30 Apr 1943




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- The Bermuda Conference ended without any concrete conclusion. ww2dbase [Bermuda Conference | CPC]
- USS Scorpion sank the Japanese patrol ship Ebisu Maru No. 5 with a torpedo; during the surface action, Lieutenant Commander R. M. Raymond was killed, the submarine's first casualty. As a Japanese aircraft responded with depth charges, Scorpion dove and survived the attack. ww2dbase [Scorpion | CPC]
- The body of Glyndwr Michael was put into the sea from British submarine HMS Seraph off Huelva, Spain; posed as Major William Martin, the body carried false documents intended to mislead the Germans. ww2dbase [Operation Mincemeat | CPC]
- The keel of trawler Gulland was laid down. ww2dbase [Gulland | CPC]
- Auxiliary Aircraft Carrier USS Bogue and her escorts detached from Convoy HX-235 in the eastern Atlantic and set course toward Belfast, Northern Ireland. ww2dbase [Bogue | DS]
- Leonardo da Vinci transmitted her final signal in the Atlantic Ocean about 600 miles northwest of Cape Town, South Africa. ww2dbase [Leonardo da Vinci | CPC]
- In Australian Papua, US 90th Squadron moved from Port Moresby to Dobodura Airfield to the northeast. ww2dbase [Dobodura Airfield | Dobodura | CPC]
- The construction for the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in northwestern Germany began. ww2dbase [Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp | Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Bergen, Ost-Hannover | CPC]
- Katori exited the drydocks at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal in Japan after completing a scheduled refit. ww2dbase [Katori | Yokosuka Naval Arsenal | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]




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