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• Admiral Mineichi Koga arrived aboard Yamato for an inspection tour; he arrived to become the new Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet, but that fact would be kept secret until the news of Yamamoto's death was to be made public next month. ww2dbase [Yamato | CPC]
• Commanding officer of the Chinese 5th Army defected to the Japanese. ww2dbase [CPC]
• USS Snook sank a Japanese or Chinese sampan with her deck gun off China. ww2dbase [Snook | CPC]
• Commander Shinichirou Maeda was made the commanding officer of Tanikaze. ww2dbase [Tanikaze | CPC]
• Frederick Aikman shot down a German Bf 109G aircraft. ww2dbase [Frederick Aikman | CPC]

• USS Grayback departed Brisbane, Australia for her seventh war patrol. ww2dbase [Grayback | Brisbane, Queensland | CPC]

• US Navy squadrons VF-26, VF-27, and VF-28, all equipped with F4F fighters, were transferred out of Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Henderson Field | Lunga Point, Guadalcanal | CPC]

• Repair ship Akashi began repairing cruiser Aoba at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Akashi | Truk | CPC]

• Naka departed Yokosuka, Japan. ww2dbase [Naka | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]

• Jürgen Stroop reported that 27,464 Jews had been captured in the Jewish ghetto of Warsaw, Poland. ww2dbase [Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | Jürgen Stroop | Warsaw | CPC]

• USS Wahoo declared her readiness for a war patrol while at Midway Atoll. ww2dbase [Midway Bases | Wahoo | Midway | CPC]
• USS Wahoo departed Midway Atoll for her fifth war patrol. ww2dbase [Midway Bases | Wahoo | Midway | CPC]

25 Apr 1943 Interactive Map