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Allies bomb Bucharest
Sunday, May 7, 1944 www.onwar.com
Over Romania... The US 15th Air Force and British Bomber Command attack railway yards in Bucharest during the day and night, leaving the city in flames.
Over Germany... The US 8th Air Force conducts a massive raid on Berlin with 1500 aircraft.
Over Occupied France... The US 9th Air Force attacks the railway yards at Mezieres-Charleville with Marauders and P-38 Lightnings.
In the Bismark Archipelago... Elements of the US 46th Division occupy Cape Hopkins Airfield. There is no Japanese resistance encountered.
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May 7th, 1944 (SUNDAY)
GERMANY: Berlin: The US 8th Army Air Force, attacks the city for the second time in three days.
The USAAF’s Eighth Air Force flies two missions during the day.
- Mission 342: In the morning, 922 bombers and 764 fighters are dispatched to bomb targets in Germany; 9 bombers and 4 fighters are lost; 1 Luftwaffe aircraft is claimed shot down:
1. 600 B-17s are dispatched on a PFF attack on Berlin; 514 bomb the primary and 39 hit targets of opportunity; 8 B-17s are lost, 2 are damaged beyond repair and 265 damaged.
2. Of 322 B-24s dispatched, 147 bomb Munster and 165 bomb Osnabruck; 1 B-24 is lost, 1 damaged beyond repair and 22 damaged.
Escort is provided by 153 P-38s, 317 P-47s and 284 P-51s; 2 P-38s, 1 P-47 and 1 P-51 are lost, 1 P-51 is damaged beyond repair and 5 P-38s, 3 P-47s and 1 P-51 damaged.
In the afternoon, 29 of 67 B-24s bomb the marshalling yard at Liege, Belgium without loss; escort is provided by 24 P-47s and 51 P-51s without loss.
- Mission 343: 3 of 4 B-17s drop 1.6 million leaflets on 16 towns in central France without loss.
- 14 B-24s are dispatched on CARPETBAGGER missions during the night without loss.
INDIA: The Allies call off their attack in the Imphal area, having achieved little.
CHINA: Japanese forces link up at Suiping, on the Peking to Hankow railway.
NEW BRITAIN: US 46th Division takes Cape Hopkins Airfield.
CANADA: Frigates HMCS Magog and Stettler commissioned.
U.S.A.: The first Beechcraft A38 Grizzly, makes its maiden flight.
Corvette HMCS Sackville completed forecastle extension refit Galveston, Texas.
Submarines USS Blueback and Sea Owl launched.
ATLANTIC OCEAN: Frigate HMCS Valleyfield takes a hit from a Zaunkönig fired by U-548 (Kapitanleutnant Eberhard Zimmermann) and sinks 40 miles East of Cape Race at 46 03N 52 24W. Valleyfield was part of escort group C1, escorting convoy ON-234 from Liverpool to New York City. Valleyfield sank so quickly that other ships in the group did not immediately realize what had happened. A combination of the ship’s quick sinking, the delay in rescue efforts, and the cold water resulted in only 38 survivors; with 121 casualties. The survivors are rescued by HMCS Giffard. (Alex Gordon and Dave Shirlaw)(108)