6 Mar 1942
  • USS Lexington made rendezvous with USS Yorktown and sailed for a raid on Rabaul, New Britain. ww2dbase [Lexington (Lexington-class) | CPC]
  • USS Yorktown made rendezvous with USS Lexington and sailed for a raid on Rabaul, New Britain. ww2dbase [Yorktown (Yorktown-class) | CPC]
  • Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Palau. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | CPC]
  • HMS Indomitable launched the Hurricane fighters of No. 30 Squadron for Colombo, Ceylon. ww2dbase [Indomitable | CPC]
  • German submarine U-505 sank Norwegian tanker Sydhav off Sierra Leone, British West Africa at 1131 hours; 12 were killed, 24 survived. Also in that morning, Italian submarine Tazzoli sank Dutch freighter Astrea in the Central Atlantic. Tazzoli struck again at 2215 hours, sinking Norwegian ship Tønsberg Fjord; all 33 aboard survived. At 2306 hours, 150 miles south of Iceland, U-701 sank British fishing trawler Rononia, killing all 11 aboard. Italian submarine Finzi sank French tanker Melpomene; all 49 aboard survived. Finally, 50 miles south of Newfoundland, German submarine U-587 sank Greenland merchant ship Hans Egede, killing all 23 aboard. ww2dbase [Second Happy Time | Giuseppe Finzi | CPC]
  • Merchant ship El Occidente and Soviet anti-submarine whaler Stefa fell out of Allied convoy PQ-12 in poor weather. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | CPC]
  • Commander Gerald D. Linke was named the commanding officer of USS Helena, relieving Captain Robert Henry English, Jr. ww2dbase [Helena (St. Louis-class) | CPC]
  • Karl Burk was promoted to the rank of SS-Standartenführer. ww2dbase [Karl Burk | CPC]
  • Ariake and Yugure received fuel from ships of the First Supply Unit. ww2dbase [Yugure | CPC]
Atlantic Ocean
  • German Type IXC U-Boat U-505 torpedoed and sunk the Norwegian tanker Sydhav off British West Africa (Sierra Leone). 12 were killed and 24 were rescued. ww2dbase [U-505 | Second Happy Time | DS]
Burma
  • Anglo-Indian and Japanese troops clashed at various roadblocks near Rangoon, Burma. ww2dbase [Invasion of Burma | Rangoon | CPC]
Dutch East Indies
  • Japanese aircraft attacked Surabaya, Java, Dutch East Indies, damaging Dutch minesweeper Jan van Amstel, killing 23. Dutch sailors scuttled minesweepers C and Pieter de Bitter, also at Surabaya, to prevent capture. ww2dbase [Dutch East Indies Campaign, Java | Surabaya, Java | CPC]
Germany
  • The first conference on the plan to sterilize persons of mixed blood in Germany was held. ww2dbase [CPC]
Hawaii Malaya Norway
  • German battleship Tirpitz and 4 destroyers departed Trondheim, Norway to intercept Allied convoys PQ-12 and QP-8, which departed from Reykjavik in Iceland for Murmansk in Russia and from Murmansk in Russia for Hvalfjörður in Iceland, respectively. The British Royal Navy learned of this departure via Ultra decryption and dispatched a fleet centered around battleships HMS Duke of York, HMS King George V, and HMS Renown to attack. ww2dbase [Tirpitz | Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag | CPC]
United States Photo(s) dated 6 Mar 1942
British officer studying a captured German 2.8cm sPzB 41 anti-tank gun, North Africa, 6 Mar 1942USS St. Louis off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 6 Mar 1942Overhead view of the after decks of cruiser USS St. Louis at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, USS, 6 Mar 1942.Overhead view of the forward decks of cruiser USS St. Louis at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, USS, 6 Mar 1942.
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Timeline Section Founder: Thomas Houlihan
Contributors: Alan Chanter, C. Peter Chen, Thomas Houlihan, Hugh Martyr, David Stubblebine
Special Thanks: Rory Curtis




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