[Homer_J_Simpson]

Three Islands Hit (Horne) – 2-3
U.S., British Submarines Sink 4 Warships, 13 Other Vessels – 3-4
Chindits in Burma Smash Foe Again (Durdin) – 4
20 Enemy Barges Hit at New Guinea – 5
War News Summarized – 6
This ‘Stage Door Canteen’ Does Not Entertain (photo) – 6
Pacific Fronts: They Are the Scenes of Action on the Land, Sea and in the Air (photos) – 7-8
Ex-Agent of Japan Goes on Trial Here – 9
Daily Here Scores Italian Relief Bar – 9
Knox’s Peace Patrol Plan (Krock) – 9
Where Will We Strike the Enemy? (Baldwin) – 10
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 11-13
Court Rules Jitterbug is All Word Implies, Jitter for ‘Nervous’ and Bug for ‘Crazy’ – 13

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1944/may44/03may44.htm#

Toyoda commands Combined Fleet
Wednesday, May 3, 1944 www.onwar.com

Admiral Toyoda [photo at link]

In Tokyo... Japanese Admiral Toyoda is designated Commander in Chief of the Combined Fleet. He replaces Admiral Koga who was killed on March 31st.

In Burma... The British 14th Army captures heights above Maungdaw-Buthidaung road in the Arakan.

Over Nazi Europe... During the night, RAF bombers target an army depot at Mailly, near Rheims (Germany), aircraft stores at Montdidier (France), an ammunition dumps at Chateaudun (France) and Ludwigshafen (Germany). A total of 49 aircraft are lost.

In the United States... The production of synthetic quinine (anti-malarial) by young Harvard scientists Woodward and Doering is announced in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

In Occupied France... French resistance members burn 100,000 liters of acetone in the Lambiotte plant, Premery.

[henkster]

Reading Baldwin’s column today about D-Day, I wonder how much he knows, how much he’s guessed, and how much he doesn’t know.

I assume his columns have to pass muster from the military censor, who himself may or may not know much about D-Day. But considering how astute Baldwin has been, and based on the feedback he gets from his sources and the censors, I’ll bet he’s figured out generally when and where D-Day will come.