Field Marshal Albert Kesselring succeeds Gerd von Rundstedt as commander of German Army Command in the West.  Germany blows up Wessel Bridge on Rhine.  Japan grants occupied Vietnam independence.  General George S. [ … ]

German submarine U-575 sinks British corvette HMS Asphodel in the Atlantic Ocean killing 92 of the 97 men aboard.

Some 334 U.S. B-29 Superfortresses began launching 120,000 incendiary fire bombs in attack against Tokyo, resulting in an estimated 100,000 deaths.  Japanese proclaim “independence” of Indo-China.

Delft, Netherland’s opposition group-Pahud de Mortanges overthrown.  Greek Jews of Salonika are transported to Nazi extermination camps.

Construction of the Alaska Highway began.

“Kiss Me Kate” opens in Britain.  53 Amsterdammers executed by Nazi occupiers.   International Women’s Day is 1st observed.  Phyllis M Daley is 1st black nurse sworn in as US Navy Ensign.

US resumes bombing Berlin.

A total of 335 Allied bombers attack the German city of Nuremberg, a center for military production.   Limited gambling legalized in Mexico.  U.S. Ladies’ Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill.  U.S. [ … ]

Japanese forces capture Rangoon, Burma.  KNIL, Dutch colonial army on Java, surrenders to Japanese army.  

Netherlands Nazi SS Police Chief Hans Rauter is injured in an attack on his car by the Dutch resistance.   Cologne, Germany taken by allied armies.  U.S. 9th Armored Division crossed the Rhine at Remagen Germany [ … ]

Japan begins offensive in Burma.

Major General George Patton arrives in Djebel Kouif, Tunisia.

Some 15 British Supermarine Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta.  The 1st cadets graduate from the Tuskegee Air Institute.

Some 117 SD-prisoners executed at Savage Farm.   Chinese 38th Division occupies Lashio, Burma.   Communists Erich Honnecker & Erich Hanke flee Nazis.   Federico Garcia Lorca’s “La Casa” premieres in Buenos Aires.  [ … ]

U.S. Air Force heavy bombers stage the first full-scale American raid on Berlin, Germany.