19 Mar 1942
- Operations Munich and Bamberg were launched against Soviet partisans, though tactical successes turned out to be counter-productive, encouraging more civilians to join the partisans. ww2dbase [TH]
- Lieutenant General William Slim was ordered to lead the Burma Corps. ww2dbase [William Slim | CPC]
- British censorship on caricatures, obituaries, and football scores led to widespread complaint; Home Secretary Morrison threatened Daily Mirror with shut down order unless the newspaper obeyed the censorship laws. ww2dbase [CPC]
- German submarine U-124 sank US tanker Papoose 25 miles south of Cape Fear, North Carolina, United States at 0431 hours; 2 were killed, 32 survived. To the northwest, German submarine U-332 sank US freighter Liberator off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina at 0419 hours; 5 were killed, 30 survived. At 0538 hours, U-124 attacked again off Cape Fear, sinking US tanker W. E. Hutton; 13 were killed, 12 survived. ww2dbase [Second Happy Time | CPC]
- The advance echelon of US Marine Aircraft Group 13 arrived at the newly-completed airfield at Tutuila, American Samoa. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Japanese troops captured Pyu, Burma. ww2dbase [Invasion of Burma | CPC]
- USS St. Louis departed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii as an escort for a convoy bound for San Francisco, California. ww2dbase [St. Louis | DS]
- Japanese bombers attacked Port Moresby, Australian Papua. ww2dbase [Port Moresby | CPC]
- The keel of seaplane tender Hermann Köhl was laid down by the F. Schichau yard in Königsburg, Germany. ww2dbase [F. Schichau Königsburg | Hermann Köhl | Königsburg, Ostpreußen | CPC]
- Yugure arrived at Ise Bay, Japan at 0000 hours, and departed at 1700 hours. ww2dbase [Yugure | Ise Bay | CPC]
- At Bataan Peninsula at Luzon, Philippine Islands, US and Filipino troops were put on quarter rations (1000 calories) as the food supplies dwindled. The supply of quinine, a medicine for malaria, had also depleted. ww2dbase [Invasion of the Philippine Islands | CPC]
- German Armeegruppe Nord cut off General Vlasov's Soviet 2nd Shock Army in a salient on the Volkhov River near Novgorod 50 miles southeast of Leningrad, Russia. ww2dbase [Siege of Leningrad | Novgorod | TH, CPC]
- USS Honolulu arrived at Tutuila, Samoa. ww2dbase [Honolulu | Pago Pago, American Samoa | DS]
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