RAF bomb cuts railway link of Hannover-Hamm.
Event Type: Key Events of WW II
1944-03-15
Allied bombers again raided German-held Italian town of Monte Cassino.
1943-03-15
Allied reconnaissance flight over Java. Red Army evacuates Kharkov.
1943-03-14
Kraków Ghetto is “liquidated”.
1945-03-13
Queen Wilhelmina returns to Netherlands. Nazi Sicherheitsdienst arrests Dutch resistance fighter Henry Werkman.
1944-03-13
USSR recognizes Badoglio government of Italy.
1943-03-13
Baseball approves official ball (with cork & rubber substitute balata). Failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight. Frank Dixon wins Knights of Columbus mile (4:09.6)
1942-03-13
Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman Colonel in US Army.
1945-03-12
Nazi occupiers execute 30 Amsterdammers. Italy’s Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy. New York is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race & creed in employment. USSR returns Transylvania [ … ]
1943-03-12
Soviet troops liberate Wjasma (Vyazma), Russia.
1942-03-12
British troops vacate the Andaman Isalnds in Gulf of Bengal.
1945-03-11
Some 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, Germany with 4,662 bombs. Flemish Nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death.
1944-03-11
Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested.
1943-03-11
Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands.
1942-03-11
The 1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschwitz Concentration Camp. As Japanese forces continued to advance in the Pacific, U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia where [ … ]