Captain Robert S. Marcus leads a Passover Seder for men of the 365th Fighter Group on a fighter-bomber base in Germany on March 29, 1945. This was the first public Passover Seder in Germany since 1938. This base, it should be noted, was extremely far forward. The Allies had only crossed the Rhine on March 7, with the seizure of the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen. On the same day, 60 Jewish forces laborer's were murdered in the Deutsch Schützen massacre
The Battle of the Heiligenbell Pocket ended in a victory for the Red Army.
The 7th Army took Mannheim and Heidelberg.
The last V1 to hit London did so.
US forces landed near Bacolod in the Philippines.
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