24 Mar 1939
- Slovakian forces counterattacked the Hungarian invaders, pushing Hungarian troops nearly to the Okna River. ww2dbase [The Slovak-Hungarian War | CPC]
- Destroyer Yukikaze was launched. ww2dbase [Yukikaze | CPC]
- Yosuke Matsuoka stepped down as the President of the South Manchuria Railway. ww2dbase [Yosuke Matsuoka | CPC]
- Takuichi Ohmura was named the President of the South Manchuria Railway. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Choibalsan was made the prime minister of the separatist Mongolian state in China. ww2dbase [Choibalsan | Mongolia | CPC]
- Adolf Hitler returned from recently annexed Memel to Berlin, Germany. ww2dbase [Adolf Hitler | Berlin | CPC]
- USS Astoria departed the Panama Canal Zone. ww2dbase [Astoria (New Orleans-class) | CPC]
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