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March 14th

1945: The US Third Army crosses the Moselle river near Koblenz. In Hungary, the German counterattack to recapture the oilfields near Lake Balaton comes to an end. In East Prussia, the Red Army cuts all communications between Königsberg and the German forces fighting in the Braunsberg pocket. The US 15th Air Force, taking off from Italian airfields, launches a heavy raid (500 bombers) against Regensburg, while the RAF attacks Wuppertal with 400 aircraft.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/march.html

1942: Horn Island bombed - Japanese bomb Horn Island, Torres Strait. Horn Island, in the Torres Strait, was the main tactical base for Allied air operations in the Torres Strait. The island was subject to nine Japanese air raids during the Second World War.
source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp

1863 - RADM Farragut's squadron of 7 ships forces way up Mississippi River to support Union troops at Vicksburg and Baton Rouge
1929 - NAS Pensacola aircraft make 113 flights for flood rescue and relief
source: http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/datesmar.htm

1590 - Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.
1915 - World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew.
1939 - German troops fully occupy the Czechoslovak provinces of Bohemia and Moravia.
1945 - World War II - The R.A.F. first operational use of the Grand Slam bomb, Bielefeld, Germany.
1951 - Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_14

1862: Battle of New Bern, North Carolina Union General Ambrose Burnside captures North Carolina's second largest city and closes another port through which the Confederates could slip supplies.
1943: Germans recapture Kharkov German troops re-enter Kharkov, the second largest city in the Ukraine, which had changed hands several times in the battle between the USSR and the invading German forces.
1965: Allies launch second wave of Rolling Thunder Twenty-four South Vietnamese Air Force planes, led by Vice-Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky and supported by U.S. jets, bomb the barracks and depots on Con Co ("Tiger") Island, 20 miles off the coast of North Vietnam. The next day, 100 U.S. Air Force jets and carrier-based bombers struck the ammunition depot at Phu Qui, 100 miles south of Hanoi. This was the second set of raids in Operation Rolling Thunder and the first in which U.S. planes used napalm.
1969: Nixon discusses the possibility of U.S. troop withdrawals At a news conference, President Richard Nixon says there is no prospect for a U.S. troop reduction in the foreseeable future because of the ongoing enemy offensive. Nixon stated that the prospects for withdrawal would hinge on the level of enemy activity, progress in the Paris peace talks, and the ability of the South Vietnamese to defend themselves. Despite these public comments, Nixon and his advisers were secretly discussing U.S. troop withdrawals. On June 8, at a conference on Midway Island with South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, Nixon formally announced a new policy that included intensified efforts to increase the combat capability of the South Vietnamese armed forces so that U.S. forces could be gradually withdrawn. This program became known as "Vietnamization." The first U.S. troop withdrawals occurred in the fall of 1969 with the departure of the headquarters and a brigade from the 9th Infantry Division.
source: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?

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