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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.
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Wednesday, 11 March 1942 - Lorient
Allied convoy QP-8 arrives at Reykjavík, Iceland.
German submarine U-565 (Oblt. Johann Jebsen) sinks the British cruiser HMS Naiad, 30 miles north of Sidi Barrani, Egypt at 2000 hours; 82 are killed, 582 survivors.
USS Hornet (Yorktown-class), USS Nashville, and their escorts transit the Panama Canal and enter the Pacific Ocean.
Japanese troops land on Mindanao, the southern-most of the Philippine Islands.
Douglas MacArthur, his family, and a small staff depart Corregidor by PT boats; General Jonathan Wainwright remains as commanding officer of US and Filipino forces in the Philippine Islands.