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Example of march Entries.
March 1 1942 - US War & Navy Departments announce that commanders of Army & Navy forces in Hawaii at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack will be court-martialed.
March 2 1943 - Battle of the Bismark Sea , low level skip bombing by B25's & A20's, supported by "British" Beauforts, American & Australian fighters - attack Japanese convoy carrying reinforcements & supplies to New Guinea (note: I dont remember any Brits being involved, the Beauforts were Aussie, as were the Beufighters not mentioned plus some USAAF B17's)
March 4 1944 - Approx 600 USAAF B17 & B24's mount the first Daylight raid on Berlin.
March 4 1945 - 192 B29's of USAAF 21 Bomber Command attack the Mushashino aircraft factory in Tokyo, the last precision raid over Japan, from now on they rely on carpet bombing.
March 5 1936 - The first flight of the Spitfire.
March 5 1943 - The stat of the "Battle of the Ruhr". First large scale use of "OBOE"
March 6 1944 - "Battle of Berlin", highest casualty toll of any 8th Air Force mission.
March 8 1942 - Last combat mission (by 2 Hurricanes) in Java, Island surrenders next day.
March 9 1945 - Incindiary raid by B29's on Tokyo, 80,000 dead
March 14 1941 - Japanese "Zeros" escort a raid on Chengtu, longest distance for a fighter mission to date.
March 18 1945 - Mitscher's Fast carrier Fllet attackes Japanes Fleet in Kure-Kobe area, Japanese respond including the forst "Okha" attacks.
March 19 1940 - British aircraft drop their first bombs on Germany (deliberatly) in a raid on the Seaplane base at Hornum.
March 21 1941 - 99th Pursuit Squadron of the USAAC is activated, The first all African-American unit.
March 24 1945 - The 15th Air Force's (USAAF) longest bonmber escort mission is flown, 1600 mile round trip to Berlin, by 332nd Fighter Group, African-American pilots.
March 27 1939 - First flight of the CAC Wirraway (One shot down a Zeke!!)
March 30 1939 - Heinkel He100 raises world airspeed record to 463.92mph
March 30 1945 - Defecting pilot delivers an Me 262A-1 to the USAAF
March 31 1944 - Admiral Koga, succesot to Yamamoto as Commander in Cjief of Japan's Air & Naval force dies when his aircraft crashes on the way to Mindinao.
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