US troops regained most of the ground lost on Bougainville in a counterattack.
37th Infantry Division soldier firing Thompson submachinegun on Bougainville, March 13, 1944.
Light tank in action, Bougainville.
Artillery in action, Bougainville.
U.S. forces overrun the small Japanese garrison at Hauwei.
In northwest Indian, the 17th and 20th Indian Divisions were authorized to pull back to Imphal. Mountbatten requested American aircraft to supply the Chinese and to redeploy the 5th Indian Division from the Arakan.
Japanese aircraft attacked the Broadway airfield being used to supply the Chindits.
The Kingdom of Italy and the Soviet Union restored diplomatic relations with each other.
The Red Army took Kherson.
The U-575 was sunk in the Atlantic. The Japanese cruiser Tatsuta was sunk off Hachijō-jima by the American submarine Sand Lance.
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