Diary April 30, 1944

04-1944, Diary WW2, War Diary, Year 1944 / 1 minute of reading

General Kreipe kidnapped — General Kreipe (center) between two of his kidnappers,

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, April 30, 1944:

Secret War

Greece: General Kreipe (commander of ‘Fortress Crete’) kidnapped by Partisans (leaded by British Commandos) in Crete and taken by British submarine to Alexandria.

Air War

Western Europe: Avro Lancaster bombers blow up munition dump at Maintenon, southwest of Paris.

Home Front

Britain: ABSIE (American Broadcasting Station in Europe) on the air.
USSR: Death of Alexei Novikov-Priboy, author of ‘Tsushima’; aged 66.

Sea War

Merchant shipping losses in April 1944: 8 Allied ships with 48,231 tons in Atlantic, 5 Allied ships with 34,141 tons elsewhere.
38 Japanese ships with 128,328 tons in Pacific.
19 U-boats sunk in the Atlantic, Arctic or Baltic (worldwide total of 19 losses), 19 new U-boats operational, 474 U-boats of all types total in service.

About The Author

Kretaner

My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.