Friendly fire due to lack of coordination killed US servicemen participating in Exercise Tiger, a landing practice operation. The number of casualties inflicted remains unknown, but was large.
Later that night, into the next day, three American LST's were attacked and sunk in Lyme Bay by E-boats.
As a result of these incidents, over 700 troops were killed, with 400 of them being on a single LST. The incident was kept secret.
The UK banned all travel outside Great Britain.
Quebec's legislative assembly voted 55 to 4 for a motion disapproving of sending conscripts overseas.
The Soviet Air Force raided Lvov at night.
The city had been in pre-war Poland. Now, as Lviv, it's in Ukraine, and is once again subject to Russian attack.
The U-803 was sunk by a mine in the Baltic.
Today In Wyoming's History: April 27: 1944 The Wyoming Stock Growers Association gave the University of Wyoming its archives, a major contribution given the enormous role the WSGA had in the early history of the state. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
Sewell Avery, the principal of Montgomery Ward, and a highly successful and extremely conservative businessman, had to be forcibly removed from his office due to his refusal to settle a strike. Ward's was delivering vital war goods. Avery would accordingly not only be carted out of his office by two Military Policemen, but temporary lose his office with the company.
Upon being carried out and meeting the Attorney General who was delegated to the matter, he yelled.
To hell with the government, you... New Dealer!
He subsequently complained that the government was leading the nation into a government of dictators.
While a savvy businessman, he misread the post-war economy and the changes that the war had brought to labor relations, and Montgomery Ward lost its position as a department store leader to Sears Roebuck. In another misread, Avery had assigned the rights to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer to the company employee who had written the story for a Ward's promotional.
For some reason, I feel that Avery would be a Trump supporter.
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