8 Mar 1944
- Karl Hermann Frank's daughter Holle-Sigrid was born. ww2dbase [Karl Hermann Frank | CPC]
- USS Bailey arrived at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ww2dbase [Bailey | DS]
- Battle of Hill 700: Japanese troops began a 5-day offensive against US positions at Bougainville. ww2dbase [Solomon Islands Campaign | Bougainville | CPC]
- Japanese troops launched a major offensive across the Chindwin River in Burma toward Imphal, India. Meanwhile, another regiment from the Japanese 33rd Division crossed the Manipur River in Burma toward the Burmese-Indian border toward Tiddim, Burma. ww2dbase [Battle of Imphal-Kohima | AC]
- Orde Wingate personally visited the Chowringhee site of Operation Thursday in Burma. ww2dbase [Operation Thursday | CPC]
- USAAF bombers attacked Berlin, Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Berlin | TH]
- Robert Johnson participated in a large aerial battle over Steinhude Lake, Germany during which the Germans shot down 34 American bombers, but Johnson was able to claim two Bf 109 kills. ww2dbase [Robert Johnson | Steinhude, Süd-Hannover-Braunschweig | CPC]
- The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against Erkner, Germany southeast of Berlin. ww2dbase [RAF Thurleigh | Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Erkner | DS]
- Landing ship No. 101 was completed. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]
- Kamikaze completed a period of refitting at Hakodate, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. ww2dbase [Kamikaze | Hakodate, Hokkaido | CPC]
- USS Alabama was relieved as the flagship of Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher of the US Navy Fast Carrier Task Force at Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Alabama | Majuro | CPC]
- USS Yorktown (Essex-class) stood out of Majuro, Marshall Islands for Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides. ww2dbase [Yorktown (Essex-class) | Majuro | DS]
- 3,791 Czech Jews were gassed at Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in occupied Poland. The men were killed in Crematorium III and the women and children in Crematorium II. ww2dbase [Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Oswiecim | CPC]
- NKVD troops began rounding up Balkars people in the Caucasus region of Russia. ww2dbase [Deportation of Caucasian, Altaic, and Turkish Peoples | Kabardino-Balkaria | CPC]
- The keel of submarine Sennet was laid down at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, United States. ww2dbase [Sennet | Kittery, Maine | CPC]
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