Mar 30 781 British bombers attack Neurenberg

Mar 16 Vichy Internal minister Pucheu sentenced to death

Mar 04 Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy

Mar 18 Nazi Germany occupies Hungary

Mar 15 Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing

Mar 27 1,000 Jews leave Drancy France for Auschwitz Concentration Camp

Mar 25 Germany troop executes 335 residents of Rome

Mar 18 2,500 women trample guards & floorwalkers to purchase 1,500 alarm clocks announced for sale in a Chicago IL department store

Mar 03 The first performance of corporal Samuel Barber's 2nd Symphony

Mar 31 Hungary orders all Jews to wear yellow stars

Mar 30 First use of torpedo squadrons from carriers to drop aerial mines (Palau Harbor)

Mar 21 General Eisenhower postpones S France invasion until after Normandy

Mar 20 Lt. Gen. Henry Duncan Graham Crerar 1888-1965 appointed to command of 1st Canadian Army; largest field formation ever formed by Canada; includes British, Dutch, Belgian, and Polish units.

Mar 27 Australian Government launches First Victory Loan aimed at raising £150 million ($300 million) for the war effort Twelve major government war loans were offered to the Australian public during World War Two

Mar 19 Tippett's oratorium "Child of Our Time", premieres in London

Mar 06 US planes bomb Berlin for the first time during WWII.

Mar 11 Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested

Mar 13 USSR recognizes Italian Badoglio government

Mar 01 U-358 sinks in Atlantic

Mar 19 German Army invades Hungary.

Mar 23 Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 meter without a parachute & lives

Mar 02 16th Academy Awards "Casablanca", Jennifer Jones &Paul Lukas win

Mar 07 HMCS Valleyfield torpedoed

Mar 01 The Canadian government ends meat rationing.

Mar 22 600+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Berlin

Mar 26 705 British bombers attack Essen

Mar 23 Bomb assassination against Southern Tirol congregation in Rome, 33 die

Mar 20 Mount Vesuvius, Italy explodes

Mar 25 RAF Sergeant Nickolas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber from 18,000 feet without a parachute

Mar 26 The birth of Diana Ross, American singer

Mar 24 In occupied Rome, Nazis executed more than 300 civilians

Mar 01 Massive strikes in Northern Italian towns

Mar 20 Bus falls off bridge into Passaic River NJ, killing 16

Mar 04 First US bombing of Berlin

Mar 02 Fumes from locomotive stalled in a tunnel suffocates 521 in Italy

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