | Ranger | Panama Canal | DS]

7 Apr 1935 Interactive Map

• Spain officially signed the Anti-Comintern Pact, joining Germany, Italy, and Japan. ww2dbase [Anti-Comintern Pact | AC]

• Italy invaded Albania. ww2dbase [Invasion of Albania | CPC]

• In the morning, the first German naval forces set sail for Operation Weserbüng. The huge Frorce was split into 10 groups under overall command of Admiral Rolf Carls. In the force were the old battleship Schleswig-Holstein, the heavy cruisers Hipper, Blücher and Lützow, with light cruisers Köln, Königsberg and Karlsruhe. There were also over 20 destroyers, mineseepers and torpedo boats, as well as tenders and transports. Admiral Karl Dönitz made up 9 submarine groups to accompany the surface vessels, 31 submarines in all; the U-boat operations would end as a total failure: despite good conditions the torpedoes showed defects in the depth-keeping mechanisms and the magnetic fuses failed, ending in only 6 Allied sinkings at the cost of 4 submarines. At 1325 hours, Hudson reconnaissance aircraft of No. 220 Squadron RAF spotted a part of German Marine Gruppe 1 and reported the presence of 1 cruiser and 6 destroyers at 1325 hours, sailing in a northward direction; 12 Blenheim and 24 Wellington bombers were dispatched to attack this group but the attack was not successful. The British Admiralty, receiving reports of major German naval movements, incorrectly assumed the Germans were launching a major attack into the Atlantic Ocean. The Home Fleet departed from Scapa Flow at 2115 hours, while the 1st Cruiser Squadron disembarked the troops already on board in order to prepare for a battle on the open seas. Nevertheless, British submarines continued to patrol the European coast for German activity rather than going out to the open seas; HMS Shark and HMS Seawolf departed Harwich naval base to patrol off Dutch coast, while HMS Clyde and HMS Thistle departed Scapa Flow to patrol the coast of Norway. ww2dbase [Invasion of Denmark and Norway | CPC, HM]

• Leonardo da Vinci was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Leonardo da Vinci | CPC]

• US Navy transferred 3 battleships, 1 carrier, 4 light cruisers, 18 destroyers, and other ships from the Pacific Fleet to the Atlantic Fleet. ww2dbase [CPC]
• The British government raised income tax again, by another 1 shilling and 6 pence to 10 shillings in the pound. ww2dbase [AC]
• Yugoslavian troops were forced to withdraw to southern Macedonia when the Germans captured Skopje, exposing their flank. German 2nd Panzer Division had reached Strumica, Yugoslavia by the end of the day, which was only 10 miles from the Greek border, from which point it would be able to bypass the Metaxas Line defenses, where German troops conducted a failed frontal assault on this day. The United Kingdom promised aid to Yugoslavia and broke off relations with Hungary; meanwhile, RAF bombers conducted a raid on Sofia, Bulgaria. ww2dbase [Balkans Campaign | TH]
• A US Navy base began operations in Bermuda, which was leased to the United States for 99 years in exchange for destroyers. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Before dawn, a motor column containing British military governor of Cyrenaica, Libya Lieutenant General Philip Neame and British Lieutenant General Richard O'Connor got lost and became captured by a German patrol between Mechili and Derna. During the day, Axis troops captured Derna, Libya. 50 miles to the south, British, Australian, and Indian troops prepared their defenses at Mechili, which had been surrounded by Axis troops since the prior day. The Axis forces had not yet attacked Mechili due to sandstorms; Rommel ordered that an attack must be launched on the next day. ww2dbase [Siege of Tobruk | Richard O'Connor | CPC]
• 229 RAF bombers conducted a raid on Kiel, Germany. ww2dbase [CPC]
• British armed merchant cruiser HMS Comorin, damaged by a fire on the previous day, was scuttled by the guns of destroyers HMS Broke and HMS Lincoln 450 miles west of Ireland after all survivors were rescued. ww2dbase [CPC]
• German submarine U-124 sank Canadian ship Portadoc with 1 torpedo and 24 rounds from the deck gun 240 miles west of Freetown, Sierra Leone, British West Africa at 1750 hours. The entire crew fo 20 survived in 2 lifeboats. ww2dbase [CPC]
• British cruiser HMS Capetown bombarded Massawa, Eritrea, Italian East Africa. Italian torpedo boat MAS.213 counterattacked and seriously damaged HMS Capetown with a torpedo at 2315 hours, but Capetown was able to escape despite the damage. She would be towed to Bombay, India for repairs. ww2dbase [Invasion of Italian East Africa | CPC]
• The Gloster E.28/39 jet powered prototype piloted by Chief Test Pilot P.E.G.Sayer commenced taxiing trials at Gloster's Hucclecote airfield in Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Meteor | AC]

• Maggiore Baracca departed Bordeaux, France at 1500 hours and arrived at Pauillac, France at 1813 hours. ww2dbase [Maggiore Baracca | Bordeaux, Aquitaine | CPC]

• German bombers sank minesweeping trawler HMT Rochebonne off The Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, killing 11. ww2dbase [Helston, England | CPC]
• Norwegians John Moe and Tor Glad, who had been recruited by the German Abwehr to conduct acts of sabotage in Great Britain, landed at Crovie on Scotland’s Moray Firth. They immediately approached the local authorities and were interrogated by MI5 and MI6. Both men (codenamed Mutt and Jeff) were turned under the MI5 double-cross programme as double agents. They would conduct staged acts of sabotage on worthless targets and fed false information by radio to the Abwehr before the Allied invasion of North Africa, prompting Germany to keep thousands of troops in Scandinavia. ww2dbase [Crovie, Scotland | AC]

• Japanese-Americans began to be relocated from the coastal defense zones in western United States. The American state of Colorado agreed to accept voluntary relocation of enemy aliens; it was the only western state to do so. ww2dbase [Internment of Japanese-Americans and Japanese-Canadians | CPC]
• Protestant Christian theologian K. F. Stellbrink and three Roman Catholic priests were arrested by the German government for anti-Nazi activities. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Tatsuta Maru departed Tarakan, Borneo. ww2dbase [Tatsuta Maru | CPC]
• German submarine U-754 sank Norwegian tanker Kollskegg 370 miles northwest of Bermuda at 0218 hours; 4 were killed, 38 survived. U-552 sank British freighter British Splendour at 0417 hours (12 were killed, 41 survived) and Norwegian whale factory ship Lancing at 1052 hours (1 was killed, 49 survived) off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, United States. ww2dbase [Second Happy Time | CPC]
• In the Soviet Union, a Decree permitted local Authorities to distribute uncultivated land to the populace for food growing allotments. ww2dbase [AC]
• British submarine HMS Turbulent sank Italian freighter Rosa M. with 39 rounds from the deck gun 7 miels south of Petrovac, Yogoslavia at 1730 hours. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Japanese submarine I-6 sank British freighter Bahadur 300 miles west of Bombay, India at 1920 hours. ww2dbase [CPC]
• German submarine U-453 damaged British hospital ship HMHS Somersetshire with three torpedoes 40 miles North of Sid Barrani, Egypt at 1300 hours; 2 were killed, 180 survived. The survivors reboarded the ship later and was able to sail to Alexandria, Egypt for repairs. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Tenryu arrived at Manus, Admiralty Islands. ww2dbase [Tenryu | Manus, Admiralty Islands | CPC]

• Nachi departed Sasebo, Japan. ww2dbase [Nachi | Sasebo, Nagasaki | CPC]

• British tugs HMS Emily and HMS Hellespont were sunk at Malta by Axis air raids. ww2dbase [CPC]

• A Japanese dive bomber destroyed an ammunition truck near American field hospital No. 1 at Bataan, Philippine Islands at 1000 hours. Shortly after, Japanese aircraft returned to attack the hospital, which had large red crosses painted on the roof, killing 89 and wounding 101; a significant portion of the drug supplies were destroyed in this attack. On the front lines, Japanese assaulted positions held by US and Filipino troops of the US II Corps along the San Vicente River, penetrating the line by noon, forcing the Allies to fall back to the line at the Mamala River in the afternoon, which would also abandoned by 2100 hours for the Alangan River further to the south. ww2dbase [Invasion of the Philippine Islands | Bataan | CPC]

• British and American troops linked up on the El Guettar-Gabès road in Tunisia, ending the Battle of El Guettar. ww2dbase [Battle of El Guettar | CPC]
• The British government announced equal war compensation for men and women. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Bolivia declared war on the Axis powers. ww2dbase [CPC]
• German Luftwaffe assigned 148 fighters to Jagdfliegerführer Sizilien. ww2dbase [Conclusion of the Desert War | CPC]
• Orde Wingate and his small group of Chindits began to march for the Irrawaddy River in Burma en route back to India. ww2dbase [Operation Longcloth | CPC]
• The keel of submarine Guitarro was laid down. ww2dbase [Guitarro | CPC]
• Claus von Stauffenberg was seriously injured when his car was strafed by Allied aircraft in North Africa. ww2dbase [Claus von Stauffenberg | CPC]
• Cruisers USS Honolulu, USS Nashville, USS Helena, and USS St. Louis with destroyers USS Nicholas, USS O’Bannon, USS Radford, USS Jenkins, USS Taylor, USS Strong, USS Fletcher, and USS Chevalier departed Tulagi, Solomon Islands bound for Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. ww2dbase [Walden Ainsworth | Helena (St. Louis-class) | Honolulu | St. Louis | Nashville | Nicholas | DS]

• Alpino Bagnolini detected an aircraft with her Metox radar detector in the Atlantic Ocean at 0515 hours; she submerged to avoid detection. ww2dbase [Alpino Bagnolini | CPC]

• Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini began a four-day meeting near Salzburg, Austria trying to keep Italy in the war. This led off a month of meetings with Axis allies for pep talks to keep them active against the Allies. ww2dbase [Salzburg | TH]

• In the morning, at Lakunai field at Rabaul, New Britain, Isoroku Yamamoto personally observed the launch of some of the aircraft that was to form a large aerial offensive (to be consisted of 157 Zero fighters and 67 D3A dive bombers). At Tulagi in the Solomon Islands, this Japanese attack force sank 1 US destroyer, 1 New Zealand corvette, and 1 tanker, while also damaged the oiler that was fueling the New Zealand corvette at the time of the attack. The Japanese aircraft were engaged by US Marine Corps F4F fighters; during the combat, 12 Zero fighters, 9 D3A dive bombers, and 7 F4F fighters were shot down. 3 D3A dive bombers were lost en route back to their bases. Under the cover of the air attack, a reinforcement convoy arrived at Kolombangara, New Georgia. ww2dbase [Solomon Islands Campaign | CPC]
• The 14,500-ton American tanker Kanawha, waiting for an escort in Tulagi harbour in the Solomon Islands, came under Japanese bomb attack. An oil tank under the bridge was hit which caused fires that spread rapidly along the deck. The crew were ordered to abandon the vessel but volunteers returned on board and extinguished the fires amidst exploding ammunition. 19 lives were lost int his incident. The tug Rail towed the Kanawha to the west side of Tulagi where she was beached shortly before midnight. ww2dbase [Tulagi | HM]
• Three Japanese aircraft attacked US destroyer Aaron Ward, tearing holes on the side of the ship and interrupting all electrical power. Having no rudder control, she steamed lazily to port as three more dive bombers attacked, with their near misses further damaging the ship. USS Aaron Ward suffered 20 killed, 59 wounded, and 7 missing. An attempt was made to tow her to beach near Tinete Point of Nggela Pile, but she would ultimately sink at 2135 hours. ww2dbase [Nggela Pile | HM]

• Konstantinos Logothetopoulos stepped down as the Prime Minister of the Hellenic State. ww2dbase [Konstantinos Logothetopoulos | Athens | CPC]

• Destroyer USS Shaw shifted from Berth B-22 to Drydock No. 3 at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Shaw | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]

• Auxiliary Aircraft Carrier USS Bogue departed Argentia, Newfoundland bound for Philadelphia Navy Yard for emergency repairs to her aircraft catapult. ww2dbase [Bogue | Argentia | DS]

• USS Tunny attacked transport Kosei Maru in the Pacific Ocean, hitting her with two torpedoes. An Akatsuki-class destroyer counterattacked with depth charges, causing no damage. ww2dbase [Tunny | CPC]

• USAAF 325th Fighter Group saw its first combat mission as 36 of its P-40 fighters escorted a group of B-25 bombers to attack Mateur in Tunisia; one P-40 fighter was lost during this mission. ww2dbase [Mateur | CPC]

• USS Whale departed Midway Atoll. ww2dbase [Midway Bases | Whale | Midway | CPC]
• USS Wahoo began a period of refitting at Midway Atoll. ww2dbase [Midway Bases | Wahoo | Midway | CPC]

7 Apr 1943 Interactive Map

• The Icelandic airline Lofteide HF, founded in the previous month, inaugurated its initial flight service. ww2dbase [CPC]
• USS Tunny arrived at Milne Bay, New Guinea. ww2dbase [Tunny | CPC]

• The 1st Battalion of US 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional) arrived at Hsamshingyang, Burma at 1700 hours after marching through 30 miles of jungle, which took 5 days. The 800 men were exhausted, and 200 of them were suffering from acute dysentery. Colonel Charles Hunter immediately organized an offensive toward Nhpum Ga for the next day, and Osborne of 1st Battalion committed 254 of his men who were in decent enough of shape to fight. ww2dbase [Battle of Myitkyina | Charles Hunter | Nhpum Ga | CPC]

• 44 Jewish children and their 7 adult caretakers, arrested in a children's home in Izieu, France on the previous day, arrived at Drancy concentration camp. They all would later be deported to Auschwitz in Poland for their execution by gassing. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Drancy Concentration Camp | Paris | CPC]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Five officers and 91 men of D-2, Unit 2, departed. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• No. 112 Squadron RAF, flying Kittyhawk fighters, shot down a German aircraft over Rieti Airfield in Italy; this would be the final Kittyhawk victory in the Mediterranean theater of WW2. ww2dbase [P-40 Warhawk | Rieti, Lazio | CPC]

• Destroyer Yukikaze arrived at Kure, Japan. ww2dbase [Yukikaze | Kure, Hiroshima | CPC]

• Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler escaped from Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in occupied Poland; they would cross the border to Slovakia three days later. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Oswiecim | CPC]

• Allied convoy RA-58 departed the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Murmansk | CPC]
• Nikolai Melnikov, the deputy of Soviet NKVD Directorate for Prisoners of War and Interned Persons (UPVI), committed suicide. He was replaced by Amayak Kobulov. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Bernard Montgomery briefed his generals regarding the invasion of France, predicting the city of Caen would be captured on the first day of the invasion. ww2dbase [Bernard Montgomery | CPC]
• During a dinner with Dwight Eisenhower and other Allied generals in England, United Kingdom, George Patton suggested that divisions used for Operation Overlord should be made over-strength. ww2dbase [George Patton | England | CPC]

• Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Sargent Bay departed Seattle Washington bound for Alameda, California, United States. ww2dbase [Sargent Bay | Seattle, Washington | DS]

7 Apr 1944 Interactive Map

• USS Tirante torpedoed a Japanese cargo freighter, surfaced, and observed two survivors clinging to debris. She was initially credited with the kill, but it failed to be confirmed after studying Japanese records post-war. ww2dbase [Tirante | CPC]
• German Armeegruppe E completed its evacuation of Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. ww2dbase [TH]
• In Germany, US First Army captured Göttingen and US Ninth Army captured Eisenach and Hameln. ww2dbase [TH]
• General Schörner's German Armeegruppe Mitte attacked the Soviet 2nd and 4th Ukrainian Fronts in Czechoslovakia. ww2dbase [TH]
• USS Hancock, USS Maryland, and 4 destroyers were damaged by Japanese special attack aircraft. ww2dbase [Maryland | CPC]
• German jets were deployed to intercept heavy bombers of the Western Allies. ww2dbase [TH]
• USS Charr sank Japanese cruiser Isuzu, which had just been damaged by a torpedo from USS Gabilan, with three hits out of five torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Charr | CPC]
• The US coastal minesweeper YMS-103 was damaged by a mine off Okinawa, Japan. ww2dbase [AC]
• USS Cabrilla fired 3 torpedoes at a Japanese transport off northern Japan; all torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Cabrilla | CPC]
• Hauptmann Oskar Dettke and Oberleutnant Heinrich Südel of the German Kampfgeschwader 55 wing were awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Anglo-Indian troops attacked Yindaw, which was 20 kilometers south of Meiktila, Burma. It was stubbornly defended by 1,000 Japanese troops which repeatedly repulsed assaults over the next few days. William Slim would ultimately order the town bypassed, leaving it for the mop-up phase later. ww2dbase [Battle of Meiktila-Mandalay | Yindaw | CPC]

• Hikosaburo Hata was named the chief of staff of Otozo Yamada (Japanese Kwantung Army in northeastern China). ww2dbase [CPC]

• Heavy cruiser Lützow, destroyer Z43, and other German ships completed the shelling Soviet positions on the coast of the Danzig Bay. ww2dbase [East Pomeranian Offensive | Lützow | Z43 | CPC]

• Tran Trong Kim met with Emperor Bao Dai of the Empire of Vietnam, a Japanese-sponsored puppet state. ww2dbase [Tran Trong Kim | CPC]

• German forces at Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany attempted a counterattack. Although it inflicted heavy casualties on the Soviets, it ultimately failed. ww2dbase [East Prussian Offensive | Königsberg, Ostpreußen | CPC]
• Wilhelm Canaris was sentenced to death by a special SS tribunal. ww2dbase [Wilhelm Canaris | CPC]
• In a last ditch operation by the so-called Sonderkommando Elbe, set up by the fanatical Oberst Otto Köhnke, the pilots of 183 Fw 190 and Bf 109K aircraft flying to the strains of martial music played over the radio were ordered to deliberately ram American B-17 bombers. How many actually did so remained a mystery but 137 of the German aircraft were lost with the loss 70 pilots killed. Only eight US heavy bombers were brought down. ww2dbase [AC]
• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against the airfield at Wesendorf, Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | RAF Thurleigh | Wesendorf | DS]

• Submarine USS Tinosa arrived at Apra Harbor, Guam at the conclusion of her ninth war patrol. Tinosa tied up alongside tender USS Proteus for repairs and refit. ww2dbase [Tinosa | Proteus | Apra Harbor | DS]

• USS Sargent Bay departed Okinawa. ww2dbase [Sargent Bay | Okinawa | CPC]
• 101 American B-29 bombers attacked the Nakajima aircraft factory near Tokyo, Japan; this was the first B-29 mission to be escorted by P-51 fighters from Iwo Jima. ww2dbase [Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities | Tokyo | CPC]
• Kantaro Suzuki was named the 42nd Prime Minister of Japan. ww2dbase [Kantaro Suzuki | CPC]
• When Yamato was discovered was steaming south, Air Group 9 from USS Yorktown (Essex-class) claimed several torpedo hits on Yamato herself just before the battleship exploded and sank. USS Yorktown (Essex-class)?s planes also had at least three 500-pound bombs hit light cruiser Yahagi before that ship also sank. Yorktown then resumed her strikes on Okinawa. ww2dbase [Okinawa Campaign | Yorktown (Essex-class) | Okinawa | DS]
• Korechika Anami was made the Army Minister under Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki. ww2dbase [Korechika Anami | Tokyo | CPC]
• [appx date] The last set of Japanese Fu-Go balloon bombs were launched into the jet-stream. ww2dbase [Japanese Attacks on the Continental United States | Fu-Go | Otsu, Ibaraki | DS]

• Lieutenant General Yoshio Kozuki was named the commanding officer of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea, relieving Seishiro Itagaki. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Kosaku Ariga, commanding officer of battleship Yamato, went down with the ship as the battleship sank. ww2dbase [Okinawa Campaign | Kosaku Ariga | East China Sea | CPC]
• While enroute to attack the US fleets off Okinawa, Japan, battleship Yamato was attacked by US carrier aircraft resulting in her loss, along with several of her escorts. ww2dbase [Okinawa Campaign | Yamato | East China Sea | TH]
• Destroyer Yukikaze rescued survivors of battleship Yamato and destroyer Isokaze; she suffered minor damage from American air attacks during the action (3 were killed, 15 were wounded). ww2dbase [Okinawa Campaign | Yukikaze | East China Sea | CPC]
• USS Gabilan sank the already-damaged Japanese cruiser Isuzu, which she and her wolfpack mates had been chasing since 4 Apr 1945, in the South China Sea, hitting her with 1 of 6 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Gabilan | South China Sea | CPC]

• While at Warm Springs, Georgia, United States, Franklin Roosevelt had a brief telephone conversation with his wife Eleanor Roosevelt, who was at the family estate at Hyde Park, New York, United States. ww2dbase [Franklin Roosevelt | Warm Springs, Georgia | CPC]

7 Apr 1945 Interactive Map

• In Burma elections for constituent assmblies were won, with an overwhelming majority, by the Anti-Fascist Peoples Freedom League (AFPFL) led by Aung San and will now govern when independence is granted on 4 Jan 1948. ww2dbase [Aung San | AC]

• Chen Lifu was named the chief secretary of the Central Political Committee of the Nationalist Party. ww2dbase [Chen Lifu | CPC]

• Graf Zeppelin departed Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland) with loot aboard. ww2dbase [Graf Zeppelin | Szczecin | CPC]

• Chrysler Corporation, after having studied the Japanese Ne-20 turbojet engine which was originally designed for the Kikka jet aircraft, submitted an official report to the US military. ww2dbase [J9N-1/J9Y Kikka | CPC]

• Ma Bufang and Ma Hongkui announced that they would continue to fight against the Communists despite the string of victories that the Communists had been achieving in the Chinese Civil War. ww2dbase [Ma Bufang | CPC]

• USS Saint Paul supported a British Royal Marines raid in Korea. ww2dbase [Saint Paul | CPC]

• Destroyer escort USS Tabberer was placed back in commission at San Diego, California. ww2dbase [Tabberer | San Diego, California | DS]

7 Apr 1951 Interactive Map

• USS Bluefish departed New London, Connecticut, United States. ww2dbase [Bluefish | New London, Connecticut | CPC]

7 Apr 1952 Interactive Map

• Saburo Kurusu passed away. ww2dbase [Saburo Kurusu | CPC]

• The Allied powers and Japan jointly agreed to grant clemency to already-paroled Japanese war criminals. ww2dbase [Tokyo Trial and Other Trials Against Japan | CPC]

• Ivan Petrov passed away. ww2dbase [Ivan Petrov | CPC]

• Douglas MacArthur's body was moved to the 7th Regiment Armory in New York, New York, United States at 0400 hours where he laid in the Clark Room throughout the day. At 0915 hours, his family arrived for a private memorial service; during the service, dignitaries including Mayor of New York City Robert Wagner, Governor of New York Nelson Rockefeller, and former Governor of New York Thomas Dewey waited to see the MacArthur family. Between 1000 and 2315 hours, the armory was opened to the public, and 35,000 people passed by the bier. ww2dbase [Douglas MacArthur | New York | CPC]

7 Apr 1964 Interactive Map

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

• Chen Changjie committed suicide in Shanghai, China. ww2dbase [Chen Changjie | Shanghai | CPC]

• The Museum for Education in Peace was established on the Ikuta campus of Meiji University at the former site of the No. 9 Army Technical Research Laboratory in the Noborito neighborhood of Kawasaki, Japan. ww2dbase [No. 9 Army Technical Research Laboratory | Kawasaki, Kanagawa | CPC]

7 Apr 2010 Interactive Map