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• The Japanese Navy removed Tatsuta Maru from the Navy List. ww2dbase [Tatsuta Maru | CPC]
• Claire Chennault was promoted to the rank of major general and placed in command of the newly formed USAAF 14th Air Force in China. ww2dbase [Claire Chennault | CPC]
• Axis forces participating in the failed Operation Capri attack in southeastern Tunisia fell back to the Mareth Line. ww2dbase [Battle of Medenine | CPC]
• The German Gestapo organization sent 11 Polish men and 11 Polish women from Bielsko, Poland to Auschwitz Concentration Camp. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
• Captain Teruhiko Miyoshi was named the commanding officer of battleship Mutsu. ww2dbase [Mutsu | CPC]
• Daly was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Daly | CPC]
• The No. 1 Column of the Northern Group of the Chindits destroyed the rail bridge at Kyaikthin, Burma and crossed the Irrawaddy River with the help of locals. ww2dbase [Operation Longcloth | CPC]
• German submarine U-255 sank freighter Richard Bland of Allied convoy RA-53; 61 were killed, 1 survived. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | CPC]
• At Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, USS Nicholas transferred from Destroyer Squadron 5 (DesRon5) to Destroyer Squadron 21 (DesRon21), Cdr Francis McInerney commanding. ww2dbase [Nicholas | DS]

• Nachi arrived at Attu, Aleutian Islands. ww2dbase [Nachi | Attu, Aleutian Islands | CPC]

• Auxiliary Aircraft Carrier USS Bogue and her escorts detached from Convoy HX228 in the mid-Atlantic and set course back toward Argentia, Newfoundland. ww2dbase [Bogue | DS]

• Submarine USS Thresher arrived at Fremantle, Australia ending her seventh war patrol. Thresher's commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander William Millican, was awarded a gold star in lieu of a second award of the Navy Cross for his actions during Thresher's seventh war patrol. ww2dbase [Thresher | Fremantle | DS]

• US Navy squadrons VF-26, VF-27, and VF-28, all equipped with F4F fighters, were assigned to Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Henderson Field | Lunga Point, Guadalcanal | CPC]

• Lin Sen was involved in an automobile accident in Chongqing, China. ww2dbase [Lin Sen | Chongqing | CPC]

• USS Whale arrived in waters off Tanapag Harbor, Saipan, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Whale | CPC]

• Group Captain Sidney Bufton replaced Air Commodore J. W. Baker as the Director of Bomber Operations at the Air Ministry in London, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [London, England | AC]

• George Kenney and Richard Sutherland arrived at Washington DC, United States. ww2dbase [George Kenney | Washington | CPC]
• Chuck Yeager earned his wings and was promoted to the rank of flight officer. ww2dbase [Charles Yeager | CPC]
• USS Hoe departed Newport, Rhode Island, United States and arrived at New London, Connecticut, United States. ww2dbase [Hoe | Newport, Rhode Island | CPC]
• USS Ranger arrived at Quonset Point, Rhode Island. ww2dbase [Ranger | Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island | DS]

10 Mar 1943 Interactive Map