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• Sargent Bay was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Sargent Bay | CPC]
• Wedderburn was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Wedderburn | CPC]
• USS Pompon attacked a Japanese convoy in the Dutch East Indies; all 4 torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Pompon | CPC]

• USAAF medium and heavy bombers attacked Rabaul, New Britain. This was to be the first of many unescorted raids by multi-engine bombers as the Japanese fighter strength at Rabaul began to be worn down by continuous Allied aerial attacks. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | CPC]

• Gusen II, a satellite of Mauthausen Concentration Camp, opened at Sankt Georgen an der Gusen, Austria. Prisoners of Gusen II were used to build underground aircraft and weapons factories. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]

• 18 B-25 bombers of the Chinese-American Composite Wing escorted by 24 P-40 fighters attacked a foundry and floating docks at Huangshi, Hubei, China. Japanese fighters of 9th and 25th Sentai rose to intercept, shooting down 2 P-40 fighters. ww2dbase [CPC]

• In a letter to Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler noted that by this date, about 36,000 prisoners were employed for various purposes for the Luftwaffe. He informed Göring that plans were being considered to increase the number to 90,000. ww2dbase [Heinrich Himmler | CPC]

• One Italian motor torpedo boat attacked the Allied beachhead at Anzio, Italy before dawn, causing no damage. ww2dbase [Battle of Anzio | CPC]

• Landing ship No. 103 was launched. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]

• NKVD troops completed the rounding up of 37,713 Balkars people in the Caucasus region of Russia. They would be deported to the east aboard 14 trains. ww2dbase [Deportation of Caucasian, Altaic, and Turkish Peoples | CPC]

9 Mar 1944 Interactive Map