Status - John Skinner - USS O'Brien:
O'Brien has been stationed at Pearl Harbor, and is doing patrol and escort duty from there.
U. S. Navy Task Forces:
- Task Force 17 (Yorktown) was to remain in the South Pacific area and continue raids and offensive operations.
- Task Force 11 (Lexington) left the South Pacific and sailed for Pearl Harbor.
- Task Force 16 (Enterprise) had completed its raids and returned to Pearl Harbor.
Other Events:
- March 11: General MacArthur begins his evacuation from the Philippines, taking a PT boat from Bataan to the southern Philippine island of Mindanao and reaching there on the 13th. MacArthur flew to Australia on the 17th.
- Army troops arrive at Noumea, New Caledonia, to establish a base there.
- Four more freighters and a tanker are sunk in the Atlantic, March 11-14.
- Japanese Army and Navy planners began to discuss an operation to take Midway Island, or alternatively, to take Fiji, Samoa, and other islands between Hawaii and Australia.
More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 167-169.
- The First South Pacific Campaign, John B. Lundstrom, pp. 39-58.
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