Nimitz Rips Truk (Trumbull) – 2-3
Navy Graduates 47 at Columbia – 3
Our Pacific Drive May By-Pass Truk; MacArthur Fliers Can Neutralize Base (Kluckhohn) – 3
Nazi Railroad Cut (Parker) – 4-5
2,240 Tons Batter Nuremberg Plants (Middleton) – 5
Sofia Blows Tied to Russian Drive – 6
Germans Extend Lines in Cassino (Bracker) – 6
Enemy Capitals Feel the Effects of Allied Air Might (photos) – 7-8
War News Summarized – 8
British Fall back to New India Line – 9
‘Raider’ Wingate is Killed in Crash; He Trained Units for Burma Attack (Currivan, Charles J. Rolo, first-time contributor) – 10
Chinese Sees End of Long Blockade (by Brooks Atkinson) – 11
Latest Casualties in Army and Navy – 13-14
Polish Guerrillas Defeat Nazi Force – 14
Transport Plane Downed in Error – 14
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 15-17
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1944/apr44/01apr44.htm#
Americans strike Woleai
Saturday, April 1, 1944 www.onwar.com
Japanese aircraft explodes under fire [photo at link]
In the Caroline Islands... US aircraft from Task Force 58 (Admiral Spruance) attack Woleai Island. In three days of attacks about 130,000 tons of Japanese shipping has been sunk as well as 7 small warships. American forces have lost 26 planes and claim 150 Japanese airplanes shot down.
On the Eastern Front... Considerable German forces are surrounded near Skala between the advancing Soviet 1st and 2nd Ukrainian Fronts. The 1st Ukrainian Front reaches the Jablonica Pass.
In the Admiralty Islands... US forces occupy Ndrilo and Koniniat.
He wasn't supposed to fly that day ... but he was nuts. He's remembered, by those who pay attention, as one of the great British supporters of what would become the State of Israel.