April 7

Italian commanders in Albania.

The Yamato sinking.

On April 7, 1939 in an effort to copy Hitlers invasion of Prague, Mussolini launches an invasion of Albania. The invasion was a success even though the Italian troops were highly unorganized. Also in 1945 ostensibly the greatest battleship in the world, the Japanese Yamato, was sunk by the Allies in Japan's first major counteroffensive to defend Okinawa.