Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 560+ aircraft attack on Stuttgart, Germany. Central & western parts of the city damaged

The Eastern Front: The Kingisepp–Gdov Offensive ended in Soviet victory.

The Pacific Campaign: In Papua New Guinea, the Battle of Sio ended in Allied victory.

The Eastern Front: As part of the Battle of Narva, the Soviets began the second Narva Offensive.

The Pacific Campaign: The Huon Peninsula campaign in Papua New Guinea ended in Allied victory.

A massive strike began in the Italian Social Republic, for reasons that included resentment of producing for the Germans and the loyalty that many factory workers retained for Socialist and Communist ideologies. Estimates of the number of workers who participated in the strike range from 500,000 to 1.2 million.

The Pacific Campaign: Landing in the Admiralty Islands by American forces on Los Negros island while the previous landing group took Momote Airfield.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 120+ aircraft attack on Meulan-Les-Meureaux, France. The target was the SNCA aircraft factory. The target was extensively damaged

The Balvano train disaster occurred over the night of March 2/3 when some 426 people illegally riding a freight train in southern Italy died of carbon monoxide poisoning.

Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin rejected British proposals to negotiate over the Polish-Soviet border.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 230+ aircraft attack on Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 350+ aircraft attack on Amiens & Rosieres-en-Santerre. Targeting was French railways in the towns

World Lightweight Boxing Title Bob Montgomery (USA) beat Beau Jack (USA) Pts 15, Madison Square Garden, New York City.

Former Vichy French Interior Minister Pierre Pucheu goes on trial for treason in Algiers.

The Eastern Front: The second Narva Offensive ended in another German defensive victory.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Crossbow, attack on V-Weapon sites: Heavy day-time American air raid, 210+ aircraft on Saint-Omer-Abberviile, France.

The Burma Campaign: Operation Thursday: British & Gurkha forces known as the Chindits, fly by Hadrian glider from India into the heart of Burma.

The Eastern Front: The Red Army began the Uman–Botosani Offensive.

The Eastern Front: Soviet forces took the Ukrainian cities of Iziaslav and Yampil

Finland rejected a Soviet peace offer, objecting to the Soviet condition that all German forces in the country be interned and the 1940 borders be restored.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 260+ aircraft attack on Trappes, France. The first of a series of attacks on French & Belgian railways

Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Crossbow, attack on V-Weapon sites: Heavy day-time American air raid, 210+ aircraft on Beauvais, France

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 300+ aircraft attack on Le Mans, France. The target was French railways in the town

Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Crossbow, attack on V-Weapon sites: Heavy day-time American air raid, 110+ aircraft on various targets on the Channel coast of France.

The Burma Campaign: The Japanese began the offensive code-named Operation U-Go on the Indian-Burman border.

The British government announced plans to build 300,000 houses after the war.

The general strike in the Italian Social Republic ended after eight days. The Germans had arrested and deported about 1,200 workers.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid, 225+ aircraft attack on Volker & Soesterberg Luftwaffe airfields in the Netherlands

The Burma Campaign: The Battle of Imphal began in North East India.

The Pacific Campaign: American forces take Talasea in New Britain unopposed.

Ireland rejected an American request to expel Axis diplomats from the country.

The leftist Political Committee of National Liberation, commonly known as the "Mountain Government", was established in Greece.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 100+ aircraft attack on 4 targets Michelin Works at Clermnont-Ferrand, an aircraft factory at Chateauroux, Ossun & the La Ricamerie factory, France.

Former Vichy French Interior Minister Pierre Pucheu is found guilty of treason in Algiers & sentenced to death.

The Burma Campaign: British forces took Buthidaung in Burma.

German military officer Eberhard von Breitenbuch took a concealed pistol to a military briefing with Hitler at the Berghof with the intention of assassinating him. However, SS guards barred Breitenbuch from the room where Hitler met with higher-ranking officers and so the assassination attempt never went forward.

French police, German Abwehr & French Gestapo raided the Paris home of Dr Marcel Petiot, at 21 Rue le Sueur, near the Arc de Triomphe, who was engaged in Resistance activities, such as transporting people wanted by the Vichy French Government or German authorities. Instead, they find the remains of at least ten bodies and a large amount of clothing. The doctor, who was reputedly transporting people to Argentina for 25,000 Francs, was instead killing them. He would then take any valuables they had & dispose of the bodies in his basement. The police find the remains of at least 10 people. The doctor had escaped & remained on the run. The story was reported in the French papers, though Dr Petiot told the friends who were helping him that it was Vichy's lies.

The Pacific Campaign: American forces occupy Wotje Atoll without opposition.

Pope Pius XII asked the belligerent powers to spare the city of Rome from fighting and destruction.

The Eastern Front: Soviet forces reach the Bug River at Gayvoron.

Adolf Hitler orders the start of Operation Margarethe: The German occupation of Hungary

Damaged by depth charges from British Wellington aircraft & British Fortress aircraft, then by Canadian warship Prince Rupert & American warships Hobson & Haversfield, finally sunk by Avenger aircraft from American warship Bogue, in the North Atlantic, N of the Azores, 18 dead, 37 survivors captured, 46.18N 27.34W 13/03/1944

Italy and the Soviet Union restored diplomatic relations with one another.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 210+ aircraft attack on Le Mans, France. The target was French railways in the town

The Eastern Front: The Soviet forces capture Kherson.

The Republican Party presidential primaries began in the United States.

British Prime Minster Winston Churchill told the House of Commons that the Allies intended to completely isolate Ireland to prevent military secrets from leaking to the Axis, hinting that the border with Northern Ireland would soon be closed.

World Bantamweight Boxing Title Manuel Ortiz (USA) beat Ernesto Aguilar (Mexico) Pts 15, Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 860+ aircraft attack on Stuttgart, Germany. The centre of the city damaged

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 140+ aircraft attack on Amiens, France. Targetting the railway facilities in the town

The Italian Campaign: British, Indian and New Zealand forces tried to storm Monte Cassino but were unable to dislodge the Germans.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 130+ aircraft attack on Amiens, France. Targetting the railway facilities in the town

The Eastern Front: Soviet forces take Dubno.

Hungarian head of state Miklós Horthy came to the Schloss Klessheim south of Salzburg at Hitler's invitation. Horthy was forced to accept a new government and allow German troops onto Hungarian soil.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 850+ aircraft attack on Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The centre of the city damaged

The Eastern Front: As part of the Battle of Narva, the Soviets began the third Narva Offensive.

The Eastern Front: Soviet forces capture Zhmerynka.

Mount Vesuvius erupts, killing 26 civilians, destroying 88 American aircraft, and displacing 12,000 Italians.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Crossbow, attack on V-Weapon sites: Heavy day-time American air raid, 150+ aircraft on Saint-Omer, France.

The Burma Campaign: The Indian National Army (INA) hoists the Triclour flag on Japanese occupied British India, during the Battle of the Admin Box, Arakan, Burma

The start of Operation Margarethe: The German occupation of Hungary to forestall their Axis partner from making a separate peace with the Soviet Union.

The Pacific Campaign: American forces land unopposed at Emirau.

Former Vichy French Interior Minister Pierre Pucheu is executed by firing squad after being found guilty of treason in Algiers

The Burma Campaign: The Battle of Sangshak begins in Manipur.

The Eastern Front: Soviet forces capture the Ukrainian cities of Vinnytsia and Mohyliv-Podilskyi.

Finnish parliament held a secret session in which it rejected the peace terms offered by the Soviet Union.

The Pacific Campaign: American & Australian forces link up on New Guinea's Huon Peninsula.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 820+ aircraft attack on Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The centre of the city damaged

The Eastern Front: Soviet forces take Pervomaisk.

The Italian Campaign: Institution of the CIL (Corpo Italiano di Liberazione, Italian Liberation Corps), that gathers the units of the Italian Army fighting beside the Allies.

Authorities in German-controlled Hungary promulgated anti-Jewish legislation and ordered all Jewish businesses to close. Hundreds were sent to the Kistarcsa internment camp for political prisoners northeast of Budapest.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 140+ aircraft attack on Laon, France. Targetting the railway facilities in the town

Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Crossbow, attack on V-Weapon sites: Heavy day-time American air raid, 220+ aircraft on Beauvais area, France.

The Italian Campaign: Allied forces withdrew from Monte Cassino and the offensive was called off.

Mount Vesuvius eruptionkill 26 civilians & destroys 88 American aircraft, and displacing 12,000 Italians.

Ivanoe Bonomi resigned as president of the CCLN (Comitato Centrale di Liberazione Nazionale, Central National Liberation Committee). The organization was paralyzed by the contrasts between adversaries (PCI; PSI. Pd’A) and supporters (DC, PLI and DL) of the collaboration with the monarchist Badoglio cabinet.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 810+ aircraft attack on Berlin, Germany. South-west of the city damaged

Allied Bomber Offensive: British RAF Flight Sergeant Nicholas Alkemade survived a fall of 18,000 feet without a parachute when his Lancaster bomber was shot down east of Schmallenberg. Pine trees and soft snow broke his fall. Alkemade was subsequently captured and interviewed by the Gestapo, who were initially suspicious of his claim to have fallen without a parachute. This was until the wreckage of the aircraft was examined and his parachute was found as Alkemade had described it.

The Italian Campaign: German occupation troops in Italy carried out the Ardeatine massacre, killing 335 people outside of Rome in retaliation for the bomb attack of the previous day.

The "Great Escape" took place over the night of the 24th/25th, when 76 Royal Air Force prisoners of war escaped from Stalag Luft III in Lower Silesia.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 140+ aircraft attack on Aulnoye, France. Targetting the railway facilities in the town

Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Crossbow, attack on V-Weapon sites: Heavy day-time American air raid, 140+ aircraft on Hirson, France.

The Eastern Front: The Battle of the Kamenets-Podolsky pocket began when the Soviets attempted to surround & destroy part of the German Army Group South at Tarnopol.

Stalag Luft III murders: Hitler ordered the execution of prisoners of war who were recaptured after escaping Stalag Luft III.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 700+ aircraft attack on Essen, Germany. Extensive damage to the city

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 110+ aircraft attack on Aulnoye, France. Targetting the railway facilities in the town

Allied Bomber Offensive: Operation Crossbow, attack on V-Weapon sites: Heavy day-time American air raid, 330+ aircraft on Ijmuiden, Netherlands. The target was the U-boat pens.

The Burma Campaign: The Battle of Sangshak ended in a tactical Japanese victory but strategic British victory, since the British were able to hold off the Japanese long enough to send reinforcements to Kohima.

The fifteen members of the captured OSS team in Operation Ginny II were summarily executed by German forces under Hitler's Commando Order at the command of General Anton Dostler. After the war, Dostler would be executed as a war criminal.

A Finnish delegation met with Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov to discuss a peace settlement.

The Eastern Front: The Soviet forces take Kolomyia.

The Burma Campaign: The Japanese forces cut the Imphal-Kohima road at Maram. The British Imphal garrison could now only be supplied by air.

The Pacific Campaign: Operation Desecrate One, in which American aircraft carriers launch attacks against Japanese bases on and around Palau. 36 Japanese ships were sunk or damaged in the attacks.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 790+ aircraft attack on Nurenberg, Germany. The raid was judged to be a failure

The Eastern Front: Adolf Hitler sacked Erich von Manstein and Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist from their command posts on the Eastern Front and replaced them with Walter Model and Ferdinand Schörner.

The Eastern Front: Soviet forces take Ochakov.