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• Hitler allowed German 1.Panzerarmee to break out west of Lvov, Ukraine. ww2dbase [TH]
• US declared Manus, Admiralty Islands secure. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | CPC]
• Churchill's recommendations to bomb German V-weapon sites were turned down by Eisenhower, who preferred to place priority on transportation and communications hubs. ww2dbase [CPC]
• USS Gar fired six torpedoes on a Japanese ship; all torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Gar | CPC]
• The Hungarian Council of Ministers approved several anti-Semitic policies, including a law requiring Jews to wear the yellow Star of David to be effective on 5 Apr 1944. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]

• At Lingga, Dutch East Indies, Shokaku became the flagship of Admiral Ozawa Jisaburo's Third Fleet and the Mobile Fleet. ww2dbase [Shokaku | Lingga | CPC]

• U-976, a German Type VIIC submarine, was sunk in the Bay of Biscay south-west of Saint-Nazaire, France by gunfire from two RAF Mosquito aircraft from 248 Squadron RAF/L&I. Four of the submarine's crew of 53 lost their lives. ww2dbase [Saint-Nazaire, Pays de la Loire | HM]

• 811 RAF bombers raided Berlin, Germany; 122 aircraft were lost. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Berlin | CPC]

• The 3rd Battalion of the Japanese 60th Regiment attacked Allied positions at Sangshak, India. Meanwhile, Louis Mountbatten requested the Anglo-American Combined Chiefs of Staff for more aircraft to supply Imphal, India, which would be denied. ww2dbase [Battle of Imphal-Kohima | Sangshak, Manipur | CPC]

• Landing ship No. 104 was launched. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]

• US submarine USS Pollack (SS-180) attacked a Japanese convoy and sank Japanese Submarine Chaser No. 54 and damaged two freighters 50 miles north of Muko Jima, Ogasawara Islands (Bonin Islands); ten torpedoes were expended in this attack. ww2dbase [Pollack | CPC, HM]
• USS Whale set sail for East China Sea. ww2dbase [Whale | CPC]

• 184 Jews who had been recently arrested from their hiding places in the Hague in the Netherlands arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Oswiecim | CPC]

• Franklin Roosevelt arrived at Hyde Park, New York, United States. ww2dbase [Franklin Roosevelt | Hyde Park, New York | CPC]
• 231st Army Air Force Base Unit was named the operating unit of Alamogordo Army Air Field near Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States. ww2dbase [Alamogordo Army Air Field | Alamogordo, New Mexico | CPC]

25 Mar 1944 Interactive Map