Posting early, may not be available tomorrow, going for procedure for my back and they will be putting me out so I'll probably sleep most of the day after.
March 3
1941 – Russia criticizes German occupation of Bulgaria.
1942 – Berlin admits that the encircled 16th Army in seriously short of food.
Burma; Fighting continues in the WAW-Pyinbon area, north-east of Pegu.
New British trrops arrive to reinforce the defences of Rangoon.
The Phillippines; Japanese land at Zamboanga on the island of Mindanao.
Japanese aircraft raid Broome in Western Australia where most refuges from Java are.
RAF makes heavy raid on the Renault works on the outskirts of Paris.
1943 – Russians take Rzhev after days of bitteer fighting, also taking Lgov and Dmitriev-
Logovskiy on the Kharkov -Bryansk railway.
Burma; Windgate's column crosses the river Mu and skirting the village of Tongmauw,
tackle the Mingin Mountains east of where the railway and the river Irrawaddy flows.
Heavy night raid by RAF on Hamberg.
In London 173 people killed after entering a tube shelter during air raid in which no bombs
fell in that area, deaths caused by suffocation.
1944 – In what are to be the last battles in the Anzio sector, American 3rd Division halts a fresh
German attack near Pont Rotto, counter-attack and re-take some positions in the
afternoon.
The Japanese on Los Negros launch a very powerful night attack against the American
beachhead. They are driven back after suffering heasy losses, and never mount
operations on so big a scale again.
Burma; American 5307th occupies Lagang Ga and clears an open space for dropping of
supplies.
American / Chinese armoured group in support of Chinese 22nd Division occupies
Ngam Ga and repulses a night counter-attack.
1945 – Winston Churchill visits Julich, Germany for the first time as Prime Minister setting foot on
German soil.
American, British, and Canadian forces hook up at Wallbeck, south-west of Gelderen.
Units of the VII Corps[US 1st Army] advance rapidly to the Rhine, taking
Sinsteden,Stommeln,Gleesen and Dansweiller, before starting operations against
Konigsberg with the 104th Division. No improvement witht the 87th and 4th Divisions
pinned down near Ormont and Reuth. 11th Armoured crosses the Prium river and
attacks towards the river Kyll, taking Fleringen. 6th Armoured continues advance from
Prium to the Nims and some cross north of Schonecken.
Phillippines; All Japanese resistance in Manila is at an end, with the liquidation of their
forces in the Ternate area of the entire Manila Bay.
Iwo Jima; the 3rd,4th and 5th Marine units continue attacking strong Japanese
positions, Height 382 is finally taken, caves and tunnels are being 'mopped up'.
U.S. Marines fighting for control of Iwo Jima in WWII