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The following events occurred in March 1944:

March 1, 1944 (Wednesday)

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March 2, 1944 (Thursday)

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March 3, 1944 (Friday)

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  • Joseph Stalin rejected British proposals to negotiate over the Polish-Soviet border.[6]
  • A night attack by the Japanese garrison on Los Negros was repulsed by the Americans.[5]
  • The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov military decorations were established in the Soviet Union.
  • On the Anzio’s beachhead, the 3rd Infantry Division repelled a German counter-attack in the locality of Ponte Rotto.
  • In Rome, a protest of women, demanding the release of their husbands detained in a German station, ended tragically. Teresa Gullace, seven months pregnant, was killed by a German soldier while she tried to pass a sandwich to her husband. The story was later reenacted in a famous episode of Rome open city.[7]

March 4, 1944 (Saturday)

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March 5, 1944 (Sunday)

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March 6, 1944 (Monday)

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  • American heavy bombers mounted the first-ever, full-scale daylight raid on Berlin.[11]
  • Soviet forces took Volochysk.[10]
  • Finland rejected a Soviet peace offer, objecting to the Soviet condition that all German troops in the country be interned and the 1940 borders be restored.[10]
  • German submarine U-744 was depth charged and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by Allied warships.
  • German submarine U-973 was depth charged and sunk in the Arctic Ocean by Fairey Swordfish of 816 Naval Air Squadron.
  • Born: Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano, in Gisborne, New Zealand; Mary Wilson, singer and founding member of the Supremes, in Greenville, Mississippi (d. 2021)

March 7, 1944 (Tuesday)

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March 8, 1944 (Wednesday)

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March 9, 1944 (Thursday)

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  • The U.S. 5th Marine Regiment took Talasea in New Britain unopposed.[14]
  • American destroyer escort Leopold was torpedoed and heavily damaged in the North Atlantic by German submarine U-255. The 28 survivors of the 191 crew were rescued and Leopold was abandoned to sink the next day.

March 10, 1944 (Friday)

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March 11, 1944 (Saturday)

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  • British forces took Buthidaung in Burma.[8]
  • German military officer Eberhard von Breitenbuch took a concealed pistol to a military briefing with Hitler at the Berghof with the intention of assassinating him. However, SS guards barred Breitenbuch from the room where Hitler met with higher-ranking officers and so the assassination attempt never went forward.[15]
  • Pierre Pucheu was sentenced to death.[8]
  • In Paris, police discovered casually, in the house of Dr. Marcel Petiot, the remains of at least ten bodies and a large amount of clothing. The doctor, who had killed and robbed dozens of people under the cover of his Resistance activity, managed to escape.
  • In Padua, the Church of the Eremitani was half-destroyed by an American bombing. The Ovetari chapel was razed to the ground and its frescoes, work by Andrea Mantegna, were forever lost.[16]
  • German submarines U-380 and U-410 were bombed and sunk at Toulon in an American air raid.
  • Born: Graham Lyle, musician and producer, in Bellshill, Scotland; Don Maclean, actor and comedian, in Birmingham, England
  • Died: Irvin S. Cobb, 67, American author and humorist

March 12, 1944 (Sunday)

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March 13, 1944 (Monday)

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  • The Soviet 28th Army captured Kherson.[19]
  • Italy and the Soviet Union restored diplomatic relations with one another.[8]
  • German submarine U-575 was depth charged and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by Allied ships and aircraft.
  • Japanese cruiser Tatsuta was torpedoed and sunk off Hachijō-jima by the American submarine Sand Lance.
  • Died: Lev Shestakov, 38, Russian fighter ace (missing in action on the Eastern Front)

March 14, 1944 (Tuesday)

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March 15, 1944 (Wednesday)

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March 16, 1944 (Thursday)

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March 17, 1944 (Friday)

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March 18, 1944 (Saturday)

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March 19, 1944 (Sunday)

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March 20, 1944 (Monday)

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March 21, 1944 (Tuesday)

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March 22, 1944 (Wednesday)

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March 23, 1944 (Thursday)

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March 24, 1944 (Friday)

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March 25, 1944 (Saturday)

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March 26, 1944 (Sunday)

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  • The Battle of Sangshak ended in tactical Japanese victory but strategic British victory, since the British were able to hold off the Japanese long enough to send reinforcements to Kohima.
  • American submarine Tullibee sank north of Palau due to a torpedo malfunction. Only 1 of the 60 crew survived.
  • The fifteen members of the captured OSS team in Operation Ginny II were summarily executed by German forces under Hitler's Commando Order at the command of General Anton Dostler. After the war Dostler would be executed as a war criminal.
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March 27, 1944 (Monday)

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March 28, 1944 (Tuesday)

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March 29, 1944 (Wednesday)

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March 30, 1944 (Thursday)

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March 31, 1944 (Friday)

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