March 14: In Nazi Germany, what is control cable Wernher von Braun (a future NASA star) is detained temporarily for spending time and money on projects that have little to do with the imperialist aims of the Reich. Safety Glasses - About 1.25 million eye injuries occur in American homes every year, and many home repair projects are prime candidates for potential eye injuries. Chinese and American tank forces engage the remnants of a Japanese marine division at Burma's Tanai River. Even before this, Japanese forces in the Pacific faced severe shortages, largely because of rivalry within the Japanese system. At war's end, Allied forces gradually accepted the surrender of large garrisons, including 38,000 on Truk, 100,000 at Rabaul, and 40,000 in the Halmaheras. In 1941 he led a guerrilla unit against the Italians in Ethiopia, where his 1,700-man force eventually accepted the surrender of 20,000 enemy soldiers. In 1943 and 1944, he led a long-range penetration brigade, the famed "Chindits," against the Japanese in Burma. Shortages of food and clothing led to price controls and rationing, while defeats such as the loss of Saipan could not be concealed.

Neither would swap. Japanese soldiers simply took food from local people. Allies execute dual assaults in Italy: The Allied landing at Anzio and the initial Allied assault on the Italian town of Cassino both took place in January 1944. Allied leadership hoped that the Anzio landing would bypass the Germans' formidable Gustav Line and divert and weaken German defenses at Cassino, the key position on the line. Bombing raids left Cassino in ruins. But in May, the Allies finally broke through both at Anzio and Cassino. The Marianas see action for the first time during the war, as the Allies launch a series of air attacks against the Japanese on the islands of Guam, Saipan, Tinian, and Rota. March 3: The Allies reveal that the U.S., Britain, and Soviet Union will share equally in the war spoils of the Italian navy. The real story will be what happens when the console hits the streets.

March 11: In the first of what will be many trials of French "collaborators" (French men and women who aided and abetted the Nazis), Vichy interior minister Pierre Pucheu receives a guilty verdict and a death sentence. Japanese war veterans stigmatized In Japan: The popular Japanese rhetoric celebrating heroic death on the battlefield left wounded veterans in an uncomfortable situation when they returned home maimed but alive. Can you make money working from home? March 12: Czechoslovakia's government-in-exile sends a message to Czech citizens back home to revolt against the occupying Nazis. Job had passed secrets to the Nazis in letters using invisible ink. A man of letters himself, Franklin dove into the task with a firm resolve to speed up communication between the colonies. Patriotic slogans -- "Deny one's self and serve the nation" -- proliferated in an effort to stiffen Japanese resolve. March 4: The Japanese authorities order schoolchildren as young as 12 to mobilize for the war effort.

The INA allied itself with the Japanese during the war. British Indian nationalist Subhas Chandra Bose, INA fight against the British: Indian nationalist Subhas Chandra Bose became commander-in-chief of the Indian National Army (INA). Though official records claim Bose died in a plane crash in 1945, his actual fate remains uncertain. A former president of the Indian National Congress, Bose rejected Mohandas Gandhi's nonviolent resistance to British colonial rule, declaring, "Give me blood and I shall give you freedom!" His 85,000-man INA fought alongside the Japanese in the defeats at Kohima and Imphal. British major general Orde Wingate known for eccentricities: Eccentric British major general Orde Wingate wore an alarm clock on his wrist and snacked on raw onions. March 7: The British House of Commons debates whether popular singers, singing about the hardships of war on the BBC, damage morale on the front. March 15: Responding to Hungary's recent flirtation with the Allies, German troops stage along the border, forewarning an invasion. As many as six million workers in northern Italy strike in protest of deportations of Italians to German slave labor camps. March 1: Nazi Germany announces that it has detained and enslaved some five million foreign nationals to fulfill the Reich's war-related labor needs.