World War II Database

• Home
• » Events
• » WW2 Timeline
• » 26 Apr 1943

• RAF bombers conducted a raid against Duisburg, Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | CPC]

• Repair ship Akashi completed the repair work for transport Noshiro Maru at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Akashi | Truk | CPC]

• The No. 5 Column of the Chindits arrived in Imphal, India. Only 95 men of the original force of 318 returned. ww2dbase [Operation Longcloth | Imphal, Manipur | CPC]

• Shokaku arrived at Kure, Japan. ww2dbase [Shokaku | Kure, Hiroshima | CPC]
• USS Wahoo reconnoitered Matsuwa (now Matua), Kurile Islands, taking photographs of the Japanese airfield and other facilities. ww2dbase [Wahoo | Matsuwa, Hokkaido | CPC]

• Jürgen Stroop reported that, in the effort to liquidate the Warsaw ghetto in Poland, 1,330 Jews had been pulled out of their strongholds and killed, 662 were killed in combat, and 30 were captured and sent to concentration camps. ww2dbase [Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | Jürgen Stroop | Warsaw | CPC]

• USS S-43 arrived at San Diego, California, United States. ww2dbase [S-43 | San Diego, California | CPC]

26 Apr 1943 Interactive Map