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March 12, 1943

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8th Army Unit Drives North, Beats Off a Rommel Column; British Set Many Vehicles Afire in Battle in Desert -- German Attack Near Sedjenane Fails -- French Menace Gafsa 8TH ARMY COLUMN REPELS NAZI FORCE

By Drew Middletonwireless To the New York Times

Brit 8th Army units drive north; beat off Rommel column, Ksar Rhilane; many Axis vehicles set afire; Ger attack near Sedjenane fails; French menace Gafsa; Flying Fortresses attack El Aouina and La Marsa airfields; Allied bombers aid 8th Army and French forces operations; Air Sec Sinclair on damage to Ital targets by RAF

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36 Nazi Tanks Destroyed; NAZIS QUIT VYASMA; IMPERIL KHARKOV

By Unknown Author

LONDON, Friday, March 12 (AP) -- Outnumbered Russian troops killed 1,200 Germans and destroyed thirty-six tanks yesterday in the violently unfolding third battle for Kharkov, but a midnight Moscow bulletin spoke ominously of an "unequal engagement" and said "the Germans are bringing up more fresh reserves."

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Notable Births

Ratko Mladić

1943Ratko Mladić, Serbian general[†]

Ratko Mladić is a Bosnian Serb former military officer who led the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) during the Yugoslav Wars. In 2017, he was found guilty of committing war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). He is serving a life sentence for these crimes in The Hague.

Notable Deaths

Gustav Vigeland

1943Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (born 1869)[†]

Gustav Vigeland, born as Adolf Gustav Thorsen, was a Norwegian sculptor. Gustav Vigeland occupies a special position among Norwegian sculptors, both in the power of his creative imagination and in his productivity. He is most associated with the Vigeland installation (Vigelandsanlegget) in Frogner Park, Oslo. The Vigeland installation made Frogner Park into Norway's most popular tourist attraction, and the park also contains Frogner Manor with the Oslo Museum and the Henriette Wegner Pavilion. Vigeland was also the designer of the Nobel Peace Prize medal.