March 14th, 1944 (TUESDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: Frigate HMCS Valleyfield departed Horta escorting damaged HMCS Mulgrave under tow of HMS Dundee to Clyde.
GERMANY: Peenemunde: Wernher von Braun and two assistants are arrested, accused of diverting resources from military rocket projects to peaceful ones, such as the movement of mail by rocket.
U-1014 commissioned.
BURMA: Air Commando Combat Mission N0.28-2:40 Flight Time Hailakandi, Assam to Meza, Burma. Bombed Meza railroad bridges with excellent results. Two direct hits on the bridge and one on tracks just short of the bridge. The fighter dive bombed a truck pontoon bridge a few hundred yards away. Both bridges destroyed.
Note: On a number of these missions we had a combat photographer on the flight who took color 16 mm movie film. Several years ago these films were located and a video of many of these actions were put together. I was lucky enough to have received a tape and got quite a few goose bumps looking at things we did so many years ago. (Chuck Baisden)
CHINA: The Communist Eighth Route Army captures Chinhsien, in Hupeh province.
AUSTRALIA:
U.S.A.: Presidential Election begins with the primary election in New Hampshire. Wendell Wilkie and Franklin D. Roosevelt win for their respective parties.
Destroyer USS Meredith commissioned.
Submarine USS Lizardfish laid down.
Corvette HMCS Kamsack completed forecastle extension refit Baltimore.
ATLANTIC OCEAN: U-852 torpedoed the Greek SS Peleus. In a unique case among U-boats, they machine-gunned wreckage in the waters in an attempt to remove traces of their victim and to cover their tracks.