US NAVY
ATLANTIC—Destroyer Greer (DD-145) rescues 24
survivors of U.S. freighter Robin Hood, sunk on 15 April by German
submarine U-575, and transports them to Hamilton, Bermuda.
Destroyer Rowan
(DD-405) rescues surviving crew and passengers from U.S. freighter San
Jacinto, torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-201 on 21 April.
U.S.
tanker Connecticut, bound for Cape Town, South Africa, is torpedoed by
German motor torpedo boat LS 4 (Esan), from auxiliary cruiser Michel,
in the South Atlantic, 23°00'S, 15°00'W. The second torpedo ignites the
84,200 barrels of gasoline, airplane engine and heating oils that Connecticut
is carrying as cargo; the ensuing inferno engulfs two lifeboats as the crew
abandons the burning ship. Michel picks up the survivors, who will
subsequently be transferred to a supply ship and thence to POW camp at Fukuoka,
Japan.
U.S.
freighter Lammont Du Pont, bound for New York, is torpedoed by German
submarine U-125 at 27°10'N,57°10'W; four men perish from among the
combined 46 man merchant complement and the 9 man Armed Guard (see25 April and
16 May).
US ARMY AIR FORCE
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US ARMY
BURMA—Chinese 200th Division,
reinforced, of 5th Army engages enemy W of Taunggyi. Japanese seize Loilem.
Chinese 6th Army retires into China.
UNITED KINGDOM—Germans begin series of retaliation air attacks
on cathedral cities, the first occurring night 23–24 against Exeter.
US MARINE CORPS
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