23 Mar 1940
  • Dutch fighters accidentally shot down a RAF bomber near Rotterdam. ww2dbase [TH]
  • The British Malaya Force was formed to observe German merchant ships in Dutch East Indies. ww2dbase [CPC]
  • British submarine (HMS Truant or HMS Trident) intercepted German merchant ship Edmund Hugo Stinnes IV 6 miles off of the western coast of Denmark at 2330 hours. The German ship sailed closer to shore before being scuttled by its crew. The abandoned ship was later torpedoed and sunk by the submarine. ww2dbase [CPC]
  • IRA prisoners at Dartmoor, England staged a riot. ww2dbase [CPC]
  • Deportation of Jews in German-occupied Eastern Europe continued despite of Hermann Göring's order for a temporary pause. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
China
  • Eiji Nishimura was named the head of Unit 1855, a Japanese Army medical unit for human experimentation, in Beiping, China. ww2dbase [Eiji Nishimura | Beiping | CPC]
23 Mar 1940 Photos
Officers and crew of USS Louisville, San Pedro, California, United States, 23 Mar 1940



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