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April 26th, 1943 (MONDAY)
GERMANY: Tonight the RAF bomb Duisburg with 561 aircraft.
POLAND: Warsaw: At the close of a busy day, SS General Stroop reported by teletype to SS headquarters from the Warsaw Ghetto: “A further 1,330 Jews pulled out of dug-outs and immediately destroyed; 362 Jews killed in battle.” The day before, reporting the capture of 27,464 Jews, he told Himmler that he was ordering a train to take them to Treblinka extermination camp.
Stroop says that he has lost only 16 men in the battles, though the Jews put the figure at several hundred. He claims that the ghetto has been cleared, but there are still Jews hiding in the sewers, while others have escaped to seek refuge in the Christian sector of the city.
U.S.S.R.: Russia breaks diplomatic relations with the Exiled Polish Government over allegations concerning the Katyn Massacre.
TUNISIA: Longstop Hill, the gateway to the Tunisian plain, falls to the British V Corps.
INDIAN OCEAN: Off Mauritius: Subhas Chandra Bose, the leader of the Indian National Army, is transferred from a U-boat to a Japanese submarine en route from Berlin to Penang.
AUSTRALIA: 79 Squadron RAAF is formed on Spitfire Vcs at Laverton under Sqn Ldr AC Rawlinson. (Daniel Ross)
PACIFIC OCEAN: Japanese submarine I-23 is sunk by the USS Tautog (SS-199) south of Hawaii. (Mike Yared)(144&145)
U.S.A.: Japanese held harbour at Attu in the Aleutian Islands is bombed by a US naval squadron under the command of Admiral McMorris.
This was Task Group 16.6 consisting of:
Light cruisers USS Richmond (CL-9), USS Detroit (CL-8) and USS Santa Fe
(CL-60), and
Destroyers USS Caldwell (DD-605), USS Bancroft (DD-598), USS Coghlan
(DD-606), USS Frazier (DD-607), USS Gansevoort (DD-608) and USS Edwards
(DD-619).
Kiska Island is bombed.
The TG bombarded Adak Island from 0815 to 0840 hours local; the Japanese did not return fire.
Royal Canadian Air Force
P-40K-1-CUs of No. 111 (Fighter) Squadron based on Kodiak Island fly 24 sorties while five USAAF B-25s abort due to the usual Aleutian Island weather. (Jack McKillop)
Operation Cartwheel is agreed to. This has US Admiral Halsey’s forces move through New Georgia and Bougainville in the Solomon Islands. US General Douglas MacArthur will move NW along the coast of New Guinea. Then they will both attack Rabaul, New Britain and Kavieng, New Ireland.
Bump.