13 Apr 1944
- British Chindit units attacked the village of Sepein near Mawlu in Burma. ww2dbase [Operation Thursday | CPC]
- Patrol Boat No. 102 and Auxiliary Minesweeper No. 106 departed Balikpapan, Dutch East Indies at 0900 hours to escort the convoy consisted of Jambi Maru and Bugen Maru. ww2dbase [Stewart | CPC]
- Drancy Concentration Camp in France dispatched its 71st convoy with 1,500 Jews for Auschwitz Concentration Camp. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Drancy Concentration Camp | Paris | CPC]
- Robert Johnson shot down two German Fw 190 aircraft over Kaiserslautern, Germany. ww2dbase [Robert Johnson | Kaiserslautern | CPC]
- Martial law was lifted in the US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Italian motor torpedo boats claimed the sinking of an Allied corvette off Anzio, Italy; this sinking was not confirmed. ww2dbase [Battle of Anzio | Anzio, Lazio | CPC]
- USS Alabama departed Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Alabama | Majuro | CPC]
- USS Yorktown (Essex-class) departed Majuro, Marshall Islands for the northern coast of New Guinea. ww2dbase [Yorktown (Essex-class) | Majuro | DS]
- USS Yorktown (Essex-class) departed Majuro, Marshall Islands for the northern coast of New Guinea. ww2dbase [Yorktown (Essex-class) | Majuro | DS]
- USS Harder was spotted by a Japanese aircraft north of the western Caroline Islands, and destroyer Ikazuchi sortied to attack. Harder sank Ikazuchi in return, hitting her with 2 of 4 torpedoes. ww2dbase [Harder | CPC]
- Red Army units captured Eupatoria (Yevpatoriya), Feodosiya, and Simferol in Russia. Nearby, at Staryi Krym, German troops killed 589 people, about 200 of them children. ww2dbase [Krym | TH]
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