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• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Rabaul, New Britain departing later on the same day. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | CPC]
• German tanks stopped the British offensive at El Hamma, Tunisia, but New Zealand troops had successfully secured territory south of the town. ww2dbase [Operations Pugilist and Supercharge II | CPC]
• USS Tunny reached Wake Island waters. ww2dbase [Tunny | CPC]

• Japanese 6th Field Kempeitai arrived at Rabaul, New Britain. ww2dbase [Rabaul, New Britain | CPC]

• Junyo and Hiyo arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands with Yugure, Hatsuzuki, Suzutsuki, and Kagero in escort. ww2dbase [Hiyo | Junyo | Yugure | Truk | CPC]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Additions to Marine Fighting Squadron 222 (VMF-222) arrived on board. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• Shokaku arrived at Kure, Japan after layovers at Tokuyama, Iwaishima, Beppu, and Tokuyama again en route. ww2dbase [Shokaku | Kure, Hiroshima | CPC]
• Katori arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. ww2dbase [Katori | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]

• USS Wahoo sank a small Japanese patrol vessel with her deck gun in the Yellow Sea, then sank a small fishing trawler with improvised Molotov cocktail bombs. ww2dbase [Wahoo | Yellow Sea | CPC]

• The BI-3 rocket-powered prototype aircraft took its fourth flight at Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, reaching the speed of more than 800 kilometers per hour. The aircraft would lose control during flight, crashing to the ground and killing test pilot Grigory Bakhchivandzhi. ww2dbase [BI | Sverdlovsk | CPC]

• The US Court of Appeals granted a review of Fred Korematsu's case. ww2dbase [Fred Korematsu | Washington | CPC]

27 Mar 1943 Interactive Map