War Diary – March

War Diary – March

17TH MARCH 1941
Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labour, announces a plan to mobilize masses of women to perform essential jobs in industry and the auxiliary services, especially in round-the – clock shell – filling factories

11TH MARCH 1942
The government announces a ban on the baking of white bread

5TH MARCH 1943
The Krupp munitions factory at Essen is raided by aircraft from R.A.F Bomber Command comprising Lancaster, Halifax, Stirling and Wellington bombers, marking the start of regular action against Germany's industrial centre, the Ruhr Valley

7TH MARCH 1945
US forces cross the Rhine into Germany by seizing intact the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen

23TH MARCH 1945
British and Canadian forces cross the Rhine, supported by airborne landings

27TH MARCH 1945
The last V-2 rocket launched at the UK lands in Orpington, Kent, 2,754 civilians have been killed by V-2's 6,523 have been seriously injured

29TH MARCH 1945
The last V-1 flying bomb to land in the UK hits Kent, 6,184 civilians have been killed by V-1's 17,981 seriously injured

2ND MARCH 1941
BOAC begins ball bearing run to Sweden

4TH – 27th MARCH 1941
British troops arrive in Greece

9TH MARCH 1941
Italians attack Greece from Albania

11TH MARCH 1941
US Lend – Lease Act signed

24th MARCH 1941
Rommel takes EL Agheila British complete clearing of British Somaliland

27TH MARCH 1941
Prince Paul overthrown in Yugoslavia

28TH MARCH 1941
Battle of Cape Matapan

7H MARCH 1942
Japanese land in New Guinea British Burma Army evacuates Rangoon

9TH MARCH 1942
Japanese secure Java, completing conquest of East Indies

23rd march 1942
Japanese seize Andaman Islands

27TH MARCH 1942
British raid Saint-Nazaire

1ST MARCH 1943
Battle of the Bismarck Sea (to 4th march)

6TH MARCH 1943
Rommel repulsed at Medenine

9TH MARCH 1943
Von Arnim replaces Rommel as Axis C-in -C in Africa

11TH MARCH 1943
Chennault' s air task force in china enlarged as 14th Air Force

14TH MARCH 1943
Germans retake Kharkov

16TH MARCH 1943
Convoy battle is climax of Battle of the Atlantic (to 20th March)

26TH MARCH 1943
Eighth Army breaks through Mareth Line Battle of Komandorski Islands, N, and Pacific

26TH MARCH 1943
US aircraft shoot down Admiral Yamamoto

5th MARCH 1944
Second Chindit expedition into Burma

6TH MARCH 1944
Japanese 15th Army opens offensive towards India

20TH MARCH 1944
Germans occupy Hungary

25TH MARCH 1944
Death of General Wingate in air crash

30TH MARCH 1944
R.A.F. suffers heavy losses in raid on Nuremberg

3RD MARCH 1945
Japanese resistance in Manila ends

5TH MARCH 1945
US First Army units enter Cologne (secured 7th March)

7TH MARCH 1945
Troops of US 9th Armoured Division cross Rhine on bridge at Remagen

9TH MARCH 1945
US B-29's begin incendiary campaign against Japanese cities

11TH MARCH 1945
US Eighth Army units land on Mindanao

22ND MARCH 1945
In surprise action, troops of US Third Army cross Rhine at Oppenheim

23TH MARCH 1945
British Second Army begins crossing Rhine near Rees

26TH MARCH 1945
Fighting ends on Iwo Jima

27TH MARCH 1945
Last V-2 rocket lands in England

30TH MARCH 1945
Burma secured by British Forces

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