March 13th, 1945 (TUESDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: SS Taber Park (2,878 GRT), Canadian merchantman, was sunk in the North Sea off England's NE coast in position 52.22N, 001.53E, by either a mine or a German midget submarine. Only four members of the crew of 32 men survived.
Submarine HMS Alliance laid down.
GERMANY: U-1407 commissioned.
NORWAY:
ITALY: RAF Wellington bombers of No. 40 Squadron raid Treviso. (22)
NETHERLANDS East Indies: No. 25 Squadron RAAF bombs Mapin on Sumbawa, staging through Truscott airbase. (Mike Mitchell)
U.S.A.: Destroyer USS Wiltsie laid down.
PERU: Peru declares war on Germany. (Mike Ballard)