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The following events occurred in March 1945:

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  • The Soviet 1st Belorussian Front took Küstrin.[14]
  • Santa Fe riot: Four internees at a Japanese internment camp near Santa Fe, New Mexico were seriously wounded after a scuffle broke out between internees and Border Patrol agents guarding the facility that resulted in the use of tear gas and batons.
  • Benito Mussolini escaped injury when an Allied fighter plane strafed his convoy of cars near Lake Garda.[12]
  • German submarine U-260 struck a mine and was scuttled south of Ireland.
  • Died: Friedrich Fromm, 56, German army officer (executed by the Nazis by firing squad for failing to act against the 20 July bomb plot)

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  • An air battle was fought in the skies over Berlin when 1,329 Allied bombers and 700 long-range fighters were met by the Luftwaffe using the new Me 262s and air-to-air rockets. The U.S. Eighth Air Force lost six Mustangs and 13 bombers while the Luftwaffe only lost two planes in return despite being outnumbered 32 to 1. However, the Allies still dropped 3,000 tons of bombs in the heaviest daylight raid on Berlin of the war.[7][26]
  • The Battle of Kolberg ended in Soviet and Polish victory.
  • The Battle of the Ligurian Sea was fought between British and German naval forces in the Gulf of Genoa. The Germans lost two torpedo boats and had a destroyer damaged while the British took light damage to one destroyer in return.
  • The Battle of the Visayas began in the Philippines.
  • All schools and universities in Tokyo were closed and everyone over the age of six was ordered to do war work.[18]
  • German submarine U-866 was depth charged and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by American destroyer escorts.
  • Two days of parliamentary elections concluded in Finland. The Social Democratic Party of Finland lost 35 seats but maintained a one-seat plurality over the new Finnish People's Democratic League.

March 19, 1945 (Monday) edit

  • The aircraft carrier USS Franklin was bombed and heavily damaged off the Japanese mainland by Japanese aircraft, killing more than 800 crew.
  • Hitler issued the Nero Decree, ordering the destruction of German infrastructure to prevent their use by Allied forces. Albert Speer and the army chiefs strongly resisted this and conspired to delay the order's implementation.[15]
  • All remaining U-boats in the Baltic Sea were withdrawn and transferred to the west.[27]
  • The Battle of Bacsil Ridge was fought between Japanese and Filipino forces, resulting in Filipino victory.
  • In Burma, the 19th Indian Division captured Mandalay while the British 36th Division took Mogok.[17]
  • The Soviet Union notified Turkey that their non-aggression pact signed in 1925 would not be renewed after it expired in November.[27] Turkey responded by rejecting Soviet demands for territorial concessions and a revision of the Montreux Convention.[28]

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  • The Japanese deployed the first Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka suicide aircraft, slung under 16 Betty bombers that were part of a group sent to attack the American fleet off Okinawa. The flight was a disaster for the Japanese when the group was intercepted by American fighters a full 60 miles (97 km) from the American task force, and all the bombers were shot down. American pilots noted that the Bettys were flying unusually slow and carrying an unusual payload, but the significance of this was not realized at the time.[30]
  • The Battle of West Henan–North Hubei began as part of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
  • British aircraft executed Operation Carthage, an air raid on Copenhagen, Denmark. The Danish headquarters of the Gestapo was destroyed but a nearby boarding school was also hit and the raid caused a total of 125 civilian deaths.
  • The Allies executed Operation Bowler, an air attack on Venice harbour.

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  • As part of Operation Plunder, American, British and Canadian troops carried out Operation Varsity, an airborne drop around Wesel, Germany.
  • It was reported from Cairo that archaeologists had located the ancient Egyptian city of Heliopolis.[31]
  • Billboard magazine revised its system for tabulating a chart of the leading songs in the United States with the creation of a new composite chart called the Honor Roll of Hits, combining best-selling retail records, records most played on the air and the most played jukebox records. "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" by Johnny Mercer was the first #1 of this new chart, which would exist until being supplanted by the creation of the Hot 100 in 1958.

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References edit

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  2. ^ a b c Doody, Richard. "A Timeline of Diplomatic Ruptures, Unannounced Invasions, Declarations of War, Armistices and Surrenders". The World at War. Retrieved March 28, 2016.
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  10. ^ "Die Kinder vom Kamper See" [The children from Lake Kamper]. Deutsche Welle (in German). 7 March 2012. from the original on 15 February 2022. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
  11. ^ a b c d . MusicAndHistory.com. Archived from the original on September 23, 2013. Retrieved March 28, 2016.
  12. ^ a b c Moseley, Ray (2004). Mussolini: The Last 600 Days of Il Duce. Taylor Trade Publishing. p. 372. ISBN 978-1-58979-095-7.
  13. ^ "Firebombing of Tokyo". History. A&E Networks. Retrieved March 28, 2016.
  14. ^ a b "Conflict Timeline, March 4-13 1945". OnWar.com. Retrieved March 28, 2016.
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  18. ^ a b c Mercer, Derrik, ed. (1989). Chronicle of the 20th Century. London: Chronicle Communications Ltd. p. 618. ISBN 978-0-582-03919-3.
  19. ^ Georg, Friedrich (2003). Hitler's Miracle Weapons, Volume I - The Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine. Helion & Co Ltd. p. 48. ISBN 978-1-874622-91-8.
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  29. ^ a b "War Diary for Tuesday, 20 March 1945". Stone & Stone Books. Retrieved March 28, 2016.
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  34. ^ "War Diary for Wednesday, 28 March 1945". Stone & Stone Books. Retrieved March 28, 2016.
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Anne and Margot Frank were given this date of death but their official death dates are unknown.

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4 The horror drama film The Picture of Dorian Gray starring Albert Lewin George Sanders and Hurd Hatfield premiered in New York City Born Dirk Benedict actor in Helena MontanaMarch 2 1945 Friday editThe U S Ninth Army captured Neuss while the Third Army took Trier 5 U S ships and warplanes bombarded the Ryuku Islands for 48 hours 6 German submarine U 3519 struck a mine and sank in the Baltic Sea Died Emily Carr 73 Canadian painter and writerMarch 3 1945 Saturday editThe Battle of Manila ended in Allied victory The Germans began Operation Gisela an aerial intruder operation Finland declared war on Germany retroactive to September 15 1944 2 In the Pawlokoma massacre a few hundred Ukrainians were murdered by Poles in the village of Pawlokoma in what was believed to be an act of retaliation for an earlier alleged murder of Poles by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army Died Aleksandra Samusenko 22 or 23 Soviet tank commander crushed under a tank in the dark March 4 1945 Sunday editOperation Gisela ended in German failure The Battle of Kolberg began for the city of Kolobrzeg in German Pomerania Bombings of Switzerland in World War II Allied aircraft accidentally bombed Basel and Zurich 7 German submarine U 3508 was bombed and sunk at Wilhelmshaven in an Allied air raid Born Dieter Meier musician and conceptual artist in Zurich Switzerland Tommy Svensson footballer and manager in Vaxjo Sweden Gary Williams college basketball coach in Collingswood New Jersey Died Lucille La Verne 72 American actress Mark Sandrich 44 American filmmakerMarch 5 1945 Monday editThe Wehrmacht began calling up 15 and 16 year old boys 8 Advance elements of the U S First Army entered Cologne 9 The 19th Army of the Soviet 2nd Belorussian Front captured Koslin 8 The 1945 Resko Przymorskie Dornier Do 24 crash in Kepa Pomeranian Voivodeship 10 Died Rupert Downes 60 and George Alan Vasey 49 Australian generals plane crash near Cairns Albert Richards 25 British war artist jeep drove over a landmine March 6 1945 Tuesday editGerman forces on the Eastern Front launched Operation Spring Awakening the last major German offensive of the war At Soviet insistence King Michael of Romania installed Petru Groza as Prime Minister of Romania 11 Soviet authorities began to arrest or kill anyone associated with the Polish Home Army or the Polish government in exile in London 11 The Chinese 1st Army captured Lashio Burma 9 Died Harry O Neill 27 American baseball player and one of only two major leaguers killed in action during WWII shot by a sniper on Iwo Jima March 7 1945 Wednesday editThe Battle of Remagen began in Remagen Germany Romania declared war on Japan 2 German submarine U 1302 was depth charged and sunk in St George s Channel by the Canadian frigates Strathadam and Thetford Mines Born Arthur Lee drummer pianist and singer Love in Memphis Tennessee d 2006 March 8 1945 Thursday editCanadian forces took Xanten Germany 11 A German force from the Channel Islands carried out the overnight Granville Raid landing in France and bringing supplies back to base Operation Sunrise Waffen SS General Karl Wolff secretly met American OSS head Allen Dulles in Lucerne to open the first concrete discussions of a surrender of German forces in northern Italy 12 Born Jim Chapman business leader and congressman in Washington D C Micky Dolenz actor musician and member of The Monkees in Los Angeles California Anselm Kiefer painter and sculptor in Donaueschingen Germany Died Frederick Bligh Bond 80 English architect illustrator archaeologist and psychical researcherMarch 9 1945 Friday editU S warplanes began a 48 hour firebombing of Tokyo that destroyed almost 16 square miles in and around the city and killed between 80 000 and 130 000 civilians 13 Units of the U S First Army captured Bonn and Godesburg 14 The Japanese coup d etat in French Indochina occurred Italian Fascist soldiers carried out the Salussola massacre executing 20 Italian Partisans Benito Mussolini sent a priest to Switzerland to make a proposal to a Vatican envoy that Italy and Germany join with the Allies to defeat Soviet communism The proposal was not treated seriously 12 U S Congress passed the McCarran Ferguson Act exempting the business of insurance from most federal regulation Born Katja Ebstein singer in Girlachsdorf Germany now Gniewkow Poland Dennis Rader serial killer in Pittsburg KansasMarch 10 1945 Saturday editThe Battle of Wide Bay was fought resulting in Allied victory when Australian troops landed at Wide Bay Papua New Guinea with the objective of isolating Japanese forces to the Gazelle Peninsula The last German forces west of the Rhine withdrew 15 German submarine U 275 struck a mine and sank off Newhaven East Sussex German submarine U 681 was depth charged and sunk west of the Isles of Scilly by a Consolidated B 24 Liberator aircraft of the U S Navy Died Emile Lemonnier 51 French general executed by the Japanese March 11 1945 Sunday editThe Royal Air Force sent 1 079 aircraft to bomb Essen and effectively destroyed the city with 4 700 tons of bombs 15 16 The Battle of Kiauneliskis began between Lithuanian partisans and Soviet forces The British 36th Division in Burma captured Mongmit 17 Albert Kesselring replaced Gerd von Rundstedt as Oberbefehlshaber West 18 Adolf Hitler paid his final visit to the front when he traveled to Bad Freienwalde on the Oder In a meeting at the Schloss Freienwalde with 9th Army commander Theodor Busse Hitler implored his officers to hold back the Russians long enough until his new weapons were ready but he did not disclose what the new weapon was 15 19 German submarine U 682 was destroyed at Hamburg in an American air raid Born Dock Ellis baseball player in Los Angeles California d 2008 March 12 1945 Monday editThe Soviet 1st Belorussian Front took Kustrin 14 Santa Fe riot Four internees at a Japanese internment camp near Santa Fe New Mexico were seriously wounded after a scuffle broke out between internees and Border Patrol agents guarding the facility that resulted in the use of tear gas and batons Benito Mussolini escaped injury when an Allied fighter plane strafed his convoy of cars near Lake Garda 12 German submarine U 260 struck a mine and was scuttled south of Ireland Died Friedrich Fromm 56 German army officer executed by the Nazis by firing squad for failing to act against the 20 July bomb plot March 13 1945 Tuesday editThe Battle of Kiauneliskis ended with the destruction of the Lithuanian partisan bunkers Born Anatoly Fomenko mathematician in Stalino USSR Ukrainian SSRMarch 14 1945 Wednesday editThe Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front took Zvolen 20 German submarine U 714 was depth charged and sunk off Eyemouth Berwickshire by South African frigate Natal and British destroyer Wivern German submarine U 1021 struck a mine and sank in the Bristol Channel March 15 1945 Thursday editThe Red Army launched the Upper Silesian Offensive Operation Spring Awakening ended in German failure Juan Jose Arevalo became 24th President of Guatemala EC Comics published its first comic book the concluding half of a biography of Jesus called Picture Stories from the Bible The first issue of the series had been published by DC Comics 21 22 March 16 1945 Friday editGerman submarine U 367 struck a mine and sank northeast of Danzig President Roosevelt said at a news conference that as a matter of decency Americans would have to tighten their belts so food could be shipped to war ravaged countries to keep people from starving 23 The Air Technical Services Command of the United States Army Air Forces signed a contract with Bell Aircraft for the construction of three experimental aircraft to explore transonic research issues ultimately designated the Bell X 1 24 Died Borries von Munchhausen 70 German poet and Nazi activist suicide by overdose of sleeping pills March 17 1945 Saturday editFirebombing of Kobe destroys 21 of Kobe s urban area with 8 841 residents The Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine at Remagen collapsed and killed 25 American engineers although the First U S Army had already constructed other crossings 11 25 The Kriegsmarine completed the evacuation of 75 000 civilians and soldiers from the Kolberg pocket overnight 25 Born Elis Regina singer in Porto Alegre Brazil d 1982 March 18 1945 Sunday editAn air battle was fought in the skies over Berlin when 1 329 Allied bombers and 700 long range fighters were met by the Luftwaffe using the new Me 262s and air to air rockets The U S Eighth Air Force lost six Mustangs and 13 bombers while the Luftwaffe only lost two planes in return despite being outnumbered 32 to 1 However the Allies still dropped 3 000 tons of bombs in the heaviest daylight raid on Berlin of the war 7 26 The Battle of Kolberg ended in Soviet and Polish victory The Battle of the Ligurian Sea was fought between British and German naval forces in the Gulf of Genoa The Germans lost two torpedo boats and had a destroyer damaged while the British took light damage to one destroyer in return The Battle of the Visayas began in the Philippines All schools and universities in Tokyo were closed and everyone over the age of six was ordered to do war work 18 German submarine U 866 was depth charged and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by American destroyer escorts Two days of parliamentary elections concluded in Finland The Social Democratic Party of Finland lost 35 seats but maintained a one seat plurality over the new Finnish People s Democratic League March 19 1945 Monday editThe aircraft carrier USS Franklin was bombed and heavily damaged off the Japanese mainland by Japanese aircraft killing more than 800 crew Hitler issued the Nero Decree ordering the destruction of German infrastructure to prevent their use by Allied forces Albert Speer and the army chiefs strongly resisted this and conspired to delay the order s implementation 15 All remaining U boats in the Baltic Sea were withdrawn and transferred to the west 27 The Battle of Bacsil Ridge was fought between Japanese and Filipino forces resulting in Filipino victory In Burma the 19th Indian Division captured Mandalay while the British 36th Division took Mogok 17 The Soviet Union notified Turkey that their non aggression pact signed in 1925 would not be renewed after it expired in November 27 Turkey responded by rejecting Soviet demands for territorial concessions and a revision of the Montreux Convention 28 March 20 1945 Tuesday editThe U S Seventh Army captured Saarbrucken 29 Hitler made his final public appearance awarding medals to Hitler Youth soldiers 29 The Arnsberg Forest massacre begins Australian forces carried out Operation Platypus in which troops from Z Special Unit were inserted into the Balikpapan area of Borneo to gather information and organize locals for resistance against the Japanese France signed an economic pact with Belgium the Netherlands and Luxembourg 18 Gotthard Heinrici replaced Heinrich Himmler as commander of Army Group Vistula 15 Born Jay Ingram author and broadcaster in Canada Bobby Jameson singer and songwriter in Geneva Illinois d 2015 Pat Riley basketball player coach and executive in Rome New York Died Lord Alfred Douglas 74 English author poet and translatorMarch 21 1945 Wednesday editThe Japanese deployed the first Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka suicide aircraft slung under 16 Betty bombers that were part of a group sent to attack the American fleet off Okinawa The flight was a disaster for the Japanese when the group was intercepted by American fighters a full 60 miles 97 km from the American task force and all the bombers were shot down American pilots noted that the Bettys were flying unusually slow and carrying an unusual payload but the significance of this was not realized at the time 30 The Battle of West Henan North Hubei began as part of the Second Sino Japanese War British aircraft executed Operation Carthage an air raid on Copenhagen Denmark The Danish headquarters of the Gestapo was destroyed but a nearby boarding school was also hit and the raid caused a total of 125 civilian deaths The Allies executed Operation Bowler an air attack on Venice harbour March 22 1945 Thursday editThe Western Allied invasion of Germany began The Arab League was established The romantic comedy film Without Love starring Spencer Tracy Katharine Hepburn and Lucille Ball premiered in New York The stage musical The Firebrand of Florence with music by Kurt Weill lyrics by Ira Gershwin and book by Edwin Justus Mayer and Gershwin premiered at the Alvin Theatre on Broadway Died Eliyahu Bet Zuri 23 and Eliyahu Hakim 20 members of the Lehi Jewish paramilitary group executed for the 1944 assassination of Lord Moyne Enrico Caviglia 82 Italian Army officer John Hessin Clarke 87 Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1916 to 1922March 23 1945 Friday editAdolf Hitler approved a formal withdrawal across the Rhine but by that time all German forces who were going to make it back had already gone 4 At night the Western Allies began Operation Plunder the crossing of the Rhine The last Massacre in Arnsberg Forest ends U S and Filipino troops captured San Fernando on Luzon 15 The Indian 20th Infantry Division took Wundwin Burma 17 Born Franco Battiato Italian singer and songwriter in Ionia Italy d 2021 Died Elisabeth de Rothschild 43 member by marriage of the Rothschild family died in Ravensbruck concentration camp March 24 1945 Saturday editAs part of Operation Plunder American British and Canadian troops carried out Operation Varsity an airborne drop around Wesel Germany It was reported from Cairo that archaeologists had located the ancient Egyptian city of Heliopolis 31 Billboard magazine revised its system for tabulating a chart of the leading songs in the United States with the creation of a new composite chart called the Honor Roll of Hits combining best selling retail records records most played on the air and the most played jukebox records Ac Cent Tchu Ate the Positive by Johnny Mercer was the first 1 of this new chart which would exist until being supplanted by the creation of the Hot 100 in 1958 March 25 1945 Sunday editThe Battle of Remagen ended in Allied victory The Red Army began the Bratislava Brno Offensive in Slovakia Winston Churchill accompanied by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery briefly crossed the Rhine near Wesel in an Allied landing craft symbolizing the crossing of the top British leader over the traditional frontier of Germany that no foreign army had crossed since the age of Napoleon The excursion which ventured as far as a bridge still under enemy fire was quite dangerous and General Eisenhower later noted that if he had been there he never would have allowed Churchill to cross the river at that time 32 Died Franz Oppenhoff 42 German lawyer and Mayor of the city of Aachen assassinated on the order of Heinrich Himmler William H Rupertus 55 American major general and author of the Rifleman s Creed heart attack March 26 1945 Monday editThe Battle of Iwo Jima ended in American victory Japanese general Tadamichi Kuribayashi is believed to have died on or around this date probably killed in action The Battle for Cebu City began in the Philippines American destroyer USS Halligan was lost to a mine off Okinawa The ship was abandoned and ran aground on Tokashiki the following day German submarine U 399 was depth charged and sunk off Land s End by British frigate Duckworth The U S Supreme Court decided United States v Willow River Power Co Born Mikhail Voronin gymnast in Moscow USSR d 2004 Died David Lloyd George 82 British Liberal politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 Tadamichi Kuribayashi 53 Japanese general believed to have been killed in action on this date on Iwo Jima although his body was never identified Boris Shaposhnikov 62 Soviet military commanderMarch 27 1945 Tuesday editThe Germans fired their last V 2 rockets from their only remaining launch site in the Netherlands Almost 200 civilians in England and Belgium were killed in this final attack 33 Argentina declared war on Germany and Japan 28 German submarine U 722 was depth charged and sunk west of Scotland by British frigates Oklahoma A amp M defeated NYU 49 45 in the championship game of the NCAA Men s Division I Basketball Tournament played at Madison Square Garden in New York City Died Karl Bulowius 55 German military officer committed suicide in a POW camp Halid Ziya Usakligil 78 or 79 Turkish author poet and playwrightMarch 28 1945 Wednesday editThe Soviet 3rd Belorussian Front captured the medieval castle of Balga and completed the destruction of the German 4th Army except for those who had managed to evacuate 34 The U S 80th Infantry Division captured Wiesbaden 35 The Battle of Slater s Knoll began between Australian and Japanese forces on Bougainville Island Hitler sacked Heinz Guderian as Chief of the OKH General Staff the last battlefield commander from the early days of the war still active Guderian was replaced with Hans Krebs The American submarine Trigger was sunk by Japanese vessels in the East China Sea Born Rodrigo Duterte 16th President of the Philippines in Maasin Southern Leyte March 29 1945 Thursday editThe battle of the Heiligenbeil Pocket ended in Soviet victory The Deutsch Schutzen massacre occurred when approximately 60 Jewish forced laborers were killed in Deutsch Schutzen Eisenberg Austria Born Walt Frazier basketball player in Atlanta Georgia Willem Ruis game show presenter in Haarlem Netherlands d 1986 Died Ferenc Csik 31 Hungarian swimmer killed in Sopron during an Allied air raid March 30 1945 Friday editThe Battle of Lijevce Field began near Banja Luka between Croatian and Chetnik forces The 2nd Shock Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front captured Danzig 36 Born Eric Clapton rock and blues guitarist singer and songwriter in Ripley Surrey England Ron Garvin professional wrestler in Montreal Quebec Canada Died Elise Rivet 55 Algerian born nun killed in Ravensbruck concentration camp Maurice Rose 45 U S Army general killed in action near Paderborn Germany March 31 1945 Saturday editThe Upper Silesian Offensive ended in Soviet victory Japanese submarine I 8 was sunk off Okinawa by American destroyers Morrison and Stockton My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time by Les Brown topped the Billboard singles charts Born Gabe Kaplan comedian actor and professional poker player in Brooklyn New York Died Harriet Boyd Hawes 73 American archaeologist Hans Fischer 63 German organic chemist and Nobel laureate Torgny Segerstedt 68 Swedish scholar and newspaper editorReferences edit Address to Congress on Yalta Miller Center of Public Affairs Archived from the original on March 17 2016 Retrieved March 28 2016 a b c Doody Richard A Timeline of Diplomatic Ruptures Unannounced Invasions Declarations of War Armistices and Surrenders The World at War Retrieved March 28 2016 War Diary for Thursday 1 March 1945 Stone amp Stone Books Retrieved March 28 2016 a b Ford Ken 2000 The Rhineland 1945 The Last 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