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History on the 1st of April 1942

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01 Apr 1942 WW2 During this month, Captain Kaoru Arima, Chief Equipping Officer of the future battleship Musashi, paid an orientation visit on Yamato with members of Musashi's fitting-out crew. 
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01 Apr 1942 WW2 Japanese troops landed at Buka and Santa Isabel in the Solomon Islands. 
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01 Apr 1942 WW2 Submarine USS Swordfish departed with 40 tons of food and supplies for Corregidor, Philippine Islands, but she would be unable to deliver before the American garrison surrendered at Bata'an. 
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01 Apr 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Saipan, departing later on the same day. 
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01 Apr 1942 WW2 Georg von Bismarck became the commanding officer of the 21st Panzer Division. 
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01 Apr 1942 WW2 Trawler Anticosti was launched. 
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01 Apr 1942 WW2 USS Astoria arrived at Nouméa, New Caledonia. 
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01 Apr 1942 WW2 Light carrier Hosho was assigned to the 1st Air Fleet. 
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01 Apr 1942 WW2 German submarine U-77 was damaged by a British Swordfish aircraft 50 miles north of Sidi Barrani, Egypt, causing her to lose the ability to dive. 
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01 Apr 1942 WW2 British submarine HMS Urge sank Italian cruiser Bande Nere north of Sicily, Italy at 0900 hours with two torpedo hits. 
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01 Apr 1942 WW2 German anti-submarine trawler UJ-1203 struck a mine and sank in the Gulf of Finland. 
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01 Apr 1942 WW2 German submarine U-71 sank British ship Eastmoor 500 miles north of Bermuda at 0403 hours; 16 were killed, 32 survived. About two hours later at 0618 hours, U-754 sank US tanker Tiger 10 miles off Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States, killing 1 of 43 aboard. To the southeast, 60 miles off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, United States, U-160 sank British ship Rio Blanco at 1622 hours; 19 were killed, 21 survived. In the far south Atlantic, at 1724 hours, German armed merchant cruiser Thor sank British freighter Willesden with gunfire and a torpedo; 2 were killed. Finally, U-202 sank British ship Loch Don 500 miles north of Bermuda at 2314 hours; 3 were killed, 44 survived. 
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01 Apr 1942 WW2 British submarine HMS Truant sank Japanese merchant ships Yae Maru and Shunsei Maru in the Malacca Strait between Malaya and Sumatra, Dutch East Indies. 
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01 Apr 1942 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille was promoted to the rank of Oberleutnant. 
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01 Apr 1942 WW2 The newly arrived US squadron in Port Moresby, Australian Papua, flying A-24 Banshee aircraft, launched its first attack on Japanese positions. The primary target was Lae on the northern coast of New Guinea, but due to cloud cover, the secondary target of Salamaua was attacked; the attack caused only minor damage. 
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01 Apr 1942 WW2 The Japanese 25th Air Flotilla was assigned to Rabaul, New Britain under the command of Rear Admiral Sadayoshi Yasuda. 
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01 Apr 1942 WW2 Tenryu arrived at Rabaul, New Britain, refueled, and departed later in the day. 
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01 Apr 1942 WW2 Joseph Stilwell arrived in Chongqing, China, threatening to resign his post as Chiang's chief of staff over Chinese field commanders' insubordination. 
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01 Apr 1942 WW2 Japanese cruiser Naka was hit by a torpedo from US submarine USS Seawolf (of three fired) off Christmas Island, causing serious damage. She would be towed to Bantam Bay, Java, Dutch East Indies for repairs. 
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01 Apr 1942 WW2 Tomokazu Kasai began basic flight school in Japan. 
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01 Apr 1942 WW2 As Italian bombers sank British submarines HMS P36 and HMS Pandora in Valetta Harbour, Malta, the island had become one of the most bombed place on earth. Although Malta remained a thorn on the Axis' side, making convoying between Italy and North Africa hazardous, the Luftwaffe told an impatient Hitler that they could not sink an island with bombs. 
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01 Apr 1942 WW2 Soviet submarine ShCh-404 sank German freighter Michel in the Barents Sea 8 miles north of Kirkenes, Norway. 
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01 Apr 1942 WW2 In Washington DC, United States, General George Marshall and his General Staff enthusiastically accepted a plan, submitted by Dwight Eisenhower, for an immediate assault across the English Channel into Nazi-occupied France with ten divisions of British and Canadian troops; it was understood that the British and the Canadians would likely see a very high casualty rate from such an invasion. 
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01 Apr 1942 WW2 Under strict security sixteen modified B-25 bombers were lifted onto the USS Hornet and lashed to the flight deck at Naval Air Station Alameda, California, United States. 
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01 Apr 1942 WW2 General George Marshall and Major General Dwight Eisenhower presented a plan of war to President Franklin Roosevelt. This plan included "Operation Bolero" which would see the immediate preparation of 30 divisions, of which six were to be armoured, and complimentary air-power for movement across the Atlantic Ocean within the period of a year. 
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