Japan preparing attack in the Bay of Bengal according to the U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary dated 16 March 1942

An item reported that the Japanese were preparing an advance in to the Bay of Bengal and that at Penang, Malaya air and light naval forces gathered.

Source

Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 96 dated 16 March 1942.