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• Cruiser Köln began a three-month refit. ww2dbase [Köln | CPC]
• Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, who had escaped from Auschwitz Concentration Camp three days prior, arrived in Slovakia. They would later revealing information about the camp to outside world via the Papal Nuncio in Slovakia. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
• Soviet troops entered Odessa, Ukraine. ww2dbase [TH]
• Aleksandr Vasilevsky was awarded the Order of Victory for the first time. ww2dbase [Aleksandr Vasilevsky | CPC]

• Rockets and aerial depth charges from USS Guadalcanal's anti-submarine hunter-killer group TBM Avenger aircraft sank German Type IXC submarine U-68 650 miles off Casablanca. There was one survivor. ww2dbase [Conclusion of the Battle of the Atlantic | DS]

• 672nd Bomb Squadron and 675th Bomb Squadron (both flying A-20 aircraft) of USAAF 417th Bomb Group were transferred from Dobodura Airfield to Saidor Airfield, Australian Papua. ww2dbase [Saidor Airfield | CPC]

• USS Pompon arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her fourth war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Pompon | CPC]

• The keel of landing ship No. 133 was laid down at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal in Sasebo, Japan. ww2dbase [Sasebo Naval Arsenal | No. 101/103-class | CPC]
• The keel of landing ship No. 134 was laid down by Kawanami Kogyo. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]

• German Großdeutschland Division counterattacked westward from Podu Iloaiei toward Târgu Frumos, Romania. To the south of Târgu Frumos, Romanian 1st Guard Division and Romanian 7th Infantry Division attacked in concert. Soviet troops withdrew from Târgu Frumos by 2200 hours. ww2dbase [Jassy-Kishinev Offensive and Romania's Surrender | CPC]

• Georgy Zhukov was awarded the Order of Victory for the first time; this was the very first Order of Victory given out by the Soviet Union. ww2dbase [Georgy Zhukov | CPC]

• The US Joint Chiefs of Staff formally approved Operation Matterhorn, the name allocated to the B-29 bomber offensive against Japanese cities. ww2dbase [Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities | AC]

10 Apr 1944 Interactive Map