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31 March 31, 1945 (Saturday) ... Bombings of Switzerland in World War II: Allied aircraft accidentally bombed Basel and Zürich. [7] ... [31] Billboard magazine ...
30–31 March 1945: ... ambush outside of Paderborn on March 30. He was the highest ranking US General to be killed in action on the Western Front of World War II. [1 ...
The Battle of Christmas Island was a small engagement which began on 31 March 1942, during World War II.Assisted by a mutiny of soldiers of the British Indian Army against their British officers, Imperial Japanese Army troops were able to occupy Christmas Island without any land-based resistance.
The following events occurred in March 1943: . March 13, 1943: Liquidation completed of 10,000 Jews from Krakow Ghetto March 1, 1943: First war ration point tokens issued by U.S. government [1] March 2–4, 1943: U.S. and Australian forces sink 12 Japanese Navy ships in battle at Bismarck Sea March 27, 1943: U.S. War Department announces the existence of the first rocket-launcher weapon, the ...
Operation Supercharge II was planned to start on the afternoon of 26 March, with a preliminary operation on the night of 25/26 March to capture Height 184. The New Zealand Corps was to attack into the Tebaga Gap on a two-brigade front and capture the Axis defences from Djebel Tebaga to Djebel Melab, which would be exploited by the 1st Armoured ...
The Battles of Rzhev (Russian: Ржевская битва, romanized: Rzhevskaya bitva) were a series of Red Army offensives against the Wehrmacht between 8 January 1942 and 31 March 1943, on the Eastern Front of World War II.
The "Forgotten Bombardment" by Mathieu Ficheroux.The sculpture, commemorating the Allied bombing of Rotterdam on 31 March 1943, was unveiled in 1993. During the German occupation of the Netherlands between 1940 and 1945, during the Second World War, Allied air forces carried out a number of operations over Rotterdam and the surrounding region.
March 14–15: Under German pressure, the Slovaks declare their independence and form a Slovak Republic. The Germans occupy the dismantled Czech lands in violation of the Munich agreement and form the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. March 31: France and Great Britain guarantee the integrity of the borders of the Polish state.