USS Hornet with Jimmy Doolittle’s B-25 bombers departs from San Francisco. Glenn Miller and his Orchestra recorded “American Patrol” at the RCA Victor studios in Hollywood.
Event Type: Key Events of WW II
1945-04-01
The 1st edition of Indonesia Merdeka published. Canadian troops free Doetinchem, Enschede, Borculo & Eibergen, Netherlands. Ruhrgebied (Ruhr), Germany sealed off by U.S. 1st & 9th Armies. U.S. forces launched the amphibious invasion of Okinawa, [ … ]
1944-04-01
Japanese troops capture Jessami, Eastern India.
1942-04-01
Allied air raid on harbor city Kupang, Timor. Mexico changes from 3 time zones to 2.
1945-03-31
The 3rd Algerian Infantry Division of the Army of Africa crosses the Rhine.
1944-03-31
Hungary orders all Jews to wear yellow stars.
1943-03-31
U.S. errantly bombs Rotterdam, Netherlands killing 326 people. “Oklahoma!”, the first musical play by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, opened on Broadway in NYC.
1945-03-30
Some 289 anti-fascists murdered by Nazis in Rombergpark Dortmund, Germany. The Soviet Union invaded Austria with the goal of taking Vienna, which it accomplished two weeks later. A defecting German pilot delivers a [ … ]
1944-03-30
Some 781 British bombers attack Nuremberg, Germany.
1943-03-30
British 1st Army recaptures Sejenane, Tunisia. 5th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: University of Wyoming beats Georgetown 46-34.
1942-03-30
The 1st Reich Main Security Office (RSHA)-transport from France arrives in camp Birkenau. Nazi SS murder 200 inmates of Trawniki, Poland concentration camp.
1945-03-29
Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England. Movie star Jimmy Stewart is promoted to full colonel, one of the few Americans to rise from private to colonel in [ … ]
1943-03-29
Rationing of meat, fats, butter & cheese begins, limiting consumers to store purchases of an average of about two pounds a week for beef, pork, lamb and mutton using a coupon [ … ]
1942-03-29
British cruiser HMS Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea. British destroyer HMS Campbeltown’s planned explosion in St. Nazaire, France killed about 400 Germans. German submarine U-585 sinks. The bombing of Lübeck [ … ]
1945-03-28
Last German V-1 (buzz bomb) attack on London.