The Battle for the Atlantic had been going on since 1939, when Germany commenced submarine warfare against the Allies, and principally against the United Kingdom. This period of the war, however, eighty years ago, was the German U-boot "Happy Time". During this period the British were struggling against massive U-boot losses.
On this day, therefore, Winston Churchill issued his Battle of the Atlantic Directive. You can read it here:
The ‘Battle of the Atlantic’ begins
The British were actually getting ahead of the problem by this period and the Happy Time was about to end.
The Luftwaffe was expanding its operations against Allied shipping on this day, conducting aerial mining against the Suez Canal, which you can read about here:
Today in World War II History—March 6, 1941
As the item above notes, famed sculptor Gutzon Borglum, best remembered for Mount Rushmore, died at age 73 on this day.
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