SprueStack Zero Hour: WW2 day by day
5 March 1943
What happened on this day in the Second World War, from 1939 to 1945, with a source for every entry.
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Each day we list events from the Second World War that happened on that date, from 1939 to 1945. Every entry names its source and links to it, so you can read further. Entries are sourced and machine-screened before they go up, a subset is human-reviewed, and we add more over time.
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Pacific Theater
THOR mission records show at least 5 Allied sorties (4 recorded unit missions) in the Pacific Theater on 1943-03-05, flown by USAAF 7th Air Force, USAAF 5th Air Force.
Source US Air Force THOR (opens external site)
THOR is a secondary compilation with known gaps, not a complete record.
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