The Waffen-SS committed the Ascq massacre of 86 men in Ascq, France.

The British government banned visitors from going within ten miles of the coast between Land's End and the Wash.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 430+ aircraft attack on Ludwigshafen, Germany. Target the large chemical in the town

The most significant bombing of Switzerland during World War II occurred when about 50 B-24s misidentified Schaffhausen as their target of Ludwigshafen and dropped bombs that resulted in 40 casualties.

An uprising began in El Salvador against the rule of Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, but it was put down after four hours. 53 were killed and 134 injured.

The Eastern Front: Soviet forces crossed the Prut and entered Romania.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 530+ aircraft attack on Steyr, Germany (Austria). Target was the ball-bearing & aircraft factories in the town

The Royal Navy carried out Operation Tungsten, an attack on the German battleship Tirpitz anchored in northern Norway. Fifteen bombs hit the battleship but the damage inflicted was not sufficient to sink or disable the target.

Damaged by bombs & near misses by Fairey Barracuda aircraft from British warships Furious & Victorious, in Kafjord, Norway, 122 dead, 316 injured 03/04/1944

The Eastern Front: German forces counterattack captures Kovel.

The Burma Campaign: The Battle of Kohima began around the town of Kohima in British India.

British de Havilland Mosquito surveillance aircraft of 60 Squadron SAAF photographed Auschwitz concentration camp.

Allied Bomber Offensive: The Allied Forces from the Mediterranean bombed objectives in Bucharest. 49 Axis fighters were shot down; while 12 Allied planes were lost.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 450+ aircraft attack on Budapest, Hungary

Charlie Chaplin was acquitted by a federal court in Los Angeles of violating the Mann Act. the act made it a felony to engage in interstate or foreign commerce transport of "any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose".

World Bantamweight Boxing Title Manuel Ortiz (USA) beat Tony Olivera (USA) Pts 15, Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles.

The Pacific Campaign: American forces take Utirik Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

The Eastern Front: Soviet forces cut the rail link from Odessa at Rozdilna.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 140+ aircraft attack on aircraft factory in Toulouse, France. Factory severely damaged

Hungarian authorities ordered all Jews to wear the yellow star.

The Eastern Front: German forces in the Kamenets-Podolsky pocket complete their fighting withdrawal back to the German lines.

The Eastern Front: The narrow land bridge to the Crimean peninsula, held by the German forces, comes under attack from Soviet forces.

The Eastern Front: German forces break out of a Soviet encirclement near Buchach.

The Burma Campaign: British forces encircled by the Japanese near Jotsama, Burma.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 400+ aircraft attack on Treviso, Mestre, Bologna & Ferrara, Italy

German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler suspended all laws in Berlin and made Joseph Goebbels the sole administrator of the city.

The Eastern Front: Soviet forces began the First Jassy–Kishinev Offensive, a coordinated invasion of Romania.

The Burma Campaign: The Battle of the Tennis Court begans as part of the Battle of Kohima.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 630+ aircraft attack on Brunswick, Germany

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 190+ aircraft attack on Hasselt, Belgium

Sunk by rockets & strafing from Avenger & Wildcat aircraft from American warship Guadalcanal & depth charges from American warships Pilsbury, Chatelain, Flaherty & Pope, boat had been forced to the surface before sinking, 16 dead, 44 survivors captured, NW of Madeira, 34.35N 19.18W 09/04/1944. Members of the crew were interrogated in American custody. Captured Germans were interrogated by Americans at PO Box 1142 facility at Fort Hood, Virginia. Captain shot dead escaping

Charles de Gaulle became Commander-in-Chief of the Free French forces, ending a power struggle with Henri Giraud since the two men became co-presidents of the French Committee of National Liberation.

The Eastern Front: The First Battle of Târgu Frumos began on the Eastern Front.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 240+ aircraft attack on Lille-Delivrance goods railway sidings Lille, France. Much damaged to railway infrustructure

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 230+ aircraft attack on railway infrustructure Villeneuve-St-George, near Paris, France. Serious damage caused

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 190+ aircraft attack on Tutow, Germany. Target was the aircraft factory

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 100+ aircraft attack on Poznan, Poland. Target was the Focke-Wulf plant

Football International:Croatia 7-3 Slovakia, Stadion Concordije, Zagreb

The Burma Campaign: British General William Slim orders a new offensive in Burma, calling for a break through to Kohima while the Imphal Garrison would make sorties into Japanese-held territory around them.

The Eastern Front: During the Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive, the Soviet forces capture Odessa.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 180+ aircraft attack on railway infrustructure Tours, France. Railway yards damaged

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 150+ aircraft attack on railway infrustructure Tergnier, France. Serious damage to railway yards

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 140+ aircraft attack on railway infrustructure Laon, France. Failed attack on railway yards

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 130+ aircraft attack on railway infrustructure Aulnoye, France. Railway yards damaged

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 120+ aircraft attack on railway infrustructure Ghent, Belgium. Serious damage to the Merelbeke-Melle railway yards

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 300+ aircraft attack on Le Harve, France

Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Crossbow, attack on V-Weapon sites: Heavy day-time American air raid, 250+ aircraft attack on various V-Weapon sites in Belgium & France

The Eastern Front: Soviet forces take Dzhankoy and Kerch in the Crimea.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 340+ aircraft attack on Aachen, Germany. City centre badly damaged

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 800+ aircraft attack on aircraft factories across northern Germany

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 800+ aircraft attack on Charleroi/Montignies, Belgium

The Eastern Front: The First Battle of Târgu Frumos ends in German & Romanian victory

The Eastern Front: German forces began withdrawing from the Crimea.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Crossbow, attack on V-Weapon sites: Heavy day-time American air raid, 230+ aircraft attack on variousV-weapon sites at Dunkirk, Courtrai/Wevelghem, Coxyde/Furnes, De Pannes-Bains, Saint Ghislain, Ostend, and pints along the France coast

Allied Bomber Offensive: Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) formally assumes direction of air operations out of United Kingdom at midnight.

The Eastern Front: Soviets forces take Simferopol.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 150+ aircraft attack on Schweinfurt, Germany.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 230+ aircraft attack on Augsburg, Germany

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 530+ aircraft attack on Budapest, Hungary

Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Crossbow, attack on V-Weapon sites: Heavy day-time American air raid, 120+ aircraft attack on various V-Weapon sites in Belgium & France

The Montreal Canadiens defeat the Chicago Black Hawks 5-4 in overtime to win the Stanley Cup in a four-game sweep.

The Burma Campaign: British forces break the Japanese roadblock to the west of Kohima, releave the encircled British forces

The Burma Campaign: Indian nationalist forces allied to the Japaneses led by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, raise flag of Indian liberation at Moriang, India

The Bombay Explosion occurred in the Victoria Dock of Bombay when the British freighter Fort Stikine caught fire and was destroyed in two giant blasts that killed about 800 people.

The Eastern Front: Soviet forces take Tarnopol.

The Western Front: Operation Guidance: British submarine X24 attack a floating dock at Bergen in occupied Norway. The mission did not quite come off as planned when the charges were placed on a large merchant vessel instead of the dock; the ship was sunk but the dock only took minor damage. The operation was repeated on September 11 and this time the dock was sunk.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 450+ aircraft attack on Bucharest, Romania

Depth charged & forced to the surface, where she was shelled & sunk by American warships Gandy, Joyce & Peterson, in the North Atlantic, S of Nantucket Island, 44 dead, 12 survivors 40.09N 69.44W 16/04/1944

The Eastern Front: Soviet forces cleared out the last pockets of German resistance at Yalta.

Allied Bomber Offensive: British air raid on Romania for the first time, from bases in Italy.

The Pacific Campaign:The Japanese Take Ichi convoy left Shanghai carrying two infantry divisions to reinforce Japanese positions in the Philippines and western New Guinea.

The Eastern Front: The Uman–Botoșani Offensive ended in Soviet victory.

The Pacific Campaign: The Battle of Central Henan began between Chinese and Japanese forces in China.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 470+ aircraft attack on Belgrade, Serbia

The Eastern Front: Soviet forces capture Balaklava

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 270+ aircraft attack on railway infrustructure Rouen, France. Concentrated attack on railway yards causeing serious damage

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 200+ aircraft attack on railway infrustructure Juvisy, France. Successful attack serious damage

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 180+ aircraft attack on railway infrustructure Noisy-le-Sec, Paris, France. Concentrated attack on railway marshaling yards. Extensive damage to the facility. Through line established after 5 days, Site was not fully working again until 1950

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 170+ aircraft attack on railway infrustructure Tergnier, France. Extensive damage caused

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 160+ aircraft attack minelaying operation in the Swinemunde Germany, the Kiel Bay, Germany & the Danish coast

The Pacific Campaign: British launched Operation Cockpit - an air raid on Japanese-held Sabang, Indonesia, incurring heavy damage to the port facilities and airfield.

The Pacific Campaign: Operation Ichi-Go, a series of three separate major battles between Chinese & Japanese forces, began during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Battle of Changsha began.

The Pacific Campaign: British launch Operation Cockpit - an air raid on Japanese-held Sabang, Indonesia, incurring heavy damage to the port facilities and airfield.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 740+ aircraft attack on Kassel, Germany.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 350+ aircraft attack on Cologne, Germany. City centre badly damaged, Opera House partly burnt out.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 190+ aircraft attack on railway infrustructure Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Severe damage to railway yards

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 170+ aircraft attack on railway infrustructure Lens, France. Severe damage to engine-sheds & carraige-repair workshop

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 400+ aircraft attack on various coastal gun sites at Etaples, Bazinghen, Villerville, Gravelines, and Fecamp, France

Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Crossbow, attack on V-Weapon sites: Heavy day-time American air raid, 660+ aircraft attack on various V-Weapon sites at Etaples, Bazinghen, Villerville, Gravelines, and Fecamp, France

Charles de Gaulle, leader of the French provisional government in Algiers, issued a simple decree giving French women the right to vote.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 230+ aircraft attack on various coastal gun sites at Etaples, Berck-sur-Mer, near Doullens, and in Saint-Omer, Abbeville, and Amiens area., France

The Kingdom of Afghanistan government responds to a revolt by a Zadran tribal leader named Mazarak, driving Mazarak into the hills.

Meeting begins between Adolf Hitler & Benito Mussolini begans at Schloss Klessheim near Salzburg, also attended by Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Rudolf Rahn and Karl Wolff on the German side and Serafino Mazzolini, Rodolfo Graziani, Filippo Anfuso and general Umberto Morera for the Italians. Mussolini and his delegation presented a list of problems the Italian Social Republic was having which they attributed to the lack of cooperation with German authorities, but the German delegation no longer respected Mussolini who by now resembled a shadow of his former self.

The Pacific Campaign: The Western New Guinea campaign begans with the Allied execution of Operations Reckless and Persecution. Allied forces carried out landings at Aitape and the Hollandia on New Guinea. General Hatazō Adachi's 11,000-man garrison was ill-prepared and an American foothold was easily gained. The Battle of Hollandia begans.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 590+ aircraft attack on Dusseldorf, Germany. City centre badly damaged.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 230+ aircraft attack on Brunswick, Germany. First visit to this city by Bomber Command. Raid was not successful on this heavily defended city

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 180+ aircraft attack on railway infrustructure Laon, France. Severe damage caused

Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Crossbow, attack on V-Weapon sites: Heavy day-time American air raid, 400+ aircraft attack on various V-Weapon sites at Saint-Omer and Hesdin., France

The second wave of Mesovouno massacres Greece, was carried out by German forces.

Wartime Football International: Scotland 2-3 England, Hampden Park, Glasgow

The Salzburg conference between Hitler and Mussolini concluded. A compromise was reached in which Mussolini agreed to continue permitting Italian troops to be trained in Germany, with the best fighters allowed to form the nucleus of the new National Republican Army.

The Pacific Campaign: American forces take Hollandia, New Guinea

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 110+ aircraft attack minelaying operation in the Baltic Sea

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 340+ aircraft attack on various coastal gun sites atPas de Calais area, France and in adjacent area of Belgium.

The Pacific Campaign: The Finisterre Range campaign ended in Allied victory in New Guinea.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 630+ aircraft attack on Karlsruhe, Germany. First visit to this city by Bomber Command. North part of city damaged

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 230+ aircraft attack on Munich, Germany. Serious damage to city centre

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British diversionary raid, 160+ aircraft sweeped over North Sea to a point 75 miles of German coast then returned. Part of German night-fighter aircraft committed to fake attack

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 710+ aircraft attack on aircraft factories at Landsberg, Oberpfaffenhofen, Erding, Friedrichshafen, Manzell, Lowental, Gablingen, Leipheim and Neckarsulm, Germany

Nazi occupation forces in Greece carried out the Pyrgoi massacre.

On Budget Day in the United Kingdom, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Anderson announced that the deficit for the past year was £2.76 billion. This was £89 million smaller than the deficit forecast by Anderson's predecessor, the late Kingsley Wood, because government revenue was higher than expected. Anderson presented a budget with only minor changes from the previous year and no additional taxation.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Crossbow, attack on V-Weapon sites: Heavy day-time American air raid, 240+ aircraft attack on various V-Weapon sites atLe Treport, Varengeville-sur-Mer, Fontenay-sur-Mer/Crisbec, Ault, Fecamp, Houlgate, and Saint-PierreduMont, France

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 300+ aircraft attack on aircraft factories at Mannheim, Germany

SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann and the Nazis offers the Hungarian rescue worker Joel Brand the "Blood for Goods" deal, proposing that one million Jews be allowed to leave Hungary for any Allied-occupied country except Palestine, in exchange for goods obtained outside of Hungary. The deal would never be made because the Allies believed it to be a trick and the British press slammed it as blackmail.

The Kidnap of Heinrich Kreipe: Two British SOE (Special Operations Executive) officers disguised as German police abducted the German officer Heinrich Kreipe as he rode on his way to his residence outside Heraklion, Crete.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 490+ aircraft attack on Essen, Germany. Successful attack on target

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 200+ aircraft attack on Schweinfurt, Germany. Failed attack poor marking of target

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 210+ aircraft attack on railway infrustructure Villeneuve-St-George, near Paris, France. Serious damage caused

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 300+ aircraft attack on Brunswick, Germany

The British government banned all travel abroad.

The legislative assembly of the Canadian province of Quebec voted 55-4 to adopt a motion introduced by René Chaloult expressing disapproval of any attempt to send conscripted men overseas.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 320+ aircraft attack on Friedrichshafen, Germany. The Air Ministry urged Bomber Command to attack this target.Home of many factories committed to the German war effort. Extensive damage caused. Partucularly badly damaged was the factory making tank engines

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 220+ aircraft attack on railway infrustructure Aulnoye, France. Severe damage caused

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 140+ aircraft attack on railway infrustructure Montzen, Belgium. Only part of railway yards was damaged

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British diversionary raid, 160+ aircraft sweeped over North Sea to a point of German coast then returned. Part of German night-fighter aircraft committed to fake attack

The Western Front: The first practice assault in Exercise Tiger, a series of large-scale rehearsals for D-Day, was held on Slapton Sands in Devon. The exercise was attacked by nine German E-boats that killed a total of 749 American servicemen. Two landing ships were sunk including USS LST-507.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Crossbow, attack on V-Weapon sites: Heavy day-time American air raid, 240+ aircraft attack on various V-Weapon sites across northern France

The Pacific Campaign: American attacks on the Japanese air base at Truk destroyed most of the aircraft.

The Pacific Campaign: American task force of nine heavy cruisers & eight destroyers bombarded Japanese positions on Satawan Atoll, in the Pacific Ocean

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 140+ aircraft attack on railway infrustructure Somain, France. Target missed

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 120+ aircraft attack on railway infrustructure Acheres, France. Serious damage caused

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 320+ aircraft attack on Maintenon, France. Target was a massive bomb & ammunition dump. Successful attack with spectacular series of explosions observed by departing bomber force

Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Crossbow, attack on V-Weapon sites: Heavy day-time American air raid, 410+ aircraft attack on various V-Weapon sites across northern France

The first of 500,000 prefabricated homes go on show in London. These homes were built as a temperary replacement for destroyed houses from the Blitz. These prefabs became popular with the tenents & some are still occupied 80 years later