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History on the 18th of March 1941

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18 Mar 1941 WW2 US and Canada declared a joint defense pact, which included cooperation in ship building efforts on the Great Lakes. 
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18 Mar 1941 WW2 Italian troops bombarded Fort Dologorodoc near Keren, Eritrea, Italian East Africa, which British and Indian had only recently gained. 
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18 Mar 1941 WW2 Erwin Rommel departed North Africa for a meeting with Adolf Hitler. 
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18 Mar 1941 WW2 The US Marine Corps 7th Defense Battalion arrived at American Samoa. 
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18 Mar 1941 WW2 Adolf Hitler met with Wilhelm Keitel, Alfred Jodl, and Erich Raeder; Raeder urged Hitler to convince Japan to attack Singapore and recommended Hitler to reveal the plans of the Soviet invasion to Japan. 
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18 Mar 1941 WW2 British bombers attacked Vlorë, Albania, sinking Italian torpedo boat Aldebaran. 
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18 Mar 1941 WW2 German submarine U-105 attacked Allied convoy SL-68 west of Senegal, French West Africa at 0400 hours, sinking British ship Medjerda, killing the entire crew of 52 and 2 gunners. 
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18 Mar 1941 WW2 German armed merchant cruiser Kormoran transferred 7 torpedoes to submarine U-124 1,050 miles southwest of Cape Verde Islands. 
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18 Mar 1941 WW2 Battleship Bismarck entered the Baltic Sea for trials. 
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18 Mar 1941 WW2 Germany centralized all coal mining and distribution. 
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18 Mar 1941 WW2 British armed boarding vessel Rosaura, carrying Italian prisoners of war, hit a mine and sank off Tobruk, Libya. 14 crew, 5 guards, and 59 Italians were killed. 
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18 Mar 1941 WW2 British Swordfish torpedo bombers of Fleet Air Arm 830 Naval Air Squadron based in Malta bombed the harbor at Tripoli, Libya; 1 Swordfish aircraft was shot down, with its crew of 2 taken prisoner. 
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18 Mar 1941 WW2 The French government-in-exile in Britain established a central bank. 
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18 Mar 1941 WW2 German 1st S-boat Flotilla (with 6 motor torpedo boats) raided shipping on the east coast of England, United Kingdom, sinking French ship Daphne II off the Humber Estuary. 
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18 Mar 1941 WW2 Douglas Bader was promoted to the rank of wing commander. 
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