8 May 1944




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- Eisenhower set the date for the cross-Channel invasion at 5 Jun 1944. ww2dbase [Normandy Campaign, Phase 1 | CPC]
- USS Rock arrived at Majuro, Marshall Islands, ending her second war patrol. ww2dbase [Rock | CPC]
- USAAF fighter ace Robert Johnson scored his 27th victory, exceeding the 26 victories achieved by Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, making him the second-highest scoring American fighter pilot in Europe. ww2dbase [AC]
- Brigadier William Lentaigne, commander of the Chindit, flew to the front lines in Burma to meet with Michael Calvert, repeating the order to abandon the Broadway and White City sites of Operation Thursday in order to build a new forward base, Blackpool. ww2dbase [Operation Thursday | CPC]
- Robert Johnson flew his final mission, shooting down a Bf 109G aircraft and a Fw 190 aircraft over Celle, Germany. ww2dbase [Robert Johnson | Celle | CPC]
- Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Two officers and 97 men of ARGUS-8 arrived on board. Two officers and 91 men of ARGUS-7 arrived on board. Parts of Air Group 11 arrived on board. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]
- Nachi refueled from oiler Teiyo Maru in Kawauchi Bay, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. ww2dbase [Nachi | Kawauchi Bay, Aomori | CPC]
- USS Hoe attacked a Japanese convoy in the South China Sea, damaging army tanker Akane Maru and freighter Sado with 2 of 6 torpedoes fired in the South China Sea west of Luzon Strait. ww2dbase [Hoe | South China Sea | CPC]
- Rudolf Höss returned to Auschwitz Concentration Camp to supervise Aktion Höss, the extermination of 430,000 Hugarian Jews. ww2dbase [Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Rudolf Höss | Oswiecim | CPC]
- USS Ticonderoga was commissioned at the Norfolk Navy Yard in Portsmouth, Virginia, United States with Dixie Kiefer in command. ww2dbase [Ticonderoga | Norfolk Navy Yard | Portsmouth, Virginia | DS]




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