The Japanese launched Operation U-Go on the Indian Burmese border.
It was a major Japanese offensive, and would be one of their last.
In Germany, the National Socialist Women's League (Nationalsozialistische Frauenschaft, abbreviated NS-Frauenschaft) started making house calls to recruit women between the ages of 17 and 45 to work in "the service of the community" as part of an effort to address the German labor shortage.
Navajo woman with carrots, near Phoenix, Arizona, March 7, 1944.
On Bougainville, the Japanese were preparing for an assault, which is the same day these men of the 37th Infantry Division were photographed.
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