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• Fleet carrier USS Ranger and escort carrier USS Card departed Casablanca in French Morocco bound for New York. ww2dbase [Ranger | Card | Casablanca | DS]

• 1,500 bombers of the US 8th Air Force attacked Berlin, Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Berlin | TH]

• USS Guitarro departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Guitarro | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Composite Squadron 28 (VC-28) arrived on board. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• During the day, Anglo-Indian troops attacked Jail Hill near Kohima, India, which was repelled by Japanese troops and suffered heavy losses. To the south, the British offensive from Imphal, India into Burma was called off after lack of success. After sundown, Japanese troops attacked Tengnoupal, India and overran some Allied defensive positions. ww2dbase [Battle of Imphal-Kohima | Kohima, Assam | CPC]

• USS Permit began lifeguard duty in the Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Permit | CPC]

• Franklin Roosevelt arrived in Washington DC, United States. ww2dbase [Franklin Roosevelt | Washington | CPC]

7 May 1944 Interactive Map