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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.
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Thursday, 12 March 1942 - Lorient
Allied convoy PQ-12 arrives at Murmansk, Russia.
Tirpitz arrives at Drontheim, Norway.
British authorities evacuate the Andaman Islands.
On Sumatra, Dutch East Indies, Japanese troops land at Sabang, Koetaradja, Idi and Laboehanroekoe. They capture the airfield at Medan in the morning.
British General Sitwell, Australian Brigadier Blackburn, and US Colonel Searle formally surrender to Japanese General Maruyama at Bandung, Java, Dutch East Indies.
Troops of US Americal Division occupy the French colony of New Caledonia in the South Pacific, where a major base at Nouméa is planned to be built in the near future.
In the United States, The Portland Branch of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank Evacuee Property Department is established in response to President Franklin Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066. The branch is to assist Japanese-Americans in disposing property holdings and to protect against fraud, forced sales, and unscrupulous creditors.