11 Mar 1945




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- US Third Army captured Kochem, Germany. ww2dbase [Advance to the Rhine | TH]
- 285 American B-29 bombers attacked the Nagoya, Japan urban area with incendiary bombs. ww2dbase [Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities | CPC]
- Light carrier Hosho departed Oita, Japan for target ship duty for Air Group 252's training. ww2dbase [Hosho | CPC]
- USS Boarfish departed Fremantle, Australia for her second war patrol. ww2dbase [Boarfish | Fremantle, Western Australia | CPC]
- Anglo-Indian troops continued to assault Mandalay Hill near Mandalay, Burma. ww2dbase [Battle of Meiktila-Mandalay | Mandalay | CPC]
- In Operation Tan No. 2, Japanese Navy aircraft conducted a large-scale special attack operation on American warships at Ulithi atoll, Caroline Islands. Closer to the home islands, a P1Y1 Ginga aircraft of 762nd Naval Air Group based in Kanoya, Kagoshima, Japan struck USS Randolph at dusk. ww2dbase [Randolph | Ulithi | CPC]
- Emperor Bao Dai of Nguyen Dynasty Vietnam declared Vietnamese independence from France, with Japanese support. ww2dbase [Bao Dai | Hue, Annam | CPC]
- USAAF B-25 aircraft bombed Japanese shipping off Tourane (now Da Nang), Annam, French Indochina, sinking the small sailing ships Kinsei Maru, Namikiri Maru and Hinode Maru No. 3. ww2dbase [Tourane, Annam | HM]
- Lavrentiy Beria reported to Joseph Stalin that suicides, especially among women, were becoming common in Soviet-occupied East Prussia, Germany. ww2dbase [East Prussian Offensive | CPC]
- Adolf Hitler made a surprise visit to 9th Army headquarters in Saarow between Frankfurt an der Oder and Berlin in Germany. ww2dbase [Adolf Hitler | Saarow, Mark Brandenburg | CPC]
- The 3,059-ton German cargo merchant Cambronne was sunk in the Elbe River with the floating dock where she was undergoing repairs. ww2dbase [HM]
- German submarine U-682, a Type VII-C submarine, was destroyed in an air raid by bombers of US 8th Air Force at 0115 hours at the Howaldswerke Yard in Hamburg, Germany. ww2dbase [Hamburg | HM]
- The 10,750-ton German Navy training ship Hugo Zeye struck a mine and sank in the Baltic Sea on the approaches to Kiel, Germany. Only 5 survived; many military personnel and civilian evacuees from Ostpreußen (East Prussia) were killed. ww2dbase [Schleswig-Holstein | HM]
- U-3061, still under construction, was damaged during an Allied air raid on Bremen, Germany. ww2dbase [Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG | U-3061 | Bremen, Weser-Ems | CPC]
- While under repair at Deutsche Werke shipyard in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Emden suffered damage on the forward deck and port torpedo launchers from Allied aerial incendiary bombs. ww2dbase [Deutsche Werke Kiel | Emden | Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein | CPC]
- H. C. Stülcken Sohn shipyard in Hamburg, Germany was heavily damaged by Allied bombing. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | H. C. Stülcken Sohn | Hamburg | AG]
- Z43 began shelling Soviet positions near Kolberg, Germany (now Kołobrzeg, Poland). ww2dbase [East Pomeranian Offensive | Z43 | Kolberg, Pommern | CPC]
- USS Sargent Bay departed Iwo Jima, Japan. ww2dbase [Sargent Bay | Iwo Jima | CPC]
- American fighters began flying escort operations from Iwo Jima, Japan. ww2dbase [Battle of Iwo Jima | Iwo Jima | CPC]
- Settsu departed Oita, Japan for target ship duty. ww2dbase [Settsu | CPC]
- USS Segundo sank Japanese cargo ship Shori Maru in the East China Sea off Korea with 2 of 4 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Segundo | East China Sea | CPC]
- USS Springer attempted to attack two Japanese warships in the Pacific Ocean, but was driven off by aircraft. ww2dbase [Springer | CPC]
- Soviet forces moved toward Gotenhafen (Gdynia) occupied Poland, endangering the civilian rescue effort there. ww2dbase [East Pomeranian Offensive | Pomorskie | TH]
- The first unexploded V-2 rocket landed in England, United Kingdom, but it was not retrieved and studied until 7 Apr, by that time other unexploded rockets had been found and many secrets of the rocket had already been uncovered. ww2dbase [V-Weapons Campaign | Vergeltungswaffe 2 | England | CPC]
- Allied convoy JW-65 departed Clyde, Scotland, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Clyde, Scotland | CPC]




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