[Homer_J_Simpson]

Indies Port Ruined (Currivan) – 2
Stilwell Men Ring Division in Burma – 3
Allied Unity Seen in Blow at Sabang (Shalett) – 3
Combined Operations the Brought Allied Forces behind Enemy Lines in Burma (photos) – 4-5
Fliers Out at Dusk – 6
Russians Believed Massing for Drive (Middleton) – 7
Soldiers in Pacific to Get Furloughs on Percentage Basis (Trumbull) – 7
Latest Casualties Reported by Army – 8-9
War News Summarized – 9
Indecisive War in Orient (Baldwin) – 10
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 11-13

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1944/apr44/21apr44.htm#

US Navy bombards New Guinea
Friday, April 21, 1944 www.onwar.com

In New Guinea... US Task Force 58 (Admiral Mitscher) attacks Wakde Island, Sawar, Sarmi and Hollandia. The American force includes 12 carriers and cruisers. Aircraft strike during the day and cruisers bombard the Japanese positions at night.

Over Occupied Europe... British bombers drop a total of 4500 tons of bombs on four rail junctions: Cologne, La Chappelle (Paris), Lens and Ottignies (Brussels).

In Liberated Italy... Marshal Badoglio forms a coalition government.

[BroJoeK]

headline: "Latest Casualties Reported by Army – 8-9"

"Casualties of the American armed forces, on the basis of latest available reports, total 189,309, including 43,808 dead, 70,948 wounded; 41,330 missing and 33,223 prisoners of war..."

44,000 dead after 28 months of war averages about 1,600 killed per month.
In the next 16 months -- April 1944 to August 1945, another 373,000 died = over 23,000 per month.
The war's heavy lifting has just gotten started...