April 8th, 1943 (THURSDAY)
TUNISIA: Axis forces continue their withdrawal towards Enfidaville.
Ninth Air Force P-40s fly 29 bomber escort, armed reconnaissance, and fighter-bomber missions against retreating column along coast north of Gabes.
Northwest African Air Force P-40s and Spitfires fly sweeps and armed reconnaissance over the Faid Pass-Fondouk el Aouareb-Kairouan-Ousseltia area as the British X Corps attacks Fondouk.
Other fighters fly widespread reconnaissance and sweeps, attacking motor transport south of Zaghouan. Western Desert Air Force fighters hit retreating columns in the Cekhira-Sfax area.
CHINA: 10 Fourteenth Air Force P-40s strafe Ft Bayard Airfield.
BURMA: 9 Tenth Air Force B-25 Mitchells bomb Meiktila Airfield; 6 B-24s attack the airfield at Heho; and 4 P-40s and a B-25 strafe an enemy dump at Ningam.
NEW GUINEA: Fifth Air Force B-17 and B-24s bomb Finschhafen.
SOLOMON ISLANDS: The oiler USS Kanawha (AO-1), damaged by Japanese dive bombers yesterday, and beached off Tulagi by tugs USS Rail (AT-139) and USS Menominee (AT-73), sinks before daybreak.
BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO: Fifth Air Force B-17 Flying Fortresses and B-24 Liberators carry out small harassing raids on Ulamoa and Kavieng Airdrome on New Ireland Island.
TERRITORY OF ALASKA: ALEUTIAN ISLANDS: The Eleventh Air Force weather aircraft scouts Kiska and islands west of it with negative results.
U.S.A.: President Roosevelt orders certain wage and price controls in his effort to combat inflation. His order also restricts the ability of some workers to change jobs.