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Thursday, 5 March 1942 - Lorient
Tirpitz, escorted by destroyers, departs for the Arctic Ocean to intercept Allied convoys in Operation Sportpalast.
The British government announces that, according to information shared with the United Kingdom by the Japanese government, there are 5,072 British, 1,689 Canadian, 3,829 Indian, and 357 men of other nationalities currently under captivity in Hong Kong as prisoners of war.
Conscription in Britain is extended to include men aged between 41 and 45.
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Friday, 6 March 1942 - Lorient
Tirpitz and 4 destroyers depart Drontheim, to intercept Allied convoys PQ-12 and QP-8, which departed from Reykjavik in Iceland for Murmansk in Russia and from Murmansk in Russia for Hvalfjörður in Iceland, respectively.
The British Royal Navy learn of this departure via Ultra decryption and dispatch a fleet centered around battleships HMS Duke of York, HMS King George V, and HMS Renown to attack.