March 27th, 1944 (MONDAY)
FRANCE: 701 Eighth Air Force B-17s and B-24s, escorted by 960 P-38s, P-47s and P-51s attack 11 airfields. Ninth Air Force dispatches 53 B-26s to hit V-1 sites in northern France; only 18 attack due to bad weather.
VICHY FRANCE: The government authorises Frenchmen to enrol in the SS.
ROMANIA: German troops rush to reinforce the country as Soviet forces approach the border.
U.S.S.R.: The Red Army takes Kamenets-Podolski, in the Ukraine.
LITHUANIA: Kovno: Starting today SS troops round up and shoot dead all Jewish children under 13 years of age.
ITALY: Twelfth Air Force A-20s, A-36s, B-25s, P-40s and P-47s attack railway tracks, bridges, command posts and supply dumps.
BURMA: 130+ Tenth Air Force A-31s B-24s, B-25s, P-38s and P-51 attack supply dumps, troop concentrations, bridge and rail facilities.
Air Commando Combat Mission N0. 38 2:45 Flight Time Hailakandi, Assam to Meza, Burma. Bombed and destroyed bridge. The Japs repair this bridge as fast as we blow it up.
'Notes: Had a 2 day break after coming back from Broadway and no record of what we did?. A sort of PX was put into operation. Remember that Zippo lighters were in short supply and sold only by lottery. Officers got a liquor ration and enlisted got a beer ration. We tried cooling our beer in a hypo solution liberated from the photo lab. Cooled the beer but left an awful taste on the cans. (Chuck Baisden)
CHINA: 60+ Fourteenth Air Force P-38s, P-40s and P-51s attack bridges, warehouses and ground troops.
FRENCH INDOCHINA: Six B-25s attack rail cars, a bridge and two factories near Viet Tri.
NEW GUINEA: Nearly 200 Fifth Air Force A-20s, B-24s, B-25s, P-39s, P-40s and P-47s attack a wide range of targets along the coast.
BOUGAINVILLE ISLAND: 8 Thirteenth Air Force P-40s hit a fuel dump.
MARSHALL ISLANDS: Seventh Air Force B-24s and B-25s attack Maloelap, Mille, Wotje and Jaluit Atolls.
NEW BRITAIN ISLAND: 23 Thirteenth Air Force B-25s and 34 fighters hit Wunapope with incendiaries.
Gilbert Islands: 9th Troop Carrier Squadron moves from Hawaii to Abemama and then to Saipan on 4 Aug 44.