[Homer_J_Simpson]

Foe Flees to Fort – 2-3
Gen. Vatutin Dies, Liberator of Kiev – 3
War News Summarized – 3
Poet-Partisan from Vilna Ghetto Says Nazis Slew 77,000 of 80,000 (Parker) – 4
Kuban Cossacks (photo) – 4
Plane Base Struck – 5
Turkey Promises Full Material Aid – 5
Australians Take Madang Outpost – 6
Capital to Speed War-News Flow – 6
Tito Besieges Nazis in Bosnian Fortress; Foe is Trapped as Partisans Capture Cazin – 6
Group to Consider Army, Navy Merger – 6
Allied Base in India is Isolated; Foe is at Last Trail to Imphal – 7
A Tribute to the Men Who Died in the Attack on Palau (photo) – 8
Latest Casualties Reported by Army – 10
Texts of Day’s War Communiques – 11-12

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1944/apr44/15apr44.htm#

Soviets capture Tarnopol
Saturday, April 15, 1944 www.onwar.com

On the Eastern Front... Soviet forces of the 1st Ukrainian Front capture Tarnopol after several weeks of fighting. The German commander, General von Neindorff, is killed in the fighting and only a part of the garrison escapes to reach the German lines.

Over Romania... The US 15th Air Force sends 500 sorties to Bucharest and Ploesti.

[BroJoeK]

Headlines: "Foe Flees to Fort – 2-3
Gen. Vatutin Dies, Liberator of Kiev – 3"

Let me put it this way: Crimea and Ukraine are not usually the subjects of world news headlines.
Indeed, we might guess it could be another 70 years before we see them here again...