Mar 17 General Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander

Mar 01 Suriname camp for NSB people opens to save Jews

Mar 19 FDR orders men between 45 &64 to register for non military duty

Mar 26 ADM King becomes both Chief of Naval Operations and Commander, U.S. Fleet

Mar 28 British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire

Mar 23 Japanese forces occupy Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean

Mar 02 14th Academy Awards "How Green was My Valley", Gary Cooper &Joan Fontaine win

Mar 26 The first "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz &Birkenau Camps

Mar 12 The birth of Brian O'Hara, Lead singer with the 'Fourmost' group

Mar 21 The Flying Tigers were incorporated into the U.S. Army Air Force

Mar 29 German submarine U-585 sinks

Mar 17 Belzec Concentration Camp opens-30,000 Lublin Polish Jews transported

Mar 08 KNIL, Dutch colonial army on Java, surrenders to Japanese armies

Mar 27 Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 6 to retain heavyweight boxing title (New York NY)

Mar 07 Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed

Mar 26 The first 700 Jews from Polish Lvov-district reach concentration camp Belzec

Mar 07 Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion

Mar 20 Major German assault on Malta

Mar 20 Convoy PQ13 departs Reykjavik Iceland to Russia

Mar 18 Illegal Free Netherlands announces boycott of theaters

Mar 30 SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki labor camp

Mar 28 234 RAF bombers attack Lübeck

Mar 01 HMS EXETER sunk, East Indies, north west of Surabaya in Java Sea by torpedoes and 8in gunfire of Japanese cruiser force.

Mar 27 The Canadian Parliament passes War Appropriation (United Kingdom) Finance Act; $700 million British debt written off. The cost to each Canadian is $87

Mar 23 2,500 Jews of Lublin massacred or deported

Mar 19 Thoroughbred Racing Association of US formed in Chicago

Mar 19 SecNav gave Civil Engineering Corps command of Seabees

Mar 03 First combat flight for Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane

Mar 07 15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta

Mar 09 Construction of the Alaska Highway began

Mar 13 Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes first woman colonel in US army

Mar 18 2 black players, Jackie Robinson & Nate Moreland, request a tryout with the Chicago White Sox, they are allowed to work out

Mar 25 R&B vocalist Aretha Franklin born this day.

Mar 23 US move native-born of Japanese ancestry into detention centers

Mar 11 Japanese troop land on North-Sumatra

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