1942年5月8日 | World War II Database

1942年5月8日

The German 11.Armee began its Crimean offensive. ww2dbase [Battle of Sevastopol | TH]
Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Rabaul. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | CPC]
The US 3rd Marine Brigade convoy arrived off Apia, American Samoa; its commander assumed military control of Western Samoa. ww2dbase [CPC]
Japanese troops captured Myitkyina, Burma. ww2dbase [Invasion of Burma | CPC]
German submarine U-507 sank Norwegian ship Torny in the Gulf of Mexico. ww2dbase [Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico Campaigns | CPC]
French submarine Monge attacked British carrier HMS Indomitable off Diego-Suárez, Madagascar at 0756 hours; all torpedoes missed. British destroyers HMS Active and HMS Panther counterattacked and sank Monge. ww2dbase [Indomitable | CPC]
USS Grenadier sank Japanese freighter Taiyo Maru 140 miles southwest of Japan. Taiyo Maru was carrying geologists and oil experts to the Dutch East Indies to survey sites for oil production. ww2dbase [Grenadier | CPC]
British submarine HMS Olympus departed Malta ferrying crews of sunken submarines HMS Pandora, HMS P36, and HMS P39, sailing for Gibraltar; HMS Olympus struck a mine and sank later on this date; 89 were killed, 9 survived. ww2dbase [CPC]

俄羅斯

Light cruiser Voroshilov bombarded German troop positions near Tash-Alchin, Russia. ww2dbase [Voroshilov | Tash-Alchin, Krym | CPC]
Nikolai Reek was executed by the Soviets in Usolye, Perm Oblast, Russia. ww2dbase [Nikolai Reek | Usolye, Perm | CPC]

夏威夷

Joseph Rochefort's cryptanalytic team in Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii detected hints that Japanese Navy fleet carriers and battleships were being attached, suggesting a large operation was being planned. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Battle of Midway and the Aleutian Islands | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

大西洋

German submarine U-564 sank US freighter Ohioan 10 kilometers north of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States, killing 15 of 37 aboard. On the same day, U-136 sank Canadian sailing ship Mildred Pauline with the deck gun off Nova Scotia, Canada. ww2dbase [Second Happy Time | CPC]

太平洋

Japanese and US carrier fleets at Coral Sea discovered each other in the morning, each closing in to attack. Japanese carrier Shokaku was damaged by 3 bombs at 1057 hours (223 casualties), while American carrier USS Lexington was hit by two bombs at 1120 hours (191 killed at 1120 hours; gasoline explosion at 1247 hours killed another 25; scuttled by USS Phelps at 1915 hours) and American carrier USS Yorktown was hit by a bomb (66 casualties). Meanwhile at Port Moresby, an Australian cruiser force successfully defended itself against land-based aircraft attack as it blocked the Japanese invasion fleet for Port Moresby, New Guinea. As both sides withdrew due to damage and losses, the Japanese scored a tactical victory, but lost strategic momentum as the Port Moresby invasion must now be delayed. ww2dbase [Frank Fletcher | Battle of Coral Sea | Yugure | Chuichi Hara | Takeo Takagi | Yorktown (Yorktown-class) | Shokaku | Zuikaku | Furutaka | Kinugasa | Haguro | Portland | Hammann | Myoko | Lexington (Lexington-class) | Coral Sea | CPC]
USS Skipjack attacked a small Japanese convoy, sinking Japanese transport Bujun Maru and damaging transport Taiyu Maru in the South China Sea 140 miles northeast of Cam Rahn Bay, French Indochina; six torpedoes were expended in this attack, three of which found their targets. ww2dbase [Skipjack | South China Sea | CPC]

德國

193 British bombers (98 Wellington, 27 Stirling, 21 Lancaster, 19 Halifax, 19 Hampden, 9 Manchester) attacked Warnemünde, Rostock, Germany; the primary target was the nearby Heinkel aircraft factory; 19 British bombers were destroyed during this attack. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Rostock, Mecklenburg | CPC]

法國

Leonardo da Vinci departed at Le Verdon-sur-Mer, France at 0800 hours and arrived at La Pallice, La Rochelle, France at 1400 hours. ww2dbase [Leonardo da Vinci | Le Verdon-sur-Mer, Aquitaine | CPC]

澳洲

Thirty soldiers of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery based on the Cocos Islands, an Indian Ocean territory of Australia, mutinied, intending to hand the islands over to the Japanese. The mutiny was put down by the Ceylon Light Infantry and ultimately fifteen rebels faced courts martial with three of the leading mutineers later executed. ww2dbase [Cocos | AC]

澳洲新幾內亞

USS S-44 fired two torpedoes at an unidentified target off the coast of New Britain; both torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [S-44 | New Britain | CPC]

直布羅陀

British minelayer HMS Welshman, disguised as a French destroyer, departed Gibraltar with RAF personnel and 240 tons of supplies for Malta. ww2dbase [Malta Campaign | CPC]

美國