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• In India, Mahatma Gandhi was released from imprisonment due to health reasons. ww2dbase [CPC]
• British Army junior officer John Randle took out a Japanese machine gun position in Burma, then purposefully sacrificed himself to take out a bunker with a grenade. He was posthumously awarded a Victoria Cross. ww2dbase [CPC]
• The A7M1 Reppu fighter took its first flight. ww2dbase [A7M Reppu | CPC]
• During the day, 25 Japanese Zero fighters attacked Bishenpur, India. After sundown, Japanese troops attacked Tengnoupal, India. ww2dbase [Battle of Imphal-Kohima | CPC]
• Rudolf Höss received orders to travel to Auschwitz Concentration Camp in occupied Poland. ww2dbase [Rudolf Höss | CPC]

• Khaki Combat Team of US 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional) began hacking through jungle northwest of Ritpong, Burma; they encountered a Japanese field kitchen and captured braised buffalo mean, canned fish, and other foods. Meanwhile, two companies of Chinese 88th Regiment moved into position to attack the village. ww2dbase [Battle of Myitkyina | Ritpong | CPC]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Balikpapan, Dutch Borneo. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Balikpapan, Borneo | CPC]

• The order for the construction of U-3538, U-3539, U-3540, U-3541, and U-3542 was issued. ww2dbase [U-3538 | U-3539 | U-3540 | U-3541 | U-3542 | CPC]

• USS Pompon departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her fifth war patrol. ww2dbase [Pompon | Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of ARGUS-17 departed. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]
• USS Miami arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Miami | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) underway from Majuro, Marshall Islands bound for Oahu, Hawaii. ww2dbase [Yorktown (Essex-class) | Majuro | DS]

• Younger workers in the Łódź ghetto in Poland began a hunger strike in protest of the watery soup that made up the bulk of their daily food intake. ww2dbase [Łódź | CPC]

• Soviet troops bombarded Sevastopol, Russia with Katyusha rocket launchers. ww2dbase [BM-13/8/31 Katyusha | Sevastopol | CPC]

• Allied convoy RA-59 arrived at Loch Ewe, Scotland, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Loch Ewe, Scotland | CPC]

• Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Steamer Bay arrived at San Diego, California. ww2dbase [Steamer Bay | San Diego, California | DS]
• Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Sargent Bay shifted to San Pedro, California. ww2dbase [Sargent Bay | San Pedro, California | DS]

• USS Pollack departed Midway Atoll for her tenth war patrol. ww2dbase [Pollack | Midway Bases | Midway | CPC]

6 May 1944 Interactive Map