March 29th, 1943 (MONDAY)
GERMANY: Rastenburg: Hitler orders the construction of an enormous missile-launch site on the French side of the Channel, to bombard Britain.
NORTH AFRICA: New Zealand troops
of the Eighth Army enter Babes.
The last Axis troops reach Wadi Akarit.
TUNISIA: Ninth Air Force B-25s and P-40s attack an airfield and support British ground forces.
BURMA: Tenth Air Force B-24s, B-25s and P-40s bomb shipping, railroad yards and Japanese ground troops and Fourteenth Air Force P-40s strafe trucks at Bhamo.
CHINA: Fourteenth Air Force P-40s attack a fuel drums at Chefang.
SOLOMON ISLANDS: Thirteenth Air Force B-17s and B-24s bomb Buin and Kahili Airfields on Bougainville Island while P-38s and a Marine F4U attack a seaplane anchorage.
Submarine USS Gato [Lt-Cmdr Mike Foley] arrives at Japanese occupied Bougainville to bring in a replacement coastwatcher and 12 commandos to replace 12 of Australian Coast Watcher's Jack Read's 25 AIF commandos (Lt. Mackie), plus 39 Chinese, European and Fijian civilians. Jack Read and Paul Mason refuse to be evacuated. (Michael Alexander)
U.S.A. Meat, butter and cheese are rationed with a rationed amount of 784 grams/week/person. GI's were allowed 2 kilograms / week. (Michael Ballard)
Tests of forward firing rocket projectiles from naval aircraft are completed at
the Naval Proving Ground, Dahlgren, Virginia, using a Brewster SB2A-4 Buccaneer.
At Naval Air Station (NAS) Norfolk, Virginia, the Naval Air Transport Service (NATS)
commissions Air Transport Squadrons, Atlantic, to supervise and direct
operations of NATS squadrons based on the U.S. East Coast.