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Nazi Plants Ripped (Middleton) – 2
Eisenhower ‘Briefs’ Pilots for Big Job – 2-3
Gentile is Honored as Top U.S. Air Ace – 3
Commander in Chief Decorating Our Aces (photo) – 3
Big Junction Taken (Lawrence) – 4-5
Britain’s Newest Defensive Weapon (photo) – 5
War News Summarized – 5
Japanese Encircling Kohima; Press North of Indian Town – 6-7
Knox is Confident of Burma Victory – 7
Sea-Air Blow Rips New Guinea Base – 7
Japanese Happy in Pacific Prison – 8
How the Pacific Picture Has Changed in Two Years (map) – 8
Our Men Trying Out Their Invasion Weapons in England (photos) – 9
Latest War Casualties – 10
Air Power and the War (De Seversky) – 11
Confusion over Burma Warfare (Baldwin) – 12
Partisans Reveal Gains by Germans – 12
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 13-15

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1944/apr44/12apr44.htm#

Germans evacuating Crimea
Wednesday, April 12, 1944 www.onwar.com

On the Eastern Front... Troops of the 3rd Ukrainian Front (Malinovski) occupy Tiraspol, 97 km northwest of Odessa. The Germans begin a limited evacuation of the Crimea. Over the next four days about 67,000 Germans and Romanians will be safely removed despite Soviet attempts to attack the evacuating troops by air and sea.

In Liberated Italy... King Victor Emmanuel announces his plans to retire from office once the Allies enter Rome and to appoint Crown Prince Umberto of Piedmont “Lieutenant of the Realm.”