Aces High, the number one World War 2 flight simulator, welcomes you to “This Day in World War 2” as we look once again at important events during that war. Today we will highlight April 9, 1942.
On this day in history, the Japanese Navy launched an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon. Bataan also fell to the Japanese on this day and the Bataan Death March began as captives are taken to detention camps in the north. Corregidor, in the middle of Manila Bay, remained as the final point of resistance in the area.
