March 1941

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The following events occurred in March 1941:

March 1, 1941 (Saturday)[edit]

March 2, 1941 (Sunday)[edit]

March 3, 1941 (Monday)[edit]

March 4, 1941 (Tuesday)[edit]

March 5, 1941 (Wednesday)[edit]

March 6, 1941 (Thursday)[edit]

March 7, 1941 (Friday)[edit]

  • Operation Lustre: The first British soldiers from North Africa arrived in Greece.[13]
  • German submarine U-47 went missing west of Ireland. The sub's fate remains unknown.
  • Died: Günther Prien, 33, German U-boat ace (went missing aboard U-47)

March 8, 1941 (Saturday)[edit]

March 9, 1941 (Sunday)[edit]

March 10, 1941 (Monday)[edit]

March 11, 1941 (Tuesday)[edit]

March 12, 1941 (Wednesday)[edit]

March 13, 1941 (Thursday)[edit]

March 14, 1941 (Friday)[edit]

March 15, 1941 (Saturday)[edit]

March 16, 1941 (Sunday)[edit]

March 17, 1941 (Monday)[edit]

March 18, 1941 (Tuesday)[edit]

March 19, 1941 (Wednesday)[edit]

March 20, 1941 (Thursday)[edit]

March 21, 1941 (Friday)[edit]

March 22, 1941 (Saturday)[edit]

  • British troops overran the Italians in Babille Pass.[1]
  • Vichy French President Philippe Pétain signed a bill to construct a trans-Saharan railway, which was to be built by prisoners of war and Jews.[32]
  • German submarines U-126 and U-202 were commissioned.

March 23, 1941 (Sunday)[edit]

  • The German submarine U-551 was depth charged and sunk in the North Atlantic by the British anti-submarine trawler HMT Visenda.
  • Born: Jim Trelease, educator and author, in Orange, New Jersey (d. 2022)
  • Died: Tadeusz Tański, 49, Polish automobile designer (murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp)

March 24, 1941 (Monday)[edit]

March 25, 1941 (Tuesday)[edit]

March 26, 1941 (Wednesday)[edit]

March 27, 1941 (Thursday)[edit]

  • The Yugoslav coup d'état occurred. Dušan Simović and other Serb nationalist officers in the Royal Yugoslav Air Force overthrew Yugoslavia's pro-Axis government and intended to back out of the Tripartite Pact. When Hitler learned of the coup he issued Directive No. 25 ordering an invasion of Yugoslavia.[16]
  • The Battle of Cape Matapan began off the southwest coast of Greece.
  • Ion Antonescu signed an anti-Jewish law providing for the segregation of Romania's Jews and expropriation of their urban property.[36]
  • Aboard the presidential yacht USS Potomac, President Roosevelt signed the $7 billion wartime appropriation bill.[37]
  • German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop met his Japanese counterpart Yōsuke Matsuoka in Berlin.[38]
  • Japanese spy Takeo Yoshikawa arrived in Pearl Harbor. Yoshikawa noticed that battleships were berthed in pairs and that the in-shore ship was protected from torpedo attacks by the outboard one.[39]
  • German submarine U-563 was commissioned.

March 28, 1941 (Friday)[edit]

March 29, 1941 (Saturday)[edit]

March 30, 1941 (Sunday)[edit]

  • Hitler held a conference with his generals in which he said that the upcoming war with Russia would be a race war in which communist commissars and Jews would be exterminated by SS Einsatzgruppen following behind the advancing armies. Hitler expected the Soviet Union to be defeated in a matter of weeks and declared, "We have only to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down."[42]
  • The British liner Umona was torpedoed and sunk off Freetown, Sierra Leone by the German submarine U-124.
  • Born: Wasim Sajjad, President of Pakistan, in Jalandhar, Punjab, British India

March 31, 1941 (Monday)[edit]

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  6. ^ "Presidential Order Freezes Bulgarian Assets in America". Chicago Daily Tribune. Chicago: Chicago Daily Tribune. March 4, 1941. p. 1.
  7. ^ "A Frenchman sheds tears of patriotic grief as flags of his country's lost regiments are exiled to Africa". Life. Time Inc. March 3, 1941. p. 29.
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  14. ^ "Senate Passes British Aid Bill by 60 to 31; Boro Trolleys Crash, Hurt 26; More Snow Due". Brooklyn Eagle. Brooklyn. March 9, 1941. p. 1.
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