US NAVY
INDIAN OCEAN—Submarine Seawolf (SS-197) is damaged
by depth charges off Christmas Island, 10°26'S, 105°41'E.
CARIBBEAN—Commander of Allied Forces Aruba and Curacao,
Netherlands West Indies, is established (Rear Admiral Jesse B. Oldendorf).
ATLANTIC—Unarmed U.S. tug Menominee and the barges
that she is towing--Allegheny, Barnegat, and Ontario--are shelled
by German submarine U-754 about 50 miles off the mouth of Chesapeake Bay
at 37°34'N, 75°25'W. U-754 sinks Menominee and barges Allegheny
and Barnegat; Ontario, with its dunnage cargo, remains afloat and
provides a life preserver for the three men who had been on board each barge.
Of Menominee's crew of 18 men, however, only two survive the U-boat's
gunfire. Coast Guard lifeboat from the Metomkin Inlet station rescues the men
from the barges while tanker Northern Sun rescues the tug crew's
survivors. Later the same day, U-754 torpedoes unarmed U.S. tanker
Tiger as the American vessel, en route to Norfolk, waits to embark a pilot.
One crewman dies in the initial explosion; the surviving 36 men of the ship's
complement, in addition to a six man Navy gun crew riding the ship as
passengers, abandon the ship (see 1 and 2 April).
Unarmed
U.S. tanker T.C. McCobb, en route to Caripito, Venezuela from Buenos
Aires, Argentina, is shelled, torpedoed, and sunk by Italian submarine Pietro
Calvi at 07°10'N, 45°20'W; one crewman drowns and one is killed by
shellfire (see 8 and 10 April and 16 May).
Destroyer Roper
(DD-147) and tug Acushnet (AT-63) rescue 124 survivors (including a
newborn infant) of U.S. steamship City of New York, sunk by U-160 off
Cape Hatteras on 29 March (see 12 April).
US ARMY AIR FORCE
ARMY AIR FORCES—General Spaatz suggests that the now
‘task-less Eighth’ be made nucleus for AAFIB
US ARMY
BURMA—Chinese 200th Division
makes contact with Chinese 22d Division N of Toungoo and withdraws N of
Pyinmana as reserve. With loss of Toungoo, road to Mawchi is left undefended
and Japanese, during next few days, overrun small Chinese garrison at Mawchi; continue
E, forcing elements of Chinese T-55th Division back to Bawlake
US MARINE CORPS
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