Today was Memorial Day for 1944.
The Japanese mounted aggressive counterattacks on Biak and Arare, using tanks on Biak.
The Germans gave up the four-month strategic bombing campaign against Southern England.
The U-549 sank the USS Block Island off of the Canary Islands. Six crew members died, but 951 were picked up. The U-549 was sunk in the same engagement. All 57 hands went down with her.
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German graveyard and unburied dead at Cori, Italy. Germans evacuated so quickly that they failed to bury their dead, May 29, 1944.
The Allies took Campoleone and Carroceto.
The U.S. Army Air Force attacked the synthetic fuel factories at Polits.
Field Marshal Busch, Army Group Center, presented evidence of a major Soviet buildup. Hitler emphasized improving the defensive fortifications at Vitebsk, Polotsk, Rosh, Mogilev and Bobriusk and to defend them at all costs, as if stemming the Red tide was really possible.
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