Troops of Companies E and G, 132nd Inf. Regt., 23rd Division, cross a stream in an area devastated by shellfire during their advance on Japanese pillboxes near the Torokina River. 7 April, 1944.
From Sarah Sundin's blog:
Today in World War II History—April 7, 1944: Slovak Jews Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler escape from Auschwitz; they will write a detailed report that will be published in Geneva on May 17.
All laws in Berlin were suspended and Joseph Goebbels was made the sole administator of the city.
The land bridge held by the German 17th Army connecting Crimea to Ukraine came under Red Army attack.
The German 1st Panzer Army broke out of encirclement at Buchnach.
The Britisih XXXIII Corps was encirced by the Japanese at Josama, Burma. Fighting will shortly become hand to hand.
The U-856 was scuttled in the Atlantic after sustaining heavy damage from U.S. ships.
It was Good Friday.
Polish troops observed the day in Jeresualem.
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