Palm Sunday Coup

Palm Sunday Coup
	Part of civil unrest during World War II
	; Soldiers in San Salvador during the coup attempt
Date	2–3 April 1944
Location	El Salvador
Result	Coup suppressed
Belligerents
Military government; Loyal armed forces;	Rebel armed forces
Commanders and leaders
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez; Andrés Ignacio Menéndez;	Francisco Alfonso Marroquín ; Tito Tomás Calvo
Units involved
Salvadoran Army	First Infantry Regiment; Second Artillery Regiment; Salvadoran Air Force;

The Palm Sunday Coup (Spanish: golpe de estado del Domingo de Ramos) was an attempted military coup d'état in El Salvador which occurred in early-April 1944. The coup was staged by pro-Axis sympathizers in the Salvadoran Army against President General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez.