Editing 1944 (section)

===April===
{{Main article|April 1944}}

*[[April 1]] &ndash; The Swiss city of [[Schaffhausen]] is [[Aerial incidents in Switzerland in World War II#Schaffhausen|accidentally bombed]] by the United States causing serious damage to the city and killing or wounding more than 100 people.<ref>{{cite book |title=Air University Review |date=1976 |publisher=Department of the Air Force |page=20 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=py6oImEZoDMC&pg=RA3-PA20 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[April 2]] &ndash; WWII: [[Ascq massacre]]: Members of the [[12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend|12th SS Panzer Division ''Hitlerjugend'']] shoot 85 civilians suspected of blowing up their train on its approach to the [[Gare d'Ascq]] in France.
*[[April 4]] WWII:
**Allied bombardment of [[Bucharest]], Romania begins. The United States Air Force and British Royal Air Force, with approximately 3,640 bombers of different types, accompanied by about 1,830 fighters bomb [[Romania]] for the following 4½ months. As collateral damage, 5,524 inhabitants are killed, 3,373 injured, and 47,974 left homeless.
**An Allied [[Aerial reconnaissance|photoreconnaissance aircraft]] of [[60 Squadron SAAF]] photographs part of [[Auschwitz concentration camp]].
*[[April 10]] 
**[[The Holocaust]]: [[Rudolf Vrba]] and [[Alfréd Wetzler]] escape from [[Auschwitz concentration camp]]; on April 25&ndash;27 they prepare the [[Vrba–Wetzler report]], one of the earliest and most detailed descriptions of the extermination of Jews in the camp.
** WWII: As part of the [[Odessa Offensive]], the Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front liberated the city of [[Odessa]] in Southern Ukraine.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://books.stonebooks.com/wardiary/19440410/ |title=War Diary for Monday, 10 April 1944 |website=Stone & Stone Second World War Books |access-date=April 15, 2023}}</ref>
*[[April 14]]
** [[Bombay Explosion (1944)|Bombay Explosion]]: Freighter SS ''Fort Stikine'', carrying a mixed cargo of ammunition, cotton bales and gold, explodes in harbour at [[Bombay]] (India), sinking surrounding ships and killing around 800 people.
** WWII: As part of the Japanese-supported Axis forces led by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, fighting for India's liberation from British rule, Col. Shaukat Ali Malik of the Bahadur Group of the Indian National Army enters Moirang in modern-day Manipur in northeastern India and raises the flag of the Azri Hukumat e-Azad Hind for the first time on Indian soil. This is considered to be one of the first times in British Indian history where an army of liberation raises the national flag on Indian mainland.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bishnupur.nic.in/tourist-place/ina-memorial-moirang/|title=INA Memorial Moirang &#124; Bishnupur District, Government of Manipur &#124; India|accessdate=April 15, 2023}}</ref>
*[[April 15]] &ndash; Italian fascist philosopher [[Giovanni Gentile]] is assassinated in [[Florence]] by [[:it:Bruno Fanciullacci|Bruno Fanciullacci]], a member of the partisan [[Gruppi di Azione Patriottica]].
*[[April 16]] &ndash; WWII: Allied forces start bombing [[Belgrade]], killing about 1,100 people. This bombing falls on the Orthodox Christian Easter.
*[[April 19]] &ndash; WWII:
** The Japanese launch the [[Operation Ichi-Go]] offensive in central and south China.
** [[:fr:Semaine rouge (Rouen)|Semaine rouge]]: American and British planes bomb the city of [[Rouen]].
*[[April 20]] 
** Members of the [[Slovene Home Guard]] swear an oath to [[Hitler]] on his birthday at [[Bežigrad Stadium]].
* [[April 22]] &ndash; WWII: [[Battle of Hollandia]]: American forces disembark at [[Tanahmerah Bay]] and at [[Yos Sudarso Bay]], near [[Jayapura|Hollandia]]. The landings are undertaken simultaneously with the amphibious [[Landing at Aitape|invasion of Aitape]] ("Operation Persecution") to the east.<ref>Morison, S.E. (1960). ''New Guinea and the Marianas: March 1944 – August 1944'', p. 84. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Volume VIII. Boston: Little, Brown. {{OCLC|174795561}}.</ref>   
*[[April 25]]
** The Holocaust: [[SS]]-''[[Obersturmbannführer]]'' [[Adolf Eichmann]] opens "blood for goods" negotiations with [[Joel Brand]], to offer the release of thousands of Jews from eastern Europe to the Hungarian [[Aid and Rescue Committee]], in exchange for supplies for the German [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Eastern Front]].
** The [[United Negro College Fund]] is incorporated in the [[United States]].
*[[April 26]] &ndash; WWII:
**[[Kidnap of General Kreipe|German General Kreipe is kidnapped]] on [[Crete]], Greece.
** American submarine {{USS|Jack|SS-259|6}} torpedoes Japanese cargo carrier {{SS|Yoshida Maru No. 1||2}}; 2,649 drown.<ref name="take">{{cite web|url=http://www.jsu.or.jp/siryo/sunk/pdf/take.pdf|title=Convoy Take Ichi|publisher=All Japan Seamen's Union|access-date=2011-11-17}}</ref>
*[[April 28]] &ndash; WWII: Allied convoy T4, forming part of amphibious [[Exercise Tiger]] (a full-scale rehearsal for the [[Normandy landings]]) in [[Start Bay]], off the [[Devon]] coast of England, is attacked by [[E-boat]]s, resulting in the deaths of 749 American servicemen from [[Landing Ship, Tank|LST]]s.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Small|first1=Ken|first2=Mark|last2=Rogerson|title=The Forgotten Dead – Why 946 American Servicemen Died off the Coast of Devon in 1944 – and the Man who Discovered their True Story|location=London|publisher=Bloomsbury|year=1988|isbn=978-0-7475-0309-5}}</ref>