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• Karl Hermann Frank's daughter Holle-Sigrid was born. ww2dbase [Karl Hermann Frank | CPC]
• USS Bailey arrived at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ww2dbase [Bailey | DS]

• Japanese troops began a 5-day offensive against US positions at Bougainville, starting Battle of Hill 700. ww2dbase [Solomon Islands Campaign | Bougainville | CPC]

• Japanese troops launched a major offensive across the Chindwin River in Burma toward Imphal, India. Meanwhile, another regiment from the Japanese 33rd Division crossed the Manipur River in Burma toward the Burmese-Indian border toward Tiddim, Burma. ww2dbase [Battle of Imphal-Kohima | AC]
• Orde Wingate personally visited the Chowringhee site of Operation Thursday in Burma. ww2dbase [Operation Thursday | CPC]

• USAAF bombers attacked Berlin, Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Berlin | TH]
• Robert Johnson participated in a large aerial battle over Steinhude Lake, Germany during which the Germans shot down 34 American bombers, but Johnson was able to claim two Bf 109 kills. ww2dbase [Robert Johnson | Steinhude, Süd-Hannover-Braunschweig | CPC]
• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against Erkner, Germany southeast of Berlin. ww2dbase [RAF Thurleigh | Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Erkner | DS]

• Landing ship No. 101 was completed. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]
• Kamikaze completed a period of refitting at Hakodate, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. ww2dbase [Kamikaze | Hakodate, Hokkaido | CPC]
• Zuikaku departed western Seto Inland Sea with B6N1 and A6M5 aircraft aboard for 601st Naval Air Group at Singapore; she was escorted by Kongo, Haruna, Mogami, Akigumo, Kazagumo, and Asagumo. ww2dbase [Asagumo | Zuikaku | Kongo | Haruna | Mogami | Seto Inland Sea | CPC]

• USS Alabama was relieved as the flagship of Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher of the US Navy Fast Carrier Task Force at Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Alabama | Majuro | CPC]
• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) stood out of Majuro, Marshall Islands for Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides. ww2dbase [Yorktown (Essex-class) | Majuro | DS]

• 3,791 Czech Jews were gassed at Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in occupied Poland. The men were killed in Crematorium III and the women and children in Crematorium II. ww2dbase [Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Oswiecim | CPC]

• NKVD troops began rounding up Balkars people in the Caucasus region of Russia. ww2dbase [Deportation of Caucasian, Altaic, and Turkish Peoples | Kabardino-Balkaria | CPC]

• The keel of submarine Sennet was laid down at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, United States. ww2dbase [Sennet | Kittery, Maine | CPC]

8 Mar 1944 Interactive Map