The Uman–Botoșani Offensive concluded in a wide-ranging Soviet victory. The Soviets had advanced 190 miles in one month, cleared southwestern Ukraine and entered Romania and Moldova. The offensive had been, moreover, carried out during spring mud season, the rasputitsa. It was one of the most successful Soviet advances of the war.
The Take-Ichi sendan (竹一船団, "Bamboo No. One" convoy) left Shanghai with two infantry divisions to reinforce the Philippines and western New Guinea. Its story was to be fateful and strategically important.
Following an attack on his unit by Greek Communists on Orthodox Easter Monday, Greek army officer and partisan, Col. Dimitrios Psarros (Δημήτριος Ψαρρός), founder of the partisan National and Social Liberation organization was executed in an early indication of how things were going to go as the Axis control of Greece loosened. Greece would be in a civil war before the end of World War Two.
Fr. Max Josef Metzger, German Catholic Priest and founder of the German Catholic Peace Association, was executed by the Nazi German state. He is regarded as a Catholic martyr.
The U-342 was sunk in the North Atlantic by a RCAF PBY.
Civilian airliner Deutsche Lufthansa D-AOCA, a Junkers Ju-52/3m was shot down on scheduled service E.17 from Vienna to Athens with stops in Belgrade, Sofia, and Thessaloniki. An Allied fighter sweep of Belgrade mistook it for a military aircraft. Five of its seven occupants were killed.
A Royal Air Force Warwick passenger plane went down over the UK, creating a mystery. As the recovery of its doomed passengers occured, large amounts of cash were found with them.
United Features Syndicate began to run Bill Mauldin's Up Front in U.S. newspapers.
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