date |
year |
description of clip |
01 Mar |
1944 |
Chindit 16th Brigade marches into Burma
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02 Mar |
1943 |
Start of the naval Battle of the Bismarch Sea
|
03 Mar |
1943 |
Spitfire vs Messerschmitt over English Channel
|
04 Mar |
1941 |
What is Blitzkrieg
|
05 Mar |
1944 |
RAF bombing raid against Bordeaux
|
06 Mar |
1944 |
Soviet Army drives forward on wide front in Ukraine
|
07 Mar |
1945 |
The bridge at Remagen taken
|
08 Mar |
1942 |
Rangoon falls
|
09 Mar |
1944 |
Japanese launch offensive on Bougainville
|
10 Mar |
1942 |
Dutch East Indies falls to the Japanese
|
11 Mar |
1941 |
Lend-Lease bill signed in Washington
|
12 Mar |
1940 |
'Winter War' in Finland over
|
13 Mar |
1940 |
Russo-Finnish Peace signed in Moscow
|
14 Mar |
1945 |
US Third Army crosses Moselle
|
15 Mar |
1939 |
Germany occupies the remainder of Czechoslovakia
|
16 Mar |
1945 |
Iwo Jima finally falls
|
17 Mar |
1943 |
General Patton restore original front line after Rommel's initial attack
|
18 Mar |
1944 |
Heavy air raid on Hamburg, over 3000 tons of bombs dropped
|
19 Mar |
1945 |
Japanese driven out of Mandalay
|
20 Mar |
1943 |
British Eighth Army attack Mareth Line in Tunisia
|
21 Mar |
1942 |
Leningrad still holds out
|
22 Mar |
1945 |
US Third Army establishes bridgehead south of Mainz
|
23 Mar |
1945 |
Across the Rhine
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24 Mar |
1945 |
14,000 British and US paratroopers dropped at the Wesel
|
25 Mar |
1941 |
Yugoslavia joins the Axis
|
26 Mar |
1945 |
Last Japanese survivors on Iwo Jima launch 'Banzai' attack
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27 Mar |
1945 |
US First and Third Armies meat near Coblenz
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28 Mar |
1945 |
General Eisenhower announces that the Allies first target is Dresden
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29 Mar |
1944 |
US Task Force attack the Carolines
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30 Mar |
1944 |
RAF raids Nuremberg and lose 95 aircraft
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31 Mar |
1941 |
Rommel attack Mersa Brega
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