Portal:World War II/Selected anniversaries/March
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- 1941 - Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact thus joining the Axis powers.
- 1943 - The Battle of the Bismarck Sea begins.
- 1941 - First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joined the Axis Pact.
- 1943 - Battle of the Bismarck Sea - United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships.
- 1942 - Ten Japanese warplanes raid the town of Broome, Western Australia killing more than 100 people.
- 1943 - In London, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station.
- 1945 - Previously neutral Finland declares war on the Axis powers.
- 1941 - The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands.
- 1941 - Adolf Hitler applies pressure on Yugoslavia to join the Tripartite Pact.
- 1944 - First U.S. daylight bombing of Berlin and Anti-Germany strikes in northern Italy.
- 1945 - In the United Kingdom, Princess Elizabeth, later to become Queen Elizabeth II, joins the British Army as a driver.
- 1940 - Members of Soviet politbiuro sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish Prisoners of War, known also as the Katyn massacre.
- 1943 - First flight of the Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom.
- 1945 - The Battle of the Ruhr begins.
- 1940 - An armistice is signed by Finland and the Soviet Union, ending the Winter War.
- 1945 - A communist-dominated government under Petru Groza assumes power in Romania.
- 1936 - In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland, the first of several steps towards war.
- 1945 - American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany and begin to cross.
- 1947 - The Kuomintang and Communist Party of China resume full-fledged Civil War; internal struggles had been set aside in order to fend off Japanese incursions.
- 1942 - The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java.
- 1942 - Japan captures Rangoon, Burma.
- 1943 - Japanese troops counter-attack against American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that will last five days.
- 1935 - Adolf Hitler announces the creation of a new air force, a violation of the Versailles Treaty.
- 1945 - American B-29 bombers attack Tokyo, Japan with incendiary bombs. The resulting fire storm kills over 100,000 people.
Portal:World War II/Selected anniversaries/March 10
March 11th
- 1941 - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
- 1942 - General Douglas MacArthur abandons Corregidor.
- 1945 - The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2.
- 1943 - In Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700.
- 1939 - German troops fully occupy the Czechoslovak provinces of Bohemia and Moravia.
- 1943 - The Kraków Ghetto is 'liquidated'.
- 1939 - Nazi troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and * Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.
- 1943 - Third Battle of Kharkov - the Germans retook the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.
- 1944 - Battle of Monte Cassino - Allied aircraft bomb the Nazi-held monastery and stage an assault.
- 1939 - From Prague Castle Hitler proclaimed Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.
- 1942 - First V-2 rocket test launch (exploded at liftoff).
- 1945 - The Battle of Iwo Jima ends but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist.
- 1945 - Würzburg, Germany is 90% destroyed, with 5,000 dead, in only 20 minutes by British bombers.
- 1940 - Axis Powers - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom.
- 1945 - 1,250 American bombers attack Berlin.
- 1941 - The 99th Pursuit Squadron also known as the Tuskegee Airmen, the first all-black unit of the Army Air Corp, is activated.
- 1944 - Nazi forces occupy Hungary.
- 1945 - Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing 800 of her crew and crippling the ship.
- 1945 - Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany be destroyed.
- 1942 - In Zgierz, Poland, 100 Poles are taken from a labor camp and shot by the Germans.
- 1942 - In Rohatyn, western Ukraine, on Friday, German SS murder 3000 Jews, including 600 Jewish children, annihalating 70 % of Rohatyn's Jewish ghetto. The entire action took one day, from early morning to five o'clock in the evening.
- 1942 - General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".
- 1943 - Massacre of the town of Kalavryta, Greece by German Nazi troops.
- 1945 - British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma.
- 1939 - Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.
- 1942 - In the Mediterranean Sea, Britain's Royal Navy thwarts Italy's Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte.
- 1943 - The entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by German occupation forces.
- 1933 - The Reichstag passes the Enabling act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
- 1942 - In the Indian Ocean, Japanese forces capture the Andaman Islands.
- 1944 - German troops kill 335 Italian civilians in the Ardeatine Massacre in Rome.
- 1944 - In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 prisoners begin breaking out of Stalag Luft III.
- 1941 - Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact.
- 1942 - In Poland, Auschwitz receives its first female prisoners.
- 1943 - Battle of the Komandorski Islands - In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
- 1945 - The third and final Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima.
- 1941 - Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-axis government in a bloodless coup.
- 1942 - United Kingdom forces raid the U-boat base at St. Nazaire, France.
- 1945 - Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins.
- 1941 - Battle of Cape Matapan - In the Mediterranean Sea, British Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham leads the Royal Navy in the destruction of three major Italian battleships and two destroyers.
- 1942 - In occupied France, British naval forces raid the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire.
- 1936 - In Germany, dictator Adolf Hitler receives 99% of the votes in a referendum to ratify Germany's illegal reoccupation of the Rhineland, receiving 44.5 million votes out of 45.5 million registered voters. In 1933 all political parties and political liberty had been abolished.
- 1941 - British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces intercept those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesus coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan.
- 1942 - The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II was the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city.
- 1945 - Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England.
- 1945 - Soviet Union forces invade Austria and take Vienna, Polish and Soviet forces liberate Gdańsk.
- 1945 - A defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1 to Americans.
- 1942 - Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.
- 1942 - In Ivano-Frankivsk (then called Stanislawow), western Ukraine the German Gestapo organise the first deportation of 5,000 Jews from Stanislawow ghetto to Belzec death camp. It was one of the biggest transports to Belzec in the first phase of the camp.
- 1944 - Japanese Navy Marshal Mineichi Koga dies in the performance of job in the Navy Second Incident.
