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Monday, 9 March 1942 - Lorient
US Navy Admiral Ernest King is appointed Chief of Naval Operations; he is to maintain his responsibility as the Commander-in-Chief (CominCh) of the US Navy.
Admiral Harold Stark, formerly the American Chief of Naval Operations, is appointed as Commander of the United States Naval Forces in European waters with his headquarters in London.
At 0640 hours, British aircraft is spotting the German fleet centered around battleship Tirpitz. At 0730 hours, British carrier HMS Victorious launches 12 Albacore aircraft to attack, reaching Tirpitz and destroyer Friedrich Ihn at 0830 hours. The attack causes no damage to the German warships; two Albacore aircraft are lost. Tripitz and her escorts arrive at Narvik later that day.
A second British air raid to Essen, Germany, again using the new GEE navigational system, has similar dismal results as the first raid on the previous day, as the haze makes the target difficult to spot.
Japanese troops enter undefended Rangoon, Burma, abandoned by British troops two days prior.
Japanese cruisers Kumano, Chokai, and cruiser division 7 depart Singapore to cover Operation T - The Invasion of Northern Sumatra.
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Tuesday, 10 March 1942 - Lorient
The US Marine Corps purchases the 132,000-acre Santa Margarita Ranch situated north of San Diego, California, for a future base; it will become Camp Pendleton later this year.
The United States Office of Scientific Research and Development moves the proximity fuze development project from the Carnegie Institution in Washington, DC to The Johns Hopkins University in Maryland at the newly formed Applied Physics Laboratory, that had operated out of the former Wolfe Motor Company used car dealership in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Overnight, 62 RAF bombers attack Essen, Germany, damaging railways leading to Krupp factories, killing 6 civilians and wounding 12.
After dark and into the next morning, Indian troops on Christmas Island, led by Sikh policemen, mutiny and kill five of their British officers and imprison 21 Europeans.
USS Lexington and USS Yorktown launch aircraft to attack the Japanese invasion force at New Guinea.
US Army General MacArthur once again receives orders to evacuate the Philippine Islands.