[Homer_J_Simpson]

2 Destroyers Hit – 2-3
Boats, Debris, Japanese Filled Sea, Says Flier Who Bombed Convoy – 3-4
War News Summarized – 4
Japanese Servile While Prisoners (Hailey) – 5
Rzhev Drive Gains (Parker) – 5-6
Fortresses Blast Reich Rail Center – 7
Abandoned by Nazis in Hasty Retreat before Red Army (photo) – 7
Nazis Gain 4 Miles in North Africa; U.S. Patrols Push Near Faid Pass (Kluckhohn) – 8-9
U.S. Libyan Service Hastens Supplies – 9
7 More Axis Ships Sunk Off Africa – 9
Woman Trips, Causing Jam, 178 Die in London Shelter – 10
Speed March Tops Rangers’ Course (Bracker) – 11
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 12-14

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/mar1943/f05mar43.htm

Harris hits German industrial heartland
Friday, March 5, 1943 www.onwar.com

British bomber over the Ruhr industrial area [photo at link]

Over Germany... Battle of the Ruhr. In the first of a series of bombing raids against the German Ruhr industrial area, RAF Bomber Command sends 443 aircraft to attack Essen, losing 14 aircraft.

On the Eastern Front... Hoth’s 4th Panzer Army inflicts heavy casualties on three Soviet corps west of Izyum but it cannot continue attacking because the Donets River is blocked with floating ice, preventing bridging operations.