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• Bell was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Richard Saul became the head of the British Air Headquarters Air Defences Eastern Mediterranean. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• The Battle of the Bismarck Sea continued as US bombers sank already fatally damaged and abandoned destroyer Tokitsukaze and sank 6 landing barges that had arrived to rescue survivors of ships sunk on the previous day. After expending their bomb loads, American air crews strafed Japanese survivors floating in the sea. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH, CPC]
• The Bulgarian government, in an attempt to protect Bulgarian Jews, fulfilled German pressure by deporting about 4,000 Greek Jews from the occupied territory of Thrace. These Greek Jews were eventually sent to concentration camps in Poland. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS S-28 departed Dutch Harbor, US Territory of Alaska for Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• George Kenney departed Australia for Washington DC, United States. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Post Office turned over to station. British Fighter Squadrons 882, 896, and 898 from HMS Victorious ("USS Robin"), arrived on board. ww2dbase [Main Article | DS]

• Nachi arrived at Paramushiro (Paramushir), Kurile Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• USS Permit damaged a Japanese transport off Iwate, Japan, hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Sunfish sanked a Japanese ships in the East China Sea, hitting her with 3 torpedoes. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Colonel William Scobey, executive to the US Assistant Secretary of War, visited Jerome War Relocation Center in Arkansas, United States to recruit volunteers among the Japanese-American internees for combat duty. Of 1,579 eligible men, only 31 volunteered. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

4 Mar 1943 Interactive Map