February 6, 1944
Today in World War II Pacific History
Day by day chronology
SUNDAY, 6 FEBRUARY 1944
BURMA-INDIA (Tenth Air Force): 12 P-51s hit warehouses and freight cars at
Wuntho, Burma and claim four warehouses destroyed.
CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force): 11 P-40s on armed reconnaissance strafe sampans
and power launches between Yoyang and Puchi, China. 6 B-25s knock out bridges
and damage 3 trains at Anxuan, Tien An, Phong Loc and Dong Hoi, French Indochina.
PACIFIC OCEAN AREA (POA, Seventh Air Force): B-24s from Tarawa hit Maloelap and Wotje; A-24s and P-40s from Makin attack Mille. P-39s from Tarawa strafe Jaluit.
SOUTH PACIFIC AREA (SOPAC, Thirteenth Air Force): P-39s and RNZAF Ventura's
hit barges in the Green
Island area. Lakunai Airfield is hit by 32 B-25s, covered by 60+ AAF and USN fighters, and shortly afterwards
by 19 B-24s, escorted by nearly 50 Allied fighters; Allied aircraft claim 16
aircraft shot down; Lakunai is practically unserviceable as a result of cumulative
damage.
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA (SWPA, Fifth Air Force): B-25s and B-24s
pound Bunabun Harbor, Madang, and targets from Bogia to Cape Croisilles; P-39s
strafe and sink barges near Nubia; and A-20s hit shipping near Kairiru and Mushu causing considerable damage and destruction. Other bombers hit
targets in the Admiralties, concentrating on Momote and carry out light attacks on Talasea village and Cape Dampier gun positions
on New Britain Island. Lost are P-39N pilot Gilpatrick (KIA), B-25D "Sticky Kitty" 42-87286 (MIA).
USMC: Lost on a mission against Rabaul is F4U 55916 (MIA).
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