Mar 19 800 killed as Kamikaze attacked USS Franklin off Japan

Mar 24 Operation Varsity British, US &Canadian airborne landings East of Rhine

Mar 26 Generals Eisenhower/Bradley/Patton attack at Remagen the Rhine

Mar 07 Branch Rickey announces formation of the US Negro Baseball League

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

Mar 12 Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy

Mar 14 RAF bomb cuts railway link Hannover-Hamm

Mar 25 US Northern Tractor Flotilla departs Ulithi to Okinawa

Mar 17 American forces defeat the Japanese at the battle of Iwo Jima

Mar 06 117 SD-prisoners executed at Savage Farm

Mar 04 Finland declares war on Nazi-Germany

Mar 23 British 7th Black Watch crosses the Rhine

Mar 09 Japanese proclaim the "independence" of Indo-China

Mar 14 During World War II, the 617 Dambuster Squadron of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) drops the heaviest bomb of the war on the Bielefeld railway viaduct in Germany. Known as the "Grand Slam," the 22,000-pound bomb, which was designed by Sir Barnes Wallis, is dropped from an Avro Lancaster flown by RAF Squadron Leader C.C. Calder

Mar 12 30 Amsterdammers executed by Nazi occupiers

Mar 27 General Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken

Mar 28 The last V2 German rocket of World War II falls on London

Mar 07 Germany signs an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Reheime, France (to take effect the next day), ending the European theatre of WWII

Mar 31 US artillery lands on Keise Shima/begins firing on Okinawa

Mar 31 3rd Algerian division crosses the Rhine

Mar 21 Dutch Resistance fighter Hannie Schaft arrested by Nazi police

Mar 27 Ella Fitzgerald & Delta Rhythm Boys record "It's Only a Paper Moon"

Mar 07 Nazi Generals Jodl & Von Friedenburg surrender

Mar 18 Maurice "Rocket" Richard becomes the first NHLer to score 50 goals

Mar 21 Bureau of Aeronautics initiates rocket-powered surface-to-air guided missile development by awarding contract to Fairchild

Mar 08 53 Amsterdammers executed by Nazi occupiers

Mar 17 HMCS Guysborough torpedoed in the Bay of Biscay

Mar 05 Allied troops converge on the Rhine.

Mar 06 The birth of Rob Reiner, American director

Mar 27 US 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden

Mar 09 334 US B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bomb

Mar 27 British premier Churchill sails to eastern banks of Rhine

Mar 08 Phyllis M Daley is first black nurse sworn-in as US Navy ensign

Mar 21 During WWII Allied bombers begin 4-day raid over Germany

Mar 11 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs

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