Battle at Medenine, North Africa: Rommel’s counterattack. Sukarno asks for cooperation with Japanese occupiers.
Event Type: Key Events of WW II
1945-03-05
Allies bomb The Hague, Netherlands. Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower, George Patton & Alexander Patch meet in Luneville, France. U.S. 7th Army Corps captures Cologne, Germany. U.S. Ladies Figure Skating Championship won [ … ]
1943-03-05
Anti-fascist strikes in Italy. RAF bombs Essen, Germany.
1942-03-05
Josip Broz Tito establishes the 3rd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia. Dmitri Shostakovitch’s 7th Symphony premieres in Siberia, Russia. Japanese troops march into Batavia, Dutch East Indies.
1945-03-04
Finland declares war on Nazi Germany. In the United Kingdom, Princess Elizabeth, (later Queen Elizabeth II), joins the British Auxiliary Transport Service as a driver.
1944-03-04
The U.S. bombs Berlin, Germany for the first time. Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy.
1943-03-04
Transport #50 departs with French Jews to Maidanek & Sobibor, Poland. 15th Academy Awards: “Mrs. Miniver” won 6 Academy Awards, including best actress for Greer Garson (whose 5 1/2-minute acceptance speech [ … ]
1945-03-03
U.S. & Philippine forces recapture Corregidor and fully secured the Philippine capital of Manila from Japanese forces. U.S. 7th Army occupies the last part of the Westwall (Siegfried Line). Winston Churchill [ … ]
1944-03-03
The 1st performance of Corporal Samuel Barber’s 2nd Symphony.
1943-03-03
The three-day Battle of the Bismarck Sea ends with the Australian and American Air Forces devastating a Japanese navy convoy. Bethnal Green Tube tragedy in London where 173 people were killed in a crush [ … ]
1942-03-03
The first combat flight for Canadian British-built Avro Lancaster bomber.
1945-03-02
U.S. 8th Air Force bombs Dresden, Germany. King Michael of Romania gives in to Communist government.
1944-03-02
16th Academy Awards: “Casablanca”, Jennifer Jones & Paul Lukas win. Fumes from a locomotive stalled in a tunnel suffocate 521 in Italy.
1943-03-02
The three-day Battle of the Bismarck Sea began in the southwest Pacific and U.S. and Australian warplanes were able to inflict heavy damage on an Imperial Japanese convoy. The 31st transport [ … ]
1944-06-28
The Republican National Convention in Chicago nominated New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey for President and Ohio Governor John W. Bricker for Vice-President.