April 10 Navy announces that 3,500 marines and bluejackets escaped from Bataan to Corregidor. April 11 Japs begin all out assault on Corregidor, blasting base hospital. Waves of RAF planes bomb German heldinvasion coast. April 13 Japanese fleet sails into Bay of Bengal, Large enemy force reported moving on India. Fall of Bataan attributed to starvation of men. April 14 Pierre Laval, strong pro Nazi, is made chief of government in France as Marshal Petain yields to German pressure. French break with U. S. forecast. April 15 American Army planes, led by Brig. Gen. Ralph Royce, make 4,000 mile round trip raid on Jap bases in Philippines. FRENCHMEN REVOLT April 16 Paris citizens rise in protest against Lavals moves to collaborate with Axis. Germans execute 25 Frenchmen following mass arrests. Sugar ration of one half pound weekly for U. S. citizens is decreed by OPA. April 17 War Department announces that more than 65,000 troops and civilians on Bataan are unreported and are presumably in the hands of the enemy. Secretary of War Stim son announces that U. S. Army is nearing offensive stage. April 18 U. S. warplanes bomb Tokyo, Nagoya, and Kobe for the first time in history, strewing death and destruction across an 800 mile trail in a bold daylight raid. Raid announced by Tokyo radio, U. S. leaders remain mum. Donald Nelson says U. S. production now surpasses Axis. April 20 Japs now drive to end Corregidor resistance with violent dive bomber attacks on island fortress. Russ advance nears Smolensk. April 22 British test Nazi defenses with commando raid on Boulogne coast. April 23 Hitler, fearing invasion, orders mobilization of 1,900,000 reserves. Japanese seize Loikaw, key town in Eastern Burma. April 25 RAF bombers raid Rostock again, dropping 400 tons of bombs on war plants and shipping installations.. Attack is termed greatest air raid of the war. April 27 President Roosevelt asks Congress to enact legislation giving power to freeze all wages and prices. U. S. Destroyer Sturtevant sunk off Florida Coast with small loss of life. Adolf Hitler makes himself supreme master of German people with power to demand complete obedience from every resident. American men from 45 to 64 register for possible non combatant service in war. April 28 Tank led Japanese troops drive closer to Mandalay. April 29 U. S. Armed Forces fight on all fronts, President Roosevelt states. Price order issued freezing rents and prices of most consumer goods at March levels, with order to become effective May 18. April 30 London reports says Nazis send out peace feeler. Death of Brig. Gen. Harold H. George in Australian planes accident announced in Washington. Japs capture Lashio on Burma Road. May May 1. Japs within 20 miles of Mandalay as British and Chinese retreat. American supply route to Australia menaced by Jap fleet in Marshall Islands. May 2 Navy announces casualties from Dec. 7 to date as 5,486 dead and missing. Tokyo claims capture of Mandalay. May 4 Sugar rationing registration starts. British raiders set Hamburg docks afire. May 5 France rejects U. S. request that French forces do not oppose British occupation of Madagascar; British troops make advances in island attack. Japs use Burma to launch China invasion. May 6 Corregidor falls. Island fortress captured by Japanese just six months after beginning of the war. Navy announces that 3,845 officers and men of navy and marine corps were on the island when it was taken by Japs. U. S. Government tightens installment buying in effort to force people to get out of debt. April 24 Japs drive within 100 miles of Mandalay. RAF planes set fire to Rostock. Russians intern crew of American plane which lost its way after bombing Tokyo. May 7 War Department announces that approximately 11,574 soldiers, sailors, marines and civilians were captured by Japs on Corregidor and other Manila Bay forts. Navy announces sinking of 11 Japanese warships, eight of them in a naval engagement near the Solomon Islands. British capture Diego Suarez naval base in Madagascar. May 8 Giant naval battle rages the Coral Sea. Allies claim sinking of nine Jap warships. May 9 United Nations claim great victory in Coral Sea, listing 11 Jap ships sunk, six damaged. Those listed as sunk included one aircraft carrier, one heavy cruiser, one light cruiser, two destroyers, four gunboats, two cargo or transport ships. Tokyo claims four U. S. ships sunk, three damaged. May 11 Churchill warns Nazis not to use poison gas. Vichy claims receipt of U. S. ultimatum demanding demobilization of fleet at Martinique. May 12 U. S. planes continue to hunt and bomb Jap Coral Sea fleet, bringing total Jap losses to 23 ships. May 13 Nazis mass 2,000,000 men for smash into Ukraine. May 14 French authorities in Martinique yield to U. S. re- quest and demobilize all warships in their harbors. Russ attack Nazis in Kharkov. May 16 Nazis capture Kerch. Russ storm Khargov. Lavall denounces U. S. demands on Martinique. INTER AMERICAN PACT May 18 Panama and U. S. sign pact to allow U. S. to use defense bases in Central American regublic. May 19 War Department announces that Brig. Gen. James H. Doolittle led U. S. army planes on bombing raid of Tokyo on April 18. Tens of thousands more U. S. troops reach Ireland. May 20 100,000 Nazi parachutists prepare for Caucasus invasion. May 21 Axis reports claim U. S. troops have been landed at Gibraltar. May 22 Germans stop Russian advance At Kharkov. May 25 Russians recapture offensive at Kharkov. May 26 Clearfield, Utah, chosen as site for $35,000,000 naval supply depot. May 27 Axis launches new offensive in Libya, threatening Tobruk. U. S. sinks third submarine near Brazil, surrender of fourth reported. May 28 Mexicos president, Manuel Avila Camacho, asks Mexican Congress to declare war on Axis. German, Italian troops within 15 miles of Tobruk. May 29 Gestapo starts reign of terror in Czechoslovakia after shooting of Reinhard Heydrich, Reichs protector for Bohemia and Moravia. May 30 RAF bombs Paris area heavily. Mexico declares war on Axis. June June 1 First 1,000 plane raid by RAF leave Cologne in ruins. Dead estimated at 20,000. June 2British send 1,036 planes on bombing raid over Essen, home of Krupp munitions plant. June 3 Japanese bomb Dutch Harbor, Alaska, in first bombing attack on North American continent. Damage unknown. R. A. P. bombers blast at Essen. June 4 Dutch Harbor again attacked. Reinhard Heydrich dies of wounds inflicted by assassins on May 27. Nazis threaten to kill hundred to avenge The Hangman. June 5American and Jap fleets clash in giant sea battle near Midway. U. S. establishes Food Requirements Committee under Secretary of Agriculture Wickard to control the production and allocation of all civilian and military food suplies. June 6 U. S. claims smashing victory in Midway battle, with damage to Nipponese fleet reported. June 8 Japanese losses at Midway set at 14 ships sunk or damaged, with at least two and possibly three airplane carriers having gone down. U. S. says one American destroyer sunk, aircraft carrier damaged. June 10 Germans launch great drive against Sevastopol. Japs claim landings in Aleutians. June 11 U. S., Great Britain and Russia reach a full understanding with regard to the urgency of creating a second front in Europe in 1942. Britain and Russia announce signing of 20 year mutual assistance treaty. June 12 Navy announces sinking of U.S. aircraft carrier Lexington in Coral Sea early in