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6 March 1944 USAAF A maximum effort raid by 730 (504 B-17s and 226 B-24s) bombers and 800 fighters. [66] 69 US bombers were lost. 11 North American P-51 Mustangs were also lost. [65] The Bomber loss rate stood at 10.2 percent. The Luftwaffe lost 64 fighters, including 16 Bf 110 and Me 410 heavy fighters. [67] 8 March 1944 USAAF
March 8, 1944 (Wednesday) The Battle of Imphal began in northeast India. The British government announced plans to build 300,000 houses after the war. [13]
On March 8, 1944, Rosenthal's crew, nicknamed Rosie's Riveters, completed their 25-mission combat tour, although the B-17F (s/n 42-30758) that they usually flew bearing the same name was shot down while being flown by a different crew during the February 4, 1944, mission to Frankfurt, Germany. The crew returned to the United States, but ...
The Deportation of the Balkars was the expulsion by the Soviet government of the entire Balkar population of the North Caucasus to Central Asia on March 8, 1944, during World War II. The expulsion was ordered by NKVD chief Lavrentiy Beria after approval by General Secretary Joseph Stalin. All the 37,713 Balkars of the Caucasus were deported ...
5: US planes bomb Singapore, the first of 11 such raids between November 1944 and March 1945.: The aircraft carrier USS Lexington is heavily damaged by kamikaze attacks. 7: Election Day in the U.S.: Roosevelt wins an unprecedented, unrepeated fourth term as U.S. president. 9: General Patton's troops and tanks cross the Moselle River and ...
Night of 24/25 March 1944: Berlin was the main target. The bomber stream was scattered and those that reached the city bombed well out to the south-west of the Großstadt. The RAF lost 72 aircraft, 8.9 per cent of the force. [80] Night of 26/27 March 1944: Essen attacked by 476 Lancasters, 207 Halifaxes, 22 Mosquitos (705 aircraft). [81]
TBF ramp strike, 25 March 1944. 25 March Grumman TBF-1 Avenger, BuNo 24295, of VC-9, piloted by Lt.(jg) William Francis Chamberlain, [250] suffers a ramp strike coming aboard USS Solomons, during operations in the Atlantic while en route from NS Norfolk, Virginia, to Recife, Brazil. [251]
The 8th Parachute Battalion fought in Operation Tonga, the British airborne landings in France on D-Day, the Normandy Campaign, and the break out to the River Seine. Withdrawn to England in September 1944, the German winter offensive known as the Battle of the Bulge saw the battalion return to the continent.