Rommel left Africa for good on March 9, yet here he is still making headlines three weeks later.
Main Forts Taken (Sulzberger) – 2-3
‘Impossible’ Waste Crossed by British Flanking Column (by Don Whitehead, first-time contributor) – 4
Yanks Scale Peak Under German Fire – 4-5
Italians Prepare Nation for Worst – 5
War News Summarized – 5
Air Blows Heavy – 6
Russians Gain Toward Smolensk; Tanks and Infantry Hit Defenses – 7
Six-Week Old Baby Gets Father’s Medals (photo) – 7
When Stalin Put Russia’s Scorched Earth Policy in Force (photos) – 8
U.S. Strategy Set for Pacific ‘Action’ (Shalett) – 9
U.S. Navy On Alert in the Aleutians – 10
Chinese Score Coup in Hupeh-Hunan Area; Strike Behind Enemy Line in Fierce Attack – 10
College Students Unruly in India (Matthews) – 11
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 13-14
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/mar1943/f30mar43.htm
Nazi blockade runner torched
Tuesday, March 30, 1943 www.onwar.com
In the North Atlantic... In the Denmark Strait, the crew of the German blockade runner Regensburg set fire to the ship to avoid capture when intercepted by the British light cruiser HMS Glasgow. Only 6 members of the German crew survive.