Mar 03 Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter

Mar 05 Generals Eisenhower, Patton & Patch meet in Luneville

Mar 06 Assassination attempt on Höhere, SS Police führer Rauter

Mar 15 Catholic University of Nijmegen reopens

Mar 01 Hitler orders the destruction of all Germany; it is unworthy of surviving him. His order mandates the destruction not only of military installations, but also of all stores, industries, and transportation and communication installations. Nothing is to fall into enemy hands.

Mar 05 US 7th Army Corps captures Cologne

Mar 03 US 7th Army occupies last part of Westwall

Mar 27 Iwo Jima occupied, after 22,000 Japanese & 6,000 US killed

Mar 13 Queen Wilhelmina returns to Netherlands

Mar 02 8th Air Force bombs Dresden

Mar 12 New York is the first to prohibit discrimination by race &creed in employment

Mar 15 17th Academy Awards: "Going my Way", Bing Cosby and Ingrid Bergman win

Mar 19 British 36th division conquers Mogok (ruby mine)

Mar 01 FDR announces success of Yalta Conference

Mar 10 Japan declares Vietnam Independence

Mar 24 US minesweepers reach Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa

Mar 26 Venray soccer team forms

Mar 10 Germany blows-up Wessel Bridge on Rhine

Mar 07 US 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen Germany, crosses Rhine

Mar 23 Carriers begin pre-assault strikes on Okinawa, kamikaze attacks follow

Mar 17 Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra

Mar 20 US 70th Infantry division/7th Armour division attack Saar

Mar 26 British premier Churchill looks over at the Rhine (near Ginsberg)

Mar 28 Last German V-1 (buzz bomb) attack on London

Mar 10 Tokyo on fire after night time B-29 bombing

Mar 12 The British Empire celebrates its first British Empire Day

Mar 07 SS open fire on crowd in Amsterdam, killing 22

Mar 31 Tennessee Williams' "Glass Menagerie", premieres in New York NY

Mar 15 Record album charts first published in the United States

Mar 07 Formal undertaking of complete German surrender

Mar 24 Largest one-day airborne drop, 600 transports &1300 gliders

Mar 02 King Michael of Romania gives in to Communist government

Mar 07 Princess Irene Brigade moves into the Hague Netherlands

Mar 10 Patton's 3rd Army makes contact with Hodge's first Army

Mar 07 Mauthausen Concentration Camp liberated

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