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• Captain Teruhiko Miyoshi was named the commanding officer of battleship Mutsu. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]
• Daly was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• The Japanese Navy removed Tatsuta Maru from the Navy List. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | 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 [Main Article | CPC]
• Axis forces participating in the failed Operation Capri attack in southeastern Tunisia fell back to the Mareth Line. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• The German Gestapo organization sent 11 Polish men and 11 Polish women from Bielsko, Poland to Auschwitz Concentration Camp. ww2dbase [Main Article | 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 [Main Article | CPC]
• German submarine U-255 sank freighter Richard Bland of Allied convoy RA-53; 61 were killed, 1 survived. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Nachi arrived at Attu, Aleutian Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• 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 [Main Article | CPC]

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

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

• George Kenney and Richard Sutherland arrived at Washington DC, United States. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

10 Mar 1943 Interactive Map