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History on the 20th of March 1942

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20 Mar 1942 WW2 USS Yorktown patrolled the Coral Sea. 
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20 Mar 1942 WW2 USS Lexington set sail for Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii after raiding New Guinea. 
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20 Mar 1942 WW2 German submarine U-71 sank US tanker Oakmar over 200 kilometers east of Hampton Roads, Virginia, United States at 2054 hours, killing 6 of 36 aboard. 
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20 Mar 1942 WW2 South Dakota was commissioned into service. 
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20 Mar 1942 WW2 The United States and New Zealand completed a discussion which concluded that the US would be responsible for defending the Samoan islands. 
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20 Mar 1942 WW2 The United States Air Forces in the Philippines was established, replacing the Far East Air Force. 
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20 Mar 1942 WW2 The keel of US submarine Scorpion was laid down. 
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20 Mar 1942 WW2 J2M Raiden aircraft took its first flight. 
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20 Mar 1942 WW2 Japanese 143rd Regiment and a cavalry formation of the Japanese 55th Division attacked troops the Cavalry Regiment of the Chinese 5th Army north of the Kan River in Burma. 
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20 Mar 1942 WW2 German submarine U-652 damaged destroyer HMS Heythrop 40 miles northeast of Bardia, Libya at 1054 hours, killing 15; Heythrop was sailing with 6 other destroyers on an anti-submarine sweep for Allied convoy MW10. At about 1600 hours, after 151 survivors had been taken off by destroyer HMS Eridge, Heythrop sank while under tow. 
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20 Mar 1942 WW2 Major General Brian Horrocks assumed command of the British 9th Armoured Division in place of Major General Brocas Burrows who had been moved to command 11th Armoured Division. 
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20 Mar 1942 WW2 Douglas MacArthur made the "I came through and I shall return" speech at Terowie, South Australia, Australia while transferring trains. 
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20 Mar 1942 WW2 The US Navy set up a new radio intelligence station at Melbourne, Australia; many of the staff members of this new station were recently evacuated from station CAST at Corregidor, Philippine Islands. 
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20 Mar 1942 WW2 Japanese bombers attacked Port Moresby in Australian Papua while four fighters strafed the nearby Seven Mile airfield. 
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20 Mar 1942 WW2 German armed merchant cruiser Michel departed La Pallice, France for the South Atlantic. 
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20 Mar 1942 WW2 Allies in Libya attacked Benghazi and Derna, diverting attention from an important convoy for Malta. 
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20 Mar 1942 WW2 Jonathan Wainwright received the official US War Department order promoting him to the rank of lieutenant general and placing him charge of US troops in the Philippine Islands, replacing Douglas MacArthur, who had been ordered to go to Australia by Franklin Roosevelt. 
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20 Mar 1942 WW2 Gas chambers of Block I of Auschwitz II (Birkenau) Concentration Camp began extermination operations. 
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20 Mar 1942 WW2 Soviet Army's Kerch offensive in Russia was defeated with heavy losses. To the west, German counter attack at Sevastopol failed, resulting in the loss of the 22nd Division. 
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20 Mar 1942 WW2 USS Hornet arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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