US NAVY
PACIFIC—Submarine bases at Kodiak and Dutch Harbor, Alaska,
and naval air station at Barbers Point, Oahu, T.H., are established.
Last
remaining motor torpedo boat in the Philippines, PT-41, her torpedoes
expended and lacking gasoline to operate, is transferred to the Army to be
moved overland to Lake Lanao. She is slated for service as a machine gun boat.
The rapid Japanese advance across Mindanao, however, compels the Army to
destroy PT-41 to prevent her capture.
ATLANTIC—Unarmed U.S. freighter Robin Hood, en route
to Boston, Massachusetts from Trinidad, B.W.I., is torpedoed and sunk by German
submarine U-575 about 300 miles off Nantucket, 38°39'N, 66°38'W; three
merchant sailors perish in the torpedo explosion while 11 men go down with the
ship (see 23 April).
US ARMY AIR FORCE
EIGHTH AF—HQ of VIII Bomber Command established in Wycombe
Abbey, in High Wycombe by General Eaker.
US ARMY
BURMA—Japanese
continue to press northward and are bypassing Burma 1st Division.
UNITED KINGDOM—General Eaker establishes hq of U.S. Bomber
Command at High Wycombe. U.S. Eighth Air Force, which was originally to have
supported GYMNAST, is now committed to U.K. instead.
US MARINE CORPS
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