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• The United States government lifted rationing for most types of meat. ww2dbase [CPC]
• RAF bombers struck Budapest, Hungary. ww2dbase [TH]
• A new German plan called for the deportation of 3,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz Concentration Camp daily, starting on 15 May 1944. A meeting was held on this date in Vienna between German SS officials, Hungarian officials, and railroad officials to determine the logistics of such an operation. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
• The US Joint Chiefs of Staff decided to preliminarily plan landing operations on Taiwan, Philippine Islands, and mainland China. ww2dbase [Pacific Strategy Conference | CPC]
• James Johnson scored his 28th victory. ww2dbase [James Johnson | CPC]
• USS Parche attacked a Japanese convoy south of Taiwan, sinking Taiyoku Maru and Shoryu Maru and damaging a third, hitting them with 7 of 10 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Parche | CPC]
• USS Nicholas, as an escort for a convoy of transport ships, arrived at Buna, New Guinea. ww2dbase [Nicholas | DS]

• USS Corregidor departed Manus Island, Admiralty Islands. ww2dbase [Corregidor | Manus, Admiralty Islands | CPC]

• Togo departed the Gulf of Finland. ww2dbase [Togo / Coronel | Gulf of Finland | CPC]

• Destroyers USS Waller, USS Saufley, USS Renshaw, USS Pringle, and USS Philip departed Tulagi, Solomon Islands bound for Funafuti. Ellice Islands (now Tuvalu). ww2dbase [Renshaw | Pringle | Waller | Saufley | Philip | Tulagi, Solomon Islands | DS]

• Fleet carrier USS Ranger and escort carrier USS Card arrived at Casablanca in French Morocco. ww2dbase [Ranger | Card | Casablanca | DS]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Blackout discontinued. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• USS Flying Fish departed Majuro, Marshall Islands for her tenth war patrol. ww2dbase [Flying Fish | Majuro | CPC]
• USS Alabama arrived at Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Alabama | Majuro | CPC]
• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) returned to Majuro, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Yorktown (Essex-class) | Majuro | DS]

• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against Berlin, Germany but were recalled due to bad weather. ww2dbase [RAF Thurleigh | Thurleigh, England | DS]

4 May 1944 Interactive Map