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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.
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Friday, 13 March 1942 - Lorient
Stephen Beattie is made the commanding officer of destroyer HMS Campbeltown.
Overnight, 135 RAF bombers attack Köln, Germany, killing 62 and wounding 84.
A major Soviet attack is launched out of the Kerch Peninsula in Russia, in an attempt to relieve the besieged city of Sevastopol on the Crimea.
Warrant Officer Nobuo Fujita, flying in a submarine-based (submarine I-25) E14Y aircraft, conducts a photographic reconnaissance mission over Auckland, New Zealand.