Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Tuesday, 28 April 1942

US NAVY

ATLANTIC—U.S. Escort Force (Rear Admiral Robert C. Giffen) departs Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands, to protect convoys to Russia.

            District patrol craft YP-77 is sunk in collision off Atlantic Coast.

US ARMY AIR FORCE

EIGHTH AF—VIII Ground Air Support Command is activated at Bolling Field.

US ARMY

MINDANAO—Japanese are particularly aggressive against Digos defense force.

BURMA—Chinese 28th Division, 66th Army, is ordered to Lashio from Mandalay, since Lashio is in great danger.

US MARINE CORPS

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