Mar 23 Premier Winston Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Straelen

Mar 30 289 anti-fascists murdered by Nazis in Rombergpark Dortmund

Mar 06 Chinese 38th division occupies Lashio

Mar 19 Adolf Hitler issues Nero Decree destruction of German facilities

Mar 01 Fieldmarshal Kesselring succeeds von Rundstedt as commander

Mar 22 US 3rd Army crosses Rhine at Nierstein

Mar 07 Cologne taken by allied armies

Mar 31 Sicherheitsdienst murders 10 political prisoners in Zutphen

Mar 10 US troops lands on Mindanao

Mar 05 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Gretchen Merrill

Mar 18 1,250 US bombers attacks Berlin

Mar 13 Sicherheitsdienst arrest Dutch resistance fighter Henry Werkman

Mar 21 The first Japanese flying bombs (ochas) attack Okinawa

Mar 07 German General Keitel repeats surrender signing in Berlin for the benefit of the Russians; WWII ends in Europe

Mar 22 Arab League formed by seven Middle East countries

Mar 26 Kamikazes attack US battle fleet near Kerama Retto

Mar 03 US & Philippine forces recaptures Corregidor

Mar 18 US Task Force 58 attacks targets on Kiushu

Mar 26 US 7th Army crosses Rhine at Worms

Mar 07 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Hersey (Bell for Adano)

Mar 25 US first army breaks out bridgehead near Remagen

Mar 03 Roermond/Venlo Netherlands, freed

Mar 01 US infantry regiment captures Mönchengladbach

Mar 07 The Commanding Officer, CGAS Floyd Bennett Field reported that a dunking sonar suspended from an XHOS-1 helicopter had been tested successfully.

Mar 14 The heaviest bomb of World War II, the 9,988kg "Grand Slam", is dropped by the RAF's Dambuster Squadron on the Bielefeld railway viaduct in Germany.

Mar 19 US Task Force 58 attacks ships near Kobe/Kure

Mar 16 US defeats Japan at Iwo Jima

Mar 24 General Eisenhower, Montgomery &Bradley discuss advance in Germany

Mar 06 Erich Honnecker &Erich Hanke flee Nazis

Mar 22 Arab League forms with adoption of a charter in Cairo Egypt

Mar 03 RAF bombing error hits The Hague killing 511

Mar 07 Yugoslavia government of Tito forms

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

Mar 26 Japanese resistance ends on Iwo Jima

Mar 24 Cpl. Frederick G. Topham (1st Cdn. Parachute Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Diersfordt Wood, Germany

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