US NAVY
PACIFIC—Light cruiser St. Louis (CL-49) arrives at
Midway and disembarks Companies "C" and "D," 2d Marine
Raider Battalion, and 37-millimeter gun battery of the 3d Defense Battalion.
Submarine Drum
(SS-228) sinks Japanese merchant cargo ship Kitakata Maru east of
Nojimazaki, Honshu, Japan,34°00'N, 139°00'E.
Submarine Permit
(SS-178) damages Japanese transport Senko Maru, 00°20'N, 118°20'N.
Submarine Pompano
(SS-181) sinks Japanese merchant tanker Tokyo Maru about 70 miles
west of Naha, Okinawa,27°03'N, 127°03'E.
Submarine Tautog
(SS-199) sinks Japanese transport Shoka Maru about 385 miles
southwest of Ulithi, Carolines,04°07'N, 143°32'N.
Small
reconnaissance seaplane from Japanese submarine I-9 reconnoiters Kiska
and Amchitka, Aleutians.
ATLANTIC—Destroyer Blakely (DD-150) is torpedoed by
German submarine U-156 off Martinique, French West Indies.
German
planes attack convoy PQ 16 as it proceeds toward Murmansk, USSR, from
Reykjavik, Iceland; U.S. freighter Carlton is damaged by near-misses.
She leaves the convoy under tow of British trawler HMS Northern Spray. There
are no casualties among Carlton's 35 man merchant crew or 11 man Armed
Guard (see 26 May 1942)
GULF OF MEXICO—Unarmed U.S. freighter Alcoa Carrier is
torpedoed and shelled by German submarine U-103 at 18°45'N, 79°50'W, and
abandoned. U-103 surfaces and her commanding officer asks the Americans
for the name and speed of their ship, and if all of her men have been accounted
for, before he provides them with cigarettes. Alcoa Carrier sinks early
the following morning, after which time the U-boat departs (see 30 May).
Mexican
freighter Oaxaca rescues three survivors from U.S. tanker Halo, sunk
by German submarine U-506 on 20 May; two of the men recovered, however,
will die of their wounds (see 27 May).
CARIBBEAN—Destroyer Goff (DD-247) scuttles the hulk
of U.S. tanker Samuel Q. Brown, torpedoed by German submarine U-103 on
24 May.
US ARMY AIR FORCE
TENTH AF—4 B‑17’s bomb Rangoon during 24/25 May.
FIFTH AF—B‑17’s bomb Vunakanau airfield at Rabaul.
US ARMY
INDIA—Chinese 38th Division
(-113th Regiment, which acts as rear guard) reaches India.
US MARINE CORPS
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