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Wednesday, 18 March 1942 - Lorient
The first A4 rocket explodes on Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany, during a combustion chamber test.
Louis Mountbatten is appointed as the British Chief of Combined Operations.
Douglas MacArthur officially accepts the position of the Supreme Commander of Southwest Pacific Area, while still aboard a train traveling for Melbourne, Australia.
US President Franklin Roosevelt signs an Executive Order for the establishment of the War Relocation Authority, which will lead to the internment of Japanese-Americans during WW2.
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Thursday, 19 March 1942 - Lorient
German Armeegruppe Nord cuts off General Vlasov's Soviet 2nd Shock Army in a salient on the Volkhov River near Novgorod, 50 miles southeast of Leningrad, Russia.
Operations Munich and Bamberg are launched against Soviet partisans, though a tactical success, they will turn out to be counter-productive, encouraging more civilians to join the partisans.
British censorship on caricatures, obituaries, and football scores, lead to widespread complaint; Home Secretary Morrison threatens Daily Mirror with shut down order, unless the newspaper obeys the censorship laws.
Japanese troops capture Pyu, Burma, and Japanese bombers attack Port Moresby, Australian Papua.
At Bataan Peninsula at Luzon, Philippine Islands, US and Filipino troops are put on quarter rations (1000 calories), as the food supplies dwindle. The supply of quinine, a medicine for malaria, has also depleted.