9 Mar 1943 | World War II Database

9 Mar 1943

Erwin Rommel departed North Africa on account of health reasons. ww2dbase [Erwin Rommel | CPC]
Operation Boarding Party: SOE deployed the Calcutta Light Horse regiment to attack the German ship Ehrenfels in the neutral Portuguese port of Goa. This covert operation was not revealed to the public until 1978. ww2dbase [CPC]
Yekaterina Budanova shot down a Bf 109 fighter, sharing the credit with other pilots. ww2dbase [Yekaterina Budanova | CPC]
German submarine U-586 sank US merchant ship Puerto Rican of Allied convoy RA-53 northeast of Iceland; 61 were killed, 1 survived. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | CPC]
SS Oberstumbannfuhrer Joachim Peiper, formerly Heinrich Himmler's adjutant, was awarded the Knights Cross for outstanding leadership and bravery on the Eastern Front. ww2dbase [AC]
HMS Cumberland returned to Iceland. ww2dbase [Cumberland | DS]
USS Nicholas arrived at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. ww2dbase [Nicholas | DS]

British Western Pacific Territories

The Japanese Navy Kure 6th Special Naval Landing Force landed between Bairoko and Enogai and near the Munda airfield on New Georgia in the Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Solomon Islands Campaign | Munda, New Georgia | CPC]
Rear Admiral Minoru Ota, commanding officer of the Japanese Navy 8th Combined Special Landing Force, was given responsibility for the defense of New Georgia in the Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Minoru Ota | New Georgia | CPC]

Pacific Ocean

USS Sunfish damaged a Japanese transport in the East China Sea with 3 of 4 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Sunfish (Gato-class) | East China Sea | CPC]

United States

40,000 people attended an event at Madison Square Garden, New York, New York, United States organized by Peter Bergson to raise awareness of the Nazi extermination of European Jews. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | New York | CPC]
USS Ranger departed Norfolk, Virginia bound for Quonset Point, Rhode Island. ww2dbase [Norfolk Navy Yard | Ranger | Norfolk, Virginia | DS]