1 March 1942
War at Sea
German submarine U-656 sunk with all hands off Cape Race by a Lockheed PBO-1 of US Navy squadron VP-82, the first U-boat to be sunk by the US Navy.
Eastern Front
Soviet offensive begins in the Crimea
United States
It is decided to court-martial the senior officers at Pearl Harbor
How to cite this article: Rickard, J (28 December 2007), 1 March 1942, http://www.historyofwar.org/secondworldwar/date/1942_03_01.html
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