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• American aircraft attacked a Japanese convoy near Wewak, New Guinea. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | CPC]
• Captain Yoshi Matsuura was named the commanding officer of light carrier Ryuho. ww2dbase [Ryuho | CPC]
• USS Flying Fish sank a Japanese transport and damaged a tanker off Okinawa, Japan, hitting them with 3 of 10 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Flying Fish | CPC]

• Allies troops captured Mawlu, a major rail link in central Burma. ww2dbase [CPC]

• German Type IXC submarine U-505 left Brest, France on the submarine's 12th patrol, with Oberleutnant-zur-See Harald Lange in command. ww2dbase [The Capture of the U-505 | U-505 | DS]

• USS Seahorse departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her fourth war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Seahorse | CPC]
• USS Harder departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her fourth war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Harder | CPC]

• The Calcutta, India based Special Operations Executive mission in the Far East, known as GS I(k), adopted the title Force 136 with the purpose of providing long-range strategic and political intelligence throughout South-East Asia, and to organise local resistance groups against the Japanese. ww2dbase [AC]

• Allied troops continued the attack on Monte Cassino, Italy. ww2dbase [Battle of Monte Cassino | CPC]

• British civilian Oswald Job was hanged at Pentonville Prison in Islington, London, England, United Kingdom for spying. ww2dbase [CPC]

• USS Tang departed Midway, starting her second war patrol in the waters near Palau Islands, Caroline Islands, and south of the Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Midway Bases | Tang | CPC]

16 Mar 1944 Interactive Map