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**Twelve [[Fairey Albacore]] [[torpedo bomber]]s from the aircraft carrier {{HMS|Victorious|R38|6}} attack the German [[battleship]] [[German battleship Tirpitz|”Tirpitz”]] while she is at sea off [[Norway]]. They score no hits, and ”Tirpitz” shoots down two Albacores. It is the only time that [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] forces attack ”Tirpitz” while she is in the open sea.<ref>Humble, Richard, ”Hitler{{‘}}s High Seas Fleet”, New York: Ballantine Books, 1971, p. 112.</ref><ref>Sturtivant, Ray, ”British Naval Aviation: The Fleet Air Arm, 1917-1990”, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1990, {{ISBN|0-87021-026-2}}, p. 107.</ref>
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**Twelve [[Fairey Albacore]] [[torpedo bomber]]s from the aircraft carrier {{HMS|Victorious|R38|6}} attack the German [[battleship]] [[German battleship Tirpitz|”Tirpitz”]] while she is at sea off [[Norway]]. They score no hits, and ”Tirpitz” shoots down two Albacores. It is the only time that [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] forces attack ”Tirpitz” while she is in the open sea.<ref>Humble, Richard, ”Hitler{{‘}}s High Seas Fleet”, New York: Ballantine Books, 1971, p. 112.</ref><ref>Sturtivant, Ray, ”British Naval Aviation: The Fleet Air Arm, 1917-1990”, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1990, {{ISBN|0-87021-026-2}}, p. 107.</ref>
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**The [[United States Army Air Forces]] are reorganized, with the separate Air Force Combat Command (the combat element) and [[United States Army Air Corps]] (the logistics and training element) discontinued. [[General officer|General]] [[Henry H. Arnold]], formerly Chief of the Army Air Forces, becomes Commanding General of Army Air Forces.<ref>Maurer, p. 1.</ref> The term “Air Corps” survives until 1947, but only as a reference to the aviation branch of service of the [[United States Army]] without indicating any formal organization.
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**The [[United States Army Air Forces]] are reorganized, with the separate Air Force Combat Command (the combat element) and [[United States Army Air Corps]] (the logistics and training element) discontinued. [[General officer|General]] [[Henry H. Arnold]], formerly Chief of the Army Air Forces, becomes Commanding General of Army Air Forces.<ref>Maurer, p. 1.</ref> The term “Air Corps” survives until 1947, but only as a reference to the aviation branch of service of the [[United States Army]] without indicating any formal organization.
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**The U.S. Navy commissions [[Air Transport Squadron 1 (VR-1)]], the first of 13 squadrons it will establish for the [[Naval Air Transport Service]] during World War II, at [[Norfolk, Virginia|Norfolk]], [[Virginia]].<ref name=”vrc-50.org”>{{Cite web |url=http://www.vrc-50.org/historyNATS.htm |title=Chronology of Significant Events in Naval Aviation: “Naval Air Transport” 1941 — 1999 |access-date=2012-12-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160331224444/http://vrc-50.org/historyNATS.htm |archive-date=2016-03-31 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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* March 10 – The U.S. Navy aircraft carriers {{USS|Lexington|CV-2}} and {{USS|Yorktown|CV-5}} launch a 104-aircraft raid from south of [[New Guinea]] and over the [[Owen Stanley Mountains]] via a 7,500-foot (2,286-meter) pass to strike Japanese shipping off [[Lae]] and [[Salamaua]], New Guinea.<ref>Morison, Samuel Eliot, ”History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II, Volume III: The Rising Sun in the Pacific 1931-April 1942”, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1988, p. 388.</ref>
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* March 10 – The U.S. Navy aircraft carriers {{USS|Lexington|CV-2}} and {{USS|Yorktown|CV-5}} launch a 104-aircraft raid from south of [[New Guinea]] and over the [[Owen Stanley Mountains]] via a 7,500-foot (2,286-meter) pass to strike Japanese shipping off [[Lae]] and [[Salamaua]], New Guinea.<ref>Morison, Samuel Eliot, ”History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II, Volume III: The Rising Sun in the Pacific 1931-April 1942”, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1988, p. 388.</ref>
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* March 12–13 (overnight) – 68 British [[Vickers Wellington]] bombers raid [[Kiel]], Germany, losing five of their number.<ref name=”hinchcliffe85″/>
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* March 12–13 (overnight) – 68 British [[Vickers Wellington]] bombers raid [[Kiel]], Germany, losing five of their number.<ref name=”hinchcliffe85″/>
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