US NAVY
PACIFIC—TF 17 (Rear Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher) and TF 16
(Rear Admiral Raymond A. Spruance) rendezvous about 350 miles northeast of
Midway; Rear Admiral Fletcher is officer in tactical command of a force that
consists of three carriers, seven heavy cruisers, one light cruiser, 16
destroyers, and two oilers. After fueling, the task force will detach the
oilers and prepare for battle. As part of the pre-battle disposition, 25 fleet
submarines (Rear Admiral Robert H. English) are deployed around Midway.
INDIAN OCEAN—Japanese merchant cargo ship Kofuku Maru is
sunk by mine off Rangoon, Burma.
ATLANTIC—German submarine U-404 sinks U.S. freighter
West Notus (which she had shelled the day before) with explosive charge
off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina (see 3 and 4 June).
U.S.
freighter Domino is machine-gunned by unidentified submarine off
Nuevitas, Cuba; the ship suffers no casualties.
Unarmed
U.S. freighter City of Alma is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-159
about 400 miles northeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico, 23°00'N, 62°30'W;
district patrol craft YP-67 rescues the 10 survivors from the 36 man merchant
complement.
CARIBBEAN—U.S. merchantman Thomas Nelson rescues
nine survivors from U.S. freighter Alcoa Pilgrim, sunk by German
submarine U-502 on 27 May.
US ARMY AIR FORCE
FIFTH AF—B‑17’s bomb dock and military camp area at Rabaul.
SEVENTH AF—6 of 16 B‑17’s that have been on detached
service at Midway return to Oahu.
ZONE OF THE INTERIOR—Aircraft and crews of 97th Bomb Group,
then in New England for movement to UK, are ordered to W coast as defensive
measure again attack on US.
US ARMY
PACIFIC OCEAN AREA—Naval
TF’s of Adms Fletcher and Spruance rendezvous 350 miles NE of Midway. The combined
force (3 carriers, 7 CA’s, 1 CL, 13 DD’s, and 25 submarines), under command of Admiral
Fletcher, moves to point about 200 miles N of Midway. Reconnoitering from the
Aleutians, PBY discovers 2 enemy carriers about 400 miles S of Kiska.
USSR—German 11th Army of Army Group South begins
5-day artillery preparation for assault on Sevastopol in the Crimea.
US MARINE CORPS
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